Genesis 1:21

God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of living, moving creatures with which the waters teem, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good.

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And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

In Context

20Then God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open dome of the sky.”

22He blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, increase, fill the oceans, and let the birds increase on the land.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:18to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31When God saw all that he had made, he perceived that it was very good. There was an evening and a morning, making the sixth day.

Genesis 6:20birds, animals and creeping things, so that they might be kept alive.

Genesis 8:17Bring out every living creature, every bird, cattle, and creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they can spread over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply.”

Genesis 9:7But you are to bear children and repopulate the whole earth and subdue it.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:21-24

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the… Read the whole commentary →

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