Genesis 1:24

Then God said, “Let the earth produce all kinds of living creatures: cattle and reptiles and wild beasts.” It was so.

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In The King James Version

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

In Context

23There was an evening and a morning, making the fifth day.

25So God made all the different kinds of wild beasts, and the cattle, and everything that crawls upon the ground. God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14every type of animal, and cattle, and creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and bird

Psalms 50:9Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;

Psalms 104:23Then people go forth to their work, and toil till evening.

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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