Genesis 1:31

When 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.

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And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

In Context

30and to every wild beast and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that crawls on the earth – everything with the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8God called the dome the ‘sky’. There was an evening and a morning, making the second day.

Genesis 1:19There was an evening and a morning, making the fourth day.

Genesis 2:2When on the seventh day God finished the work which he had done, he rested that day from all his work.

Psalms 104:24How many, O Lord, are your works, all of them made in wisdom! The earth is filled with your creatures.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:30-31

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. We have here the third part of the sixth day's work, which was not any new creation, but a… Read the whole commentary →

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