Genesis 1:24

God said, “Let the earth produce nefesh chai ·soul living· creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

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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 evening and there was morning, a fifth 'yom ·period of time, day·. (A:3)

25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. + 1:25 Day 6a: God populates the earth with creatures that possess a nefesh chai ·soul living·. God creates various plants to populate the earth. God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Psalms 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall, 2 nor male goats from your pens. 1

Psalms 104:23Man goes out to his work, 2 to his labor until the evening. 1

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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