Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that he had made. Behold, it was very good. This was evening and morning, 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.

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30To every beast of the earth, to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, and to every creature that has the breath of life I have given every green plant for food.” It was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8God called the expanse “sky.” This was evening and morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:19This was evening and morning, the fourth day.

Genesis 2:2On the seventh day God came to the end of his work which he had done, and so he rested on the seventh day from all his work.

Exodus 20:11For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and earth, the sea, and everything that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.

Job 38:7when the morning stars sang together 1 and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 1

Psalms 104:24Yahweh, how many and varied are your works! 1 With wisdom you made them all; 1 the earth overflows with your works. 1

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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