Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

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In The King James Version

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

30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 1:19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 2:2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Exodus 20:11for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

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

Psalms 104:24LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

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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