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Genesis 1:21

And God created the great sea-monsters,—and every living soul that moveth—[with] which the waters swarmed after their kind and every winged bird—after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20And God said—Let the waters swarm with an abundance of living soul, and, birds, shall fly over the earth, over the face of the expanse of the heavens.

22And God blessed them, saying,—Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let, the birds, multiply in the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing which he had made, and lo! it was very good. So it was evening—and it was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 6:20Of the bird after its kind and of the beast after its kind, [and] of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each, shall come in unto thee. for keeping alive.

Genesis 8:17All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh among birds, and among beasts, and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring forth with thee,—and they shall swarm in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply, on the earth.

Genesis 9:7Ye, therefore, be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth and multiply therein.

Exodus 8:3so shall the river swarm with frogs, and they shall come up, and enter into thy house, and into thy bedchamber and upon thy couch,—and into the house of thy servants and among thy people, and into thine ovens and into thy kneading-troughs:

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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