Genesis 1:31

And 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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

30and to every living thing of the land—and to every bird of the heavens, and to every thing that moveth on the land, wherein is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening—and it was morning, a, second day.

Genesis 1:19So it was evening—and it was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 2:2Thus God finished, on the seventh day his work which he had made, and rested, on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made.

Exodus 20:11For, in six days, did Yahweh make the heavens and the earth, [and] the sea—and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day,—for this cause, Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

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

Psalms 104:24How thy works abound, O Yahweh! All of them—in wisdom, hast thou made, The earth is full of thy possession:—

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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