Genesis 1:24

And God saith, 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

23and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day fifth.

25And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird — every wing.

Job 38:39Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?

Job 39:5Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?

Job 39:19Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck [with] a mane?

Psalms 50:9I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.

Psalms 104:23Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service — till evening.

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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