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Genesis 1:21 KJV
Genesis · chapter 1 · verse 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.Genesis 1:21 · King James Version
Genesis 1:21 in context
19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20And 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.
21And 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.
22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- abundantlyshâratsto wriggleH8317 →
- creaturenepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
- createdbârâʼto createH1254 →
- whalestannîyna marine or land monsterH8577 →
- livingchayaliveH2416 →
- movethrâmasproperly, to glide swiftlyH7430 →
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Each day, hitherto, has produced very noble and excellent beings, which we can never sufficiently admire; but we do not read of the creation of any living creature till the fifth day, of which these verses give us an account.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-23