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Genesis 1:20

Creation

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

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

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 earth.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
KJV
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.
WEB
God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
ASV
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
DARBY
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.
BLB
And God said, “Let the waters swarm [with] a swarm of living souls, and let the bird fly above the earth, on the face of the firmament of the heavens.”
ÅB
Og Gud sa: Det vrimle av liv i vannet, og fugler fly over jorden under himmelhvelvingen!
OTB
Og Gud sa: "La vannene vrimle med levende skapninger, og la fugler fly over jorden på himmelens hvelving."
B1930
Og Gud sa: Det vrimle av liv i vannet, og fugler flyve over jorden under himmelhvelvingen!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 104:24–25

    O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

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  • Genesis 2:19

    And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

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  • 1 Kings 4:33

    And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

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  • Psalms 148:10

    Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

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  • Genesis 1:30

    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.

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  • Genesis 8:17

    Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

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  • Genesis 1:7

    And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

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  • Genesis 1:22

    And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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