Genesis 1
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 1:20-30

20Then God said, “Let the waters 1teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth 2in the open 3expanse of the heavens.” 21God created 4the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

245Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after 6their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after 7their kind”; and it was so. 25God made the 8beasts of the earth after 9their kind, and the cattle after 10their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

26Then God said, “Let 11Us make 12man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them 13rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 14sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27God created man 15in His own image, in the image of God He created him; 16male and female He created them. 28God blessed them; and God said to them, “17Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 18sky and over every living thing that 19moves on the earth.” 29Then God said, “Behold, 20I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the 21surface of all the earth, and every tree 22which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30and 23to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the 24sky and to every thing that 25moves on the earth 26which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 1:20 Or swarm ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 1:20 Lit on the face of ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 1:20 Or firmament ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 1:21 Ps 104:25-28 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 1:24 Gen 2:19; 6:20; 7:14; 8:19 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 1:24 Lit its ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 1:24 Lit its ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 1:25 Gen 7:21, 22; Jer 27:5 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 1:25 Lit its ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 1:25 Lit its ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 1:26 Gen 3:22; 11:7 ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 1:26 Gen 5:1; 9:6; 1 Cor 11:7; Eph 4:24; James 3:9 ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 1:26 Ps 8:6-8 ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 1:26 Lit heavens ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 1:27 Gen 5:1f; 1 Cor 11:7; Eph 4:24; Col 3:10 ↩
  16. 16. Genesis 1:27 Matt 19:4; Mark 10:6 ↩
  17. 17. Genesis 1:28 Gen 9:1, 7; Lev 26:9; Ps 127:3, 5 ↩
  18. 18. Genesis 1:28 Lit heavens ↩
  19. 19. Genesis 1:28 Or creeps ↩
  20. 20. Genesis 1:29 Ps 104:14; 136:25 ↩
  21. 21. Genesis 1:29 Lit face of ↩
  22. 22. Genesis 1:29 Lit in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ↩
  23. 23. Genesis 1:30 Ps 145:15, 16; 147:9 ↩
  24. 24. Genesis 1:30 Lit heavens ↩
  25. 25. Genesis 1:30 Or creeps ↩
  26. 26. Genesis 1:30 Lit in which is a living soul ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 1

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