Genesis 1:20
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Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." (NASB ©1995)

Genesis 1:19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 1:21 God created the 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. (NASB ©1995)


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.

Let the waters. 22 2:19 8:17 Ps 104:24,25 148:10 Ac 17:25

moving. or, creeping. 1Ki 4:33

life. Heb. a living soul. 30 Ec 2:21

fowl that may fly. Heb. let fowl fly. This marginal reading is more conformable to the original, and reconciles this passage with ch. 2:19. The word fowl, from the Saxon fleon, to fly, exactly corresponds to the original, which denotes every thing that flies, whether bird or insect.

open firmament. Heb. face of the firmament. 7,14

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