19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the [a]man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:19 By moving them to come and submit themselves to Adam.

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals(A) and all the birds in the sky.(B) He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called(C) each living creature,(D) that was its name.

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