Genesis 1:21-23
Living Bible
21-22 So God created great sea animals, and every sort of fish and every kind of bird. And God looked at them with pleasure, and blessed them all. “Multiply and stock the oceans,” he told them, and to the birds he said, “Let your numbers increase. Fill the earth!” 23 That ended the fifth day.[a]
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- Genesis 1:23 That ended the fifth day, literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day (or ‘period of time’).”
Genesis 1:21-23
New International Version
21 So God created(A) the great creatures of the sea(B) and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it,(C) according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.(D) And God saw that it was good.(E) 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”(F) 23 And there was evening, and there was morning(G)—the fifth day.
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