Genesis 1:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

Common English Bible

²¹ God created the great sea animals and all the tiny living things that swarm in the waters, each according to its kind, and all the winged birds, each according to its kind. God saw how good it was.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And God created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21 Cross References

Genesis 1:18

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

Genesis 1:20

And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.”

Genesis 1:22

And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1:25

And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 2:19

So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 6:20

Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 7:14

they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 8:17

Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”

Genesis 8:19

And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.

Genesis 9:2

The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

Genesis 9:7

And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it.”

Job 12:7

“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

Job 26:5

The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.

Job 7:12

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps,

Exodus 1:7

But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 8:3

the Nile shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house, and into your bedchamber and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and of your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls;

Ezekiel 32:2

“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

Jonah 1:17

And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 2:10

And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.