Genesis 1:20

God's Word

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with swimming creatures, and let birds fly through the sky over the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:14

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the night. They will be signs and will mark religious festivals, days, and years.

Genesis 1:19

There was evening, then morning—a fourth day.

Genesis 1:21

So God created the large sea creatures, every type of creature that swims around in the water and every type of flying bird. God saw that they were good.

Genesis 1:22

God blessed them and said, “Be fertile, increase in number, fill the sea, and let there be many birds on the earth.”

Genesis 1:30

I have given all green plants as food to every land animal, every bird in the sky, and every animal that crawls on the earth—every living, breathing animal.” And so it was.

Genesis 1:7

So God made the horizon and separated the water above and below the horizon. And so it was.

Genesis 2:19

The Lord God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds out of the ground. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each creature became its name.

Genesis 7:21

Every creature that crawls on the earth died, including birds, domestic and wild animals, and everything that swarms over the earth, along with every human.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out every animal that’s with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth.”

1 Kings 4:33

He described and classified trees—from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He described and classified animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

Job 12:9

What creature doesn’t know that the Lord’s hands made it?

Psalm 148:10

wild animals and all domestic animals, crawling animals and birds,

Ecclesiastes 2:21

Here is someone who had worked hard with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet, he must turn over his estate to someone else, who didn’t work for it. Even this is pointless and a terrible tragedy.

Leviticus 11:42

Don’t eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting.

Leviticus 11:43

Don’t become disgusting by eating anything that swarms on the ground. Never allow yourselves to become unclean because of them.

Acts 17:25

and he isn’t served by humans as if he needed anything. He gives everyone life, breath, and everything they have.