Genesis 1:21

Good News Translation

So God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of creatures that live in the water, and all kinds of birds. And God was pleased with what he saw.

Cross References

Genesis 1:18

to rule over the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God was pleased with what he saw.

Genesis 1:20

Then God commanded, “Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds.”

Genesis 1:22

He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.

Genesis 1:25

So God made them all, and he was pleased with what he saw.

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came—that was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:19

So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names.

Genesis 7:14

With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird.

Genesis 8:17

Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth.”

Genesis 8:19

All the animals and birds went out of the boat in groups of their own kind.

Genesis 9:2

All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power.

Genesis 9:7

“You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.”

Job 12:7

Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;

Job 26:5

The spirits of the dead tremble in the waters under the earth.

Job 7:12

Why do you keep me under guard? Do you think I am a sea monster?

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, sea monsters and all ocean depths;

Exodus 1:7

but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will be so full of frogs that they will leave it and go into your palace, your bedroom, your bed, the houses of your officials and your people, and even into your ovens and baking pans.

Ezekiel 32:2

“Mortal man,” he said, “give a solemn warning to the king of Egypt. Give him this message from me: You act like a lion among the nations, but you are more like a crocodile splashing through a river. You muddy the water with your feet and pollute the rivers.

Jonah 1:17

At the Lord's command a large fish swallowed Jonah, and he was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

Jonah 2:10

Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah up on the beach, and it did.

Matthew 12:40

In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.