Genesis 1:20

Modern English Version

Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures and let the birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:14

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons, and days, and years.

Genesis 1:19

So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:21

So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:22

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

Genesis 1:30

To every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth which has the breath of life in it, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:7

So God made the expanse and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.

Genesis 2:19

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 7:21

All flesh that moved on the earth died: birds and livestock and beasts, and every creeping thing that crept on the earth, and every man.

Genesis 8:17

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

1 Kings 4:33

He spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springs out of the wall. He also spoke of beasts and of fowl and of insects and fish.

Job 12:9

Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

Psalm 148:10

beasts and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl;

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For there is a person who labors with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet to a person who did not labor for this, he leaves it as his inheritance. This also is vanity and a great distress.

Leviticus 11:42

Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet from any crawling things that move on the earth, you shall not eat them for they are detestable.

Leviticus 11:43

You shall not make yourselves detestable with any crawling thing that moves, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should thereby be defiled by them.

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives all men life and breath and all things.