Genesis 1:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Then God said: Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky.

Cross References

Genesis 1:14

Then God said: Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the seasons, the days and the years,

Genesis 1:19

Evening came, and morning followed—the fourth day.

Genesis 1:21

God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good,

Genesis 1:22

and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.

Genesis 1:30

and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food. And so it happened.

Genesis 1:7

God made the dome, and it separated the water below the dome from the water above the dome. And so it happened.

Genesis 2:19

So the Lord God formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each living creature was then its name.

Genesis 7:21

All creatures that moved on earth perished: birds, tame animals, wild animals, and all that teemed on the earth, as well as all humankind.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you—all creatures, be they birds or animals or crawling things that crawl on the earth—and let them abound on the earth, and be fertile and multiply on it.

Job 12:9

Which of all these does not know that the hand of God has done this?

Psalm 148:10

Animals wild and tame, creatures that crawl and birds that fly;

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For here is one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and that one’s legacy must be left to another who has not toiled for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Leviticus 11:42

Whether it crawls on its belly, goes on all fours, or has many legs—any creature that swarms on the earth—you shall not eat them; they are loathsome.

Leviticus 11:43

Do not make yourselves loathsome by any swarming creature nor defile yourselves with them and so become unclean by them.

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.