Genesis 1:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

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  • Heb 6:7 : 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:
  • Matt 6:30 : 30 But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?
  • Gen 1:29 : 29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
  • Ps 104:14-17 : 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart. 16 The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting; 17 Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
  • Ps 147:8 : 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Gen 2:16 : 16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
  • Job 28:5 : 5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
  • Matt 7:16-20 : 16 By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit. 18 It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit. 19 Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire. 20 So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.
  • Mark 4:28 : 28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
  • Luke 6:43-44 : 43 For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit. 44 For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.
  • Jas 3:12 : 12 Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

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  • Gen 1:12-15
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    12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

    14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

    15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:24-31
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    24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

    25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

    29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

    30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

    31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10 And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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    8 And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

    9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 1:20-22
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    20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

    21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

    22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

  • Gen 2:4-6
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    4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

    5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

    6 But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

  • Mark 4:28
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    28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • Gen 1:3-4
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    3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

  • Gen 3:18
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    18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

  • Ps 104:14
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    14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    7 And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

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    17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

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    19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:15-16
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    15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

    16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

  • Gen 1:17-18
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    17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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    1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

  • Gen 1:1
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    1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

    6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

  • Ps 80:9
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    9 You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • Gen 9:7
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    7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

  • Eccl 2:5
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    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

  • 1 Cor 15:38
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    38 But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

  • Deut 22:9
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    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Lev 26:4
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    4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

  • Job 38:27
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    27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

  • Gen 8:22
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    22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.