Genesis 1:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 104:24-26 : 24 O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made. 25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. 26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
  • Gen 1:25 : 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.
  • Gen 1:31 : 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 6:20 : 20 Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
  • Gen 7:14 : 14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
  • Gen 8:17 : 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.
  • Gen 8:19 : 19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.
  • Gen 9:7 : 7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
  • Exod 8:3 : 3 The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
  • Job 26:5 : 5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.
  • Jonah 2:10 : 10 But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.
  • Matt 12:40 : 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
  • Gen 1:18 : 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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  • Gen 1:20
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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.

  • Gen 1:22-28
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    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.

    23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

    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.

  • Gen 1:9-12
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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.

    11 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.

    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.

  • Ps 104:25-26
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    25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

    26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

  • Gen 7:14
    77%

    14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

  • Gen 2:19
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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 1:30-31
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    74%

    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 8:19
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    19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

    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.

  • Gen 6:20
    73%

    20 Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

  • Ps 8:8
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    8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

  • Gen 9:10
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    10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

  • Lev 11:46
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    46 This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

  • Gen 8:17
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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.

  • Gen 7:21
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    21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

  • Deut 4:17-18
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    17 Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,

    18 Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.

  • Gen 1:15-18
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    15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

    16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

    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.

  • Gen 1:1-4
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    1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

    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 9:1-2
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    71%

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

    2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

  • Gen 7:8
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    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

  • Gen 8:1
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    1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

  • Acts 10:12
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    12 In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.

  • Lev 11:10
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    10 All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;

  • Lev 11:15
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    15 Every raven, and birds of that sort;

  • Ezek 1:23
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    23 Under the arch their wings were straight, one stretched out to another: every one had two wings covering their bodies on this side and two covering their bodies on that side.

  • Ps 148:7
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    7 Give praise to the Lord from the earth, you great sea-beasts, and deep places:

  • 1 Cor 15:39
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    39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.