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There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
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A New Kind of Creation
The fifth day marks a pivotal moment. Commentators note that the Bible uses the special word for "create" (bara) here for the first time since Genesis 1:1. This highlights that animal life—described as "living, breathing" beings—was a completely new and distinct work of God, different from the formation of the inanimate world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁרץ shārats — “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, however, it admits an objective noun of its own or a …
19th Century
Anglican
The fifth day. —Upon the work of the first four days, geology is virtually silent, and the theories regarding the physical formati…
Baptist
There was no life in the sea or on the land until all was ready for it. God would not make a creature to be unhappy. There must be suitable food to…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day . ] The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day befo…
God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and a…
