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God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
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God's Direct Handiwork
Commentators emphasize that the text says "God made" the animals. This highlights that creation was not a product of mere natural forces or latent powers within the earth, but the direct, omnipotent act of God. Every creature was intentionally formed by its Creator.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
24. בהמה behēmâh — “cattle; dumb, tame beasts.”
רמשׂ remeś — “creeping (small or low) animals…
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.
Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Ge…
Baptist
There is as much wisdom and care displayed in the creation of the tiniest creeping insect as in the creation of leviathan himself.
Those who…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind The wild beasts, and the several sorts of them; beginning the acc…
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…
