Genesis 1:22-24

International Standard Version

²²God blessed them by saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the oceans. Let the birds multiply throughout the earth!” ²³The twilight and the dawn were the fifth day.

²⁴Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature, each kind of livestock and crawling thing, and each kind of earth’s animals!”^[a] And that is what happened:^[b]

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Footnotes

Genesis 1:24 I.e., non-domesticated animals, as opposed to domesticated livestock; and so through 2:25
Genesis 1:24 Lit. And so it was

Genesis 1:22-24

New International Version

²²God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”^(A) ²³And there was evening, and there was morning^(B)—the fifth day.

²⁴And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures^(C) according to their kinds:^(D) the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.^(E)

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Genesis 1:22-24

New King James Version

²²And God blessed them, saying, ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ²³So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so.

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