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15 “Take a look at Behemoth,[a]
    which I made, just as I made you.
    It eats grass like an ox.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:15 The identification of Behemoth is disputed, ranging from an earthly creature to a mythical sea monster in ancient literature.

14 You cause grass to grow for the livestock
    and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—

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20 The mountains offer it their best food,
    where all the wild animals play.

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24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened. 25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings[a] in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,[b] and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:26a Or man; Hebrew reads adam.
  2. 1:26b As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads all the earth.

The mountains are its pastureland,
    where it searches for every blade of grass.

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