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And God saw that it was good. <a href="/nlt/genesis/1.htm">New Living Translation</a> So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/esv/genesis/1.htm">English Standard Version</a> So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/bsb/genesis/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/kjv/genesis/1.htm">King James Bible</a> And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. <a href="/nkjv/genesis/1.htm">New King James Version</a> So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/nasb_/genesis/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good. <a href="/nasb/genesis/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. <a href="/nasb77/genesis/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. <a href="/lsb/genesis/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. <a href="/amp/genesis/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it. <a href="/csb/genesis/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/hcsb/genesis/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/asv/genesis/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. <a href="/cev/genesis/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> So God made the giant sea monsters and all the living creatures that swim in the ocean. He also made every kind of bird. God looked at what he had done, and it was good. <a href="/erv/genesis/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good. <a href="/gwt/genesis/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> So God created the large sea creatures, every type of creature that swims around in the water and every type of flying bird. God saw that they were good. <a href="/gnt/genesis/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> So God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of creatures that live in the water, and all kinds of birds. And God was pleased with what he saw. <a href="/isv/genesis/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> So God created every kind of magnificent marine creature, every kind of living marine crawler with which the waters swarmed, and every kind of flying creature. And God saw how good it was. <a href="/msb/genesis/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/net/genesis/1.htm">NET Bible</a> God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good. <a href="/nheb/genesis/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> And God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged flying creature after its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/wbt/genesis/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. <a href="/web/genesis/1.htm">World English Bible</a> God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/genesis/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And God creates the great dragons, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every bird with wing, after its kind, and God sees that [it is] good. <a href="/ylt/genesis/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good. <a href="/slt/genesis/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And God will form great sea monsters and every living soul creeping, which the waters bred abundantly according to their kind, and every bird of wing according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/genesis/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/cpdv/genesis/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And God created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/nabre/genesis/1.htm">New American Bible</a> God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good, <a href="/nrsvce/genesis/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/genesis/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And God created great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. <a href="/hpbt/genesis/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And God created the great Dragon and every living soul, swarmers that made the waters swarm with their kinds, and every bird of the wing with its kind, and God saw that it was beautiful.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/genesis/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. <a href="/sep/genesis/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good. <a href="/parallel/genesis/1-21.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=165" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/genesis/1.htm">The Fifth Day</a> …20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” 21<a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">So</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">God</a> <a href="/hebrew/1254.htm" title="1254: way·yiḇ·rā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To create, to cut down, select, feed. A primitive root; to create; to cut down, select, feed.">created</a> <a href="/hebrew/1419.htm" title="1419: hag·gə·ḏō·lîm (Art:: Adj-mp) -- Great. Or gadol; from gadal; great; hence, older; also insolent.">the great</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’êṯ (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8577.htm" title="8577: hat·tan·nî·nim (Art:: N-mp) -- Serpent, dragon, sea monster. Or tanniym; intensive from the same as tan; a marine or land monster, i.e. Sea-serpent or jackal.">sea creatures</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">and every</a> <a href="/hebrew/2416.htm" title="2416: ha·ḥay·yāh (Art:: Adj-fs) -- Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life. From chayah; alive; hence, raw; fresh, strong; also life, whether literally or figuratively.">living</a> <a href="/hebrew/5315.htm" title="5315: ne·p̄eš (N-fs) -- From naphash; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. Animal of vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense.">thing</a> <a href="/hebrew/7430.htm" title="7430: hā·rō·me·śeṯ (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. To crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm.">that moves,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">with which</a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ham·ma·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">the waters</a> <a href="/hebrew/8317.htm" title="8317: šā·rə·ṣū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To swarm, teem. A primitive root; to wriggle, i.e. swarm or abound.">teemed</a> <a href="/hebrew/4327.htm" title="4327: lə·mî·nê·hem (Prep-l:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Kind, species. From an unused root meaning to portion out; a sort, i.e. Species.">according to their kinds,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’êṯ (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">every</a> <a href="/hebrew/5775.htm" title="5775: ‘ō·wp̄ (N-ms) -- Flying creatures. From uwph; a bird, often collectively.">bird</a> <a href="/hebrew/3671.htm" title="3671: kā·nāp̄ (N-fs) -- Wing, extremity. From kanaph; an edge or extremity; specifically a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle.">of flight</a> <a href="/hebrew/4327.htm" title="4327: lə·mî·nê·hū (Prep-l:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- Kind, species. From an unused root meaning to portion out; a sort, i.e. Species.">after its kind.</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">And God</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: way·yar (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">saw</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/2896.htm" title="2896: ṭō·wḇ (Adj-ms) -- Pleasant, agreeable, good.">it was good.</a> 22Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/psalms/104-24.htm">Psalm 104:24-25</a> How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. / Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small. <a href="/job/12-7.htm">Job 12:7-10</a> But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. / Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. / Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? ... <a href="/psalms/148-5.htm">Psalm 148:5-7</a> Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created. / He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away. / Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths, <a href="/isaiah/45-18.htm">Isaiah 45:18</a> For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other. <a href="/nehemiah/9-6.htm">Nehemiah 9:6</a> You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You. <a href="/job/26-13.htm">Job 26:13</a> By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. <a href="/psalms/33-6.htm">Psalm 33:6-9</a> By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth. / He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses. / Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him. ... <a href="/psalms/136-25.htm">Psalm 136:25</a> He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever. <a href="/psalms/146-6.htm">Psalm 146:6</a> the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever. <a href="/jeremiah/51-15.htm">Jeremiah 51:15</a> The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding. <a href="/acts/17-24.htm">Acts 17:24-25</a> The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. / Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. <a href="/romans/1-20.htm">Romans 1:20</a> For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. <a href="/colossians/1-16.htm">Colossians 1:16</a> For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. <a href="/revelation/4-11.htm">Revelation 4:11</a> “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.” <a href="/john/1-3.htm">John 1:3</a> Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.great.<a href="/genesis/6-20.htm">Genesis 6:20</a> Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.<a href="/genesis/7-14.htm">Genesis 7:14</a> They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.<a href="/genesis/8-19.htm">Genesis 8:19</a> Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.brought.<a href="/genesis/8-17.htm">Genesis 8:17</a> Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.<a href="/genesis/9-7.htm">Genesis 9:7</a> And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.<a href="/exodus/1-7.htm">Exodus 1:7</a> And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.God saw.<a href="/genesis/1-18.htm">Genesis 1:18,25,31</a> And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Abundantly</a> <a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Bird</a> <a href="/genesis/1-1.htm">Created</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Creature</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Creatures</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/4-18.htm">Creepeth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Fowl</a> <a href="/genesis/1-18.htm">Good</a> <a href="/genesis/1-16.htm">Great</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/revelation/21-16.htm">Large</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-9.htm">Moves</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-9.htm">Moveth</a> <a href="/revelation/21-1.htm">Sea</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Swarm</a> <a href="/psalms/118-12.htm">Swarmed</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-29.htm">Wherewith</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-5.htm">Winged</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/8-17.htm">Abundantly</a> <a href="/genesis/1-30.htm">Bird</a> <a href="/genesis/1-27.htm">Created</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Creature</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Creatures</a> <a href="/genesis/1-25.htm">Creepeth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-22.htm">Fowl</a> <a href="/genesis/1-25.htm">Good</a> <a href="/genesis/4-13.htm">Great</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/genesis/30-43.htm">Large</a> <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Moves</a> <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Moveth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-26.htm">Sea</a> <a href="/genesis/7-21.htm">Swarm</a> <a href="/exodus/1-7.htm">Swarmed</a> <a href="/genesis/1-22.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/genesis/9-2.htm">Wherewith</a> <a href="/genesis/3-24.htm">Winged</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 1</div>1. <a href="/genesis/1-1.htm">God creates heaven and earth;</a> 3. <a href="/genesis/1-3.htm">the light;</a> 6. <a href="/genesis/1-6.htm">the firmament;</a> 9. <a href="/genesis/1-9.htm">separates the dry land;</a> 14. <a href="/genesis/1-14.htm">forms the sun, moon, and stars;</a> 20. <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">fishes and fowls;</a> 24. <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">cattle, wild beasts, and creeping things;</a> 26. <a href="/genesis/1-26.htm">creates man in his own image, blesses him;</a> 29. <a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">grants the fruits of the earth for food.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "great sea creatures" can be understood as large marine animals, possibly including whales and other significant sea life. In ancient Near Eastern cultures, sea creatures often symbolized chaos and were associated with deities. However, in this biblical context, they are part of God's orderly creation, emphasizing His control over all creation. This also sets a foundation for later biblical narratives where God demonstrates His power over the sea, such as in the parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 14).and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds This part of the verse underscores the diversity and abundance of marine life created by God. The phrase "according to their kinds" suggests a natural order and categorization within creation, which is a recurring theme in <a href="/genesis/1.htm">Genesis 1</a>. This orderliness reflects God's intentional design and purpose. The teeming waters symbolize life and fertility, a theme that resonates throughout Scripture, such as in <a href="/psalms/104-25.htm">Psalm 104:25-26</a>, which praises God for the sea's vastness and the creatures within it.and every winged bird after its kind The creation of birds "after its kind" continues the theme of order and diversity. Birds are often seen as symbols of freedom and transcendence, and their creation on the same day as sea creatures highlights the completeness of God's creative work. This phrase also connects to later biblical imagery, such as the dove in the story of Noah (<a href="/genesis/8-8.htm">Genesis 8:8-12</a>) and the birds of the air that Jesus refers to in His teachings (<a href="/matthew/6-26.htm">Matthew 6:26</a>), illustrating God's provision and care.And God saw that it was good This declaration of goodness affirms the perfection and harmony of God's creation. Each act of creation is followed by this divine approval, indicating that everything God made was in accordance with His perfect will and purpose. This phrase sets a standard for understanding the inherent goodness of creation before the fall of man, as described in <a href="/genesis/3.htm">Genesis 3</a>. It also foreshadows the ultimate restoration of creation, as seen in <a href="/revelation/21.htm">Revelation 21:1</a>, where a new heaven and earth are established.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The Creator, who is actively involved in the creation of the world and all living creatures. 2. <a href="/topical/g/great_sea_creatures.htm">Great Sea Creatures</a> Refers to large marine animals, possibly including whales and other significant sea life, created by God. 3. <a href="/topical/l/living_things_that_move.htm">Living Things that Move</a> Encompasses all aquatic life, from the smallest fish to the largest sea creatures, created according to their kinds. 4. <a href="/topical/w/winged_birds.htm">Winged Birds</a> All avian life, created according to their kinds, showcasing the diversity and creativity of God. 5. <a href="/topical/c/creation_event.htm">Creation Event</a> The specific act of God creating marine and avian life on the fifth day of creation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_creation.htm">God's Sovereignty in Creation</a> Recognize that God is the ultimate Creator, who designed and brought into existence all forms of life with purpose and order. <a href="/topical/d/diversity_and_order_in_creation.htm">Diversity and Order in Creation</a> Appreciate the diversity of life as a reflection of God's creativity and intentional design, each according to its kind. <a href="/topical/g/god's_approval_of_his_creation.htm">God's Approval of His Creation</a> Understand that God saw His creation as good, which calls us to value and steward the natural world responsibly. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_provision.htm">Trust in God's Provision</a> Just as God provides for the sea creatures and birds, we can trust Him to meet our needs, encouraging us to live without anxiety. <a href="/topical/r/reflection_of_god's_glory.htm">Reflection of God's Glory</a> Creation reflects God's glory and majesty, inviting us to worship Him and acknowledge His greatness in all things.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(21) God created great whales.--Whales, strictly speaking, are mammals, and belong to the creation of the sixth day. But tannin, the word used here, means any long creature, and is used of serpents in <a href="/context/exodus/7-9.htm" title="When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then you shall say to Aaron, Take your rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.">Exodus 7:9-10</a> (where, however, it may mean a crocodile), and in <a href="/deuteronomy/32-33.htm" title="Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.">Deuteronomy 32:33</a>; of the crocodile in <a href="/psalms/74-13.htm" title="You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.">Psalm 74:13</a>, <a href="/isaiah/51-9.htm" title="Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?">Isaiah 51:9</a>, <a href="/ezekiel/29-3.htm" title="Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the middle of his rivers, which has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.">Ezekiel 29:3</a>; and of sea monsters generally in <a href="/job/7-12.htm" title="Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?">Job 7:12</a>. It thus appropriately marks the great Saurian age. The use, too, of the verb bara, "he created," is no argument against its meaning to produce out of nothing, because it belongs not to these monsters, which may have been "evolved," but to the whole verse, which describes the introduction of animal life; and this is one of the special creative acts which physical science acknowledges to be outside its domain. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 21. - And God created (bara, is in ver. 1, to indicate the introduction of an absolutely new thing, viz., the principle of animal life) great whales. Tanninim, from tanan; Greek, τείνω; Latin, tendo; Sansc., tan, to stretch. These were the first of the two classes into which the sheretzim of the previous verse were divided. The word is used of serpents (<a href="/exodus/7-9.htm">Exodus 7:9</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/32-33.htm">Deuteronomy 32:33</a>; <a href="/psalms/91-13.htm">Psalm 91:13</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/51-34.htm">Jeremiah 51:34</a>), of the crocodile (<a href="/ezekiel/29-3.htm">Ezekiel 29:3</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/32-2.htm">Ezekiel 32:2</a>), and may therefore here describe "great sea monsters" in general: τὰ κ´τη τὰ μεγάλα (LXX.); "monstrous crawlers that wriggle through the water or scud along the banks (Murphy); whales, crocodiles, and other sea monsters (Delitzsch); gigantic aquatic and amphibious reptiles (Kalisch, Macdonald). And every living creature (nephesh chayyah) which moveth. Literally, the moving, from ramas, to move or creep. This is the second class of sheretzim. The term remes is specially descriptive. of creeping animals (<a href="/genesis/9-2.htm">Genesis 9:2</a>), either on land (<a href="/genesis/7-14.htm">Genesis 7:14</a>) or in water (<a href="/psalms/69-35.htm">Psalm 69:35</a>), though here it clearly signifies aquatic tribes. Which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind. The generic terms are thus seen to include many distinct orders and species, created each after its kind. And every winged fowl after his kind. Why fowls and fish were created on the same day is rot to be explained by any supposed similarity between the air and the water (Luther, Lyra, Calvin. etc. or any fancied resemblance between the bodily organisms of birds and fishes, but by the circumstance that the firmament and the waters were separated on the second day, to which it was designed that this day should have a correspondence. And God saw that it was good. As in every other instance, the productions of this day approve themselves to the Divine Creator's judgment; but on this day he marks his complacency by a step which he takes for the first time, viz., that of pronouncing a benediction on the newly-created tribes. Nothing could more evince the importance which, in the Creator's judgment, attached to this day's work. <a href="/commentaries/genesis/1-21.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>So אֶת־ (’eṯ-) Direct object marker <a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> Untranslatable mark of the accusative case God אֱלֹהִ֔ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative created וַיִּבְרָ֣א (way·yiḇ·rā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1254.htm">Strong's 1254: </a> To create, to cut down, select, feed the great הַגְּדֹלִ֑ים (hag·gə·ḏō·lîm) Article | Adjective - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1419.htm">Strong's 1419: </a> Great, older, insolent sea creatures הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם (hat·tan·nî·nim) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8577.htm">Strong's 8577: </a> A marine, land monster, sea-serpent, jackal and every כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every living הַֽחַיָּ֣ה ׀ (ha·ḥay·yāh) Article | Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2416.htm">Strong's 2416: </a> Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life thing נֶ֣פֶשׁ (ne·p̄eš) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5315.htm">Strong's 5315: </a> A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion that moves, הָֽרֹמֶ֡שֶׂת (hā·rō·me·śeṯ) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7430.htm">Strong's 7430: </a> To glide swiftly, to crawl, move with short steps, to swarm [with] which אֲשֶׁר֩ (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that the waters הַמַּ֜יִם (ham·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> Water, juice, urine, semen teemed שָׁרְצ֨וּ (šā·rə·ṣū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8317.htm">Strong's 8317: </a> To wriggle, swarm, abound according to their kinds, לְמִֽינֵהֶ֗ם (lə·mî·nê·hem) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4327.htm">Strong's 4327: </a> A sort, species and וְאֵ֨ת (wə·’êṯ) Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker <a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> Untranslatable mark of the accusative case every כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every bird ע֤וֹף (‘ō·wp̄) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5775.htm">Strong's 5775: </a> Flying creatures of flight כָּנָף֙ (kā·nāp̄) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3671.htm">Strong's 3671: </a> An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle after its kind. לְמִינֵ֔הוּ (lə·mî·nê·hū) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4327.htm">Strong's 4327: </a> A sort, species And God אֱלֹהִ֖ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative saw וַיַּ֥רְא (way·yar) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see that כִּי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction [it was] good. טֽוֹב׃ (ṭō·wḇ) Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2896.htm">Strong's 2896: </a> Pleasant, agreeable, good <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/genesis/1-21.htm">Genesis 1:21 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/genesis/1-21.htm">OT Law: Genesis 1:21 God created the large sea creatures (Gen. 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