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These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened. <a href="/esv/genesis/1.htm">English Standard Version</a> And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. <a href="/bsb/genesis/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. <a href="/kjv/genesis/1.htm">King James Bible</a> And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. <a href="/nkjv/genesis/1.htm">New King James Version</a> Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. <a href="/nasb_/genesis/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. <a href="/nasb/genesis/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then God said, &#8220Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. <a href="/nasb77/genesis/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with seed in them, on the earth”; and it was so. <a href="/lsb/genesis/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. <a href="/amp/genesis/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> So God said, “Let the earth sprout [tender] vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth”; and it was so. <a href="/csb/genesis/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so. <a href="/hcsb/genesis/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Then God said, &#8220Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.&#8221 And it was so. <a href="/asv/genesis/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. <a href="/cev/genesis/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> God said, "I command the earth to produce all kinds of plants, including fruit trees and grain." And that's what happened. <a href="/erv/genesis/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. <a href="/gwt/genesis/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Then God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation: plants bearing seeds, each according to its own type, and fruit trees bearing fruit with seeds, each according to its own type." And so it was. <a href="/gnt/genesis/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> Then he commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit"--and it was done. <a href="/isv/genesis/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> Then God said, "Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!" And that is what happened: <a href="/net/genesis/1.htm">NET Bible</a> God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so. <a href="/nheb/genesis/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> And God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation, plants yielding seed after its kind, and fruit trees bearing fruit with seed in it after its kind, on the earth." And it was so. <a href="/wbt/genesis/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.<div class="vheading2">Majority Text Translations</div><a href="/msb/genesis/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. <a href="/web/genesis/1.htm">World English Bible</a> God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/genesis/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And God says, “Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth”: and it is so. <a href="/ylt/genesis/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And God saith, 'Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed is in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so. <a href="/slt/genesis/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And God will say the earth shall bring forth the tender grass, and the green herb bearing seed, and the fruit tree making fruit according to its kind, in which is the seed in it upon the earth: and it shall be so.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/genesis/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And he said: Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. <a href="/cpdv/genesis/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And he said, “Let the land spring forth green plants, both those producing seed, and fruit-bearing trees, producing fruit according to their kind, whose seed is within itself, over all the earth.” And so it became. <a href="/nabre/genesis/1.htm">New American Bible</a> Then God said: Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it. And so it happened: <a href="/nrsvce/genesis/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/genesis/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And God said, Let the earth bring forth vegetation, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, wherein is their seed, upon the earth; and it was so. <a href="/hpbt/genesis/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And God said, “The Earth shall bring forth new grass, grass that seeds seed for its kind, and the tree of fruit that makes fruit for its kind, of its planting inside it on the Earth”, and it was in this way.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/genesis/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. <a href="/sep/genesis/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so. <a href="/parallel/genesis/1-11.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=78" 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 Third Day</a> …10God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11<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">Then God</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">said,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">“Let the earth</a> <a href="/hebrew/1876.htm" title="1876: taḏ·šê (V-Hifil-Imperf.Jus-3fs) -- To sprout, shoot, grow green. A primitive root; to sprout.">bring forth</a> <a href="/hebrew/1877.htm" title="1877: de·še (N-ms) -- Grass. From dasha; a sprout; by analogy, grass.">vegetation:</a> <a href="/hebrew/2232.htm" title="2232: maz·rî·a‘ (V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- To sow, scatter seed. A primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify.">seed-bearing</a> <a href="/hebrew/2233.htm" title="2233: ze·ra‘ (N-ms) -- A sowing, seed, offspring. From zara'; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6212.htm" title="6212: ‘ê·śeḇ (N-ms) -- Herb, herbage. From an unused root meaning to glisten; grass.">plants</a> <a href="/hebrew/6529.htm" title="6529: pə·rî (N-ms) -- Fruit. From parah; fruit.">and fruit</a> <a href="/hebrew/6086.htm" title="6086: ‘êṣ (N-msc) -- Tree, trees, wood. From atsah; a tree; hence, wood.">trees,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ō·śeh (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">each bearing</a> <a href="/hebrew/6529.htm" title="6529: pə·rî (N-ms) -- Fruit. From parah; fruit.">fruit</a> <a href="/hebrew/2233.htm" title="2233: zar·‘ōw- (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A sowing, seed, offspring. From zara'; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity.">with seed</a> <a href="/hebrew/4327.htm" title="4327: lə·mî·nōw (Prep-l:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- Kind, species. From an unused root meaning to portion out; a sort, i.e. Species.">according to its kind.”</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."></a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: way·hî- (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">And it was</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">so.</a> 12The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.…<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/104-14.htm">Psalm 104:14</a> He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: <a href="/isaiah/55-10.htm">Isaiah 55:10-11</a> For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, / so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it. <a href="/matthew/6-30.htm">Matthew 6:30</a> If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? <a href="/mark/4-26.htm">Mark 4:26-29</a> Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. / Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how. / All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within. ... <a href="/luke/12-27.htm">Luke 12:27-28</a> Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. / If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith! <a href="/1_corinthians/15-37.htm">1 Corinthians 15:37-38</a> And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else. / But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body. <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Hebrews 6:7</a> For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. <a href="/james/3-12.htm">James 3:12</a> My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. <a href="/revelation/22-2.htm">Revelation 22:2</a> down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. <a href="/job/38-26.htm">Job 38:26-27</a> to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives, / to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass? <a href="/psalms/65-9.htm">Psalm 65:9-13</a> You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth. / You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth. / You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty. ... <a href="/jeremiah/12-4.htm">Jeremiah 12:4</a> How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.” <a href="/ezekiel/34-26.htm">Ezekiel 34:26-27</a> I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing. / The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them. <a href="/hosea/2-21.htm">Hosea 2:21-22</a> “On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth. / And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel. <a href="/joel/2-22.htm">Joel 2:22</a> Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth: and it was so.Let the.<a href="/genesis/2-5.htm">Genesis 2:5</a> And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.<a href="/job/28-5.htm">Job 28:5</a> As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.<a href="/psalms/104-14.htm">Psalm 104:14-17</a> He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; … grass.<a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">Genesis 1:29</a> And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.<a href="/genesis/2-9.htm">Genesis 2:9,16</a> And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil… <a href="/psalms/1-3.htm">Psalm 1:3</a> And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/revelation/13-2.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/revelation/22-2.htm">Bearing</a> <a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/revelation/22-1.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/revelation/22-2.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/20-20.htm">Fruit-Tree</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-5.htm">Fruit-Trees</a> <a href="/revelation/9-4.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/luke/11-42.htm">Herb</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Herbs</a> <a href="/revelation/21-18.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/revelation/18-22.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/revelation/21-5.htm">Making</a> <a href="/james/5-7.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-21.htm">Producing</a> <a href="/revelation/12-17.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">Seed-Bearing</a> <a href="/revelation/11-6.htm">Sort</a> <a href="/revelation/21-6.htm">Spring</a> <a href="/luke/21-30.htm">Sprout</a> <a href="/james/5-11.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/revelation/21-25.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/revelation/22-19.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/revelation/11-4.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/revelation/21-19.htm">Various</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Vegetation</a> <a href="/revelation/18-19.htm">Wherein</a> <a href="/james/3-12.htm">Yield</a> <a href="/revelation/22-2.htm">Yielding</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/3-16.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Bearing</a> <a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/20-20.htm">Fruit-Tree</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-23.htm">Fruit-Trees</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Herb</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Herbs</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/genesis/1-22.htm">Making</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">Producing</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">Seed-Bearing</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Sort</a> <a href="/genesis/16-7.htm">Spring</a> <a href="/numbers/17-5.htm">Sprout</a> <a href="/genesis/18-7.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Various</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Vegetation</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Wherein</a> <a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Yield</a> <a href="/genesis/1-12.htm">Yielding</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 act of speaking creation into existence highlights the divine command and the effortless nature of God's creative work. This aligns with <a href="/john/1.htm">John 1:1-3</a>, where the Word is identified as instrumental in creation, pointing to the pre-incarnate Christ.“Let the earth bring forth vegetation: The command for the earth to produce vegetation indicates the beginning of life on land. This reflects God's design for a self-sustaining ecosystem. The earth's ability to bring forth life is a testament to God's provision and order in creation, setting the stage for the sustenance of all living creatures.seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, The mention of seed-bearing plants and fruit trees underscores the importance of reproduction and continuity in creation. Seeds symbolize potential and future growth, ensuring that life can perpetuate itself. This principle of reproduction is echoed in the parables of Jesus, such as the Parable of the Sower (<a href="/matthew/13.htm">Matthew 13:1-23</a>), where seeds represent the Word of God.each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” The phrase "according to its kind" establishes the principle of fixed species, indicating that each plant and tree reproduces within its own category. This reflects the orderliness of God's creation and counters evolutionary theories of species transformation. It also prefigures the diversity and beauty of creation, which is celebrated in passages like <a href="/psalms/104.htm">Psalm 104</a>.And it was so. This statement confirms the immediate fulfillment of God's command, demonstrating His sovereignty and the effectiveness of His word. The phrase is a recurring affirmation throughout the creation account, emphasizing the reliability and authority of God's decrees. It parallels <a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Isaiah 55:11</a>, where God's word is described as accomplishing what He desires.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The Creator who speaks creation into existence. His authority and power are evident as He commands the earth to bring forth vegetation. 2. <a href="/topical/e/earth.htm">Earth</a> The place where God’s creative work is manifested. It responds to God's command by producing vegetation. 3. <a href="/topical/v/vegetation.htm">Vegetation</a> The first form of plant life created by God, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees. 4. <a href="/topical/s/seed-bearing_plants.htm">Seed-bearing plants</a> Plants that reproduce through seeds, ensuring the continuation of their kind. 5. <a href="/topical/f/fruit_trees.htm">Fruit trees</a> Trees that produce fruit containing seeds, which also ensure the propagation of their species.<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 authority over creation. His word is powerful and effective, bringing life and order. <a href="/topical/t/the_purposeful_design_of_creation.htm">The Purposeful Design of Creation</a> Understand that God created vegetation with a purpose, to sustain life and reproduce according to its kind. This reflects His wisdom and intentionality. <a href="/topical/p/provision_and_sustenance.htm">Provision and Sustenance</a> Trust in God's provision, as He has designed the earth to sustain life. This encourages us to rely on Him for our needs. <a href="/topical/s/stewardship_of_creation.htm">Stewardship of Creation</a> As caretakers of God's creation, we are called to responsibly manage and preserve the environment, reflecting God's care and order. <a href="/topical/t/the_cycle_of_life_and_reproduction.htm">The Cycle of Life and Reproduction</a> Appreciate the natural processes God established, such as seed-bearing and fruit production, which demonstrate His ongoing provision and care.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 1</a> <a href="/q/how_did_day_3_plants_survive_without_sun.htm">How could plants created on Day 3 (Genesis 1:11–13) survive before the sun was made on Day 4 (Genesis 1:14–19)? </a> <a href="/q/what_is_essentialism.htm">What defines the concept of essentialism?</a> <a href="/q/why_do_supernova_rates_fit_an_old_universe.htm">Why does the rate of supernovae match a universe billions of years old?</a> <a href="/q/why_share_60%_of_genes_with_bananas.htm">Why do we share over 60% of our genes with bananas?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) Let the earth bring forth grass.--This is the second creative act. The first was the calling of matter into existence, which, by the operation of mechanical and chemical laws, imposed upon it by the Creator, was arranged and digested into a cosmos, that is, an orderly and harmonious whole. These laws are now and ever in perpetual activity, but no secondary or derived agency can either add one atom to the world-mass or diminish aught from it. The second creative act was the introduction of life, first vegetable, and then animal; and for this nothing less than an Almighty power would suffice. Three stages of it are enumerated. The first is deshe, not "grass," but a mere greenness, without visible seed or stalk, such as to this day may be seen upon the surface of rocks, and which, when examined by the microscope, is found to consist of a growth of plants of a minute and mean type. But all endogenous plants belong to this class, and are but the development of this primary greenness. Far higher in the scale are the seed-bearing plants which follow, among which the most important are the cerealia; while in the third class, vegetation reaches its highest development in the tree with woody stem, and the seed enclosed in an edible covering. Geologists inform us that cryptogamous plants, which were the higher forms of the first class, prevailed almost exclusively till the end of the carbonaceous period; but even independently of this evidence we could scarcely suppose that fruit-trees came into existence before the sun shone upon the earth; while the cerealia are found only in surface deposits in connection with vestiges of man. Vegetation, therefore, did not reach its perfection until the sixth day, when animals were created which needed these seeds and fruits for their food. But so far from there being anything in the creative record to require us to believe that the development of vegetation was not gradual, it is absolutely described as being so; and with that first streak of green God gave also the law of vegetation, and under His fostering hand all in due time came to pass which that first bestowal of vegetable life contained. It is the constant rule of Holy Scripture to include in a narrative the ultimate as well as the immediate results of an act; and moreover, in the record of these creative days we are told what on each day was new, while the continuance of all that preceded is understood. The dry land called into existence on the third day was not dry enough to be the abode of terrestrial animals till the sixth day, and not till then would it bear such vegetation as requires a dry soil; and the evidence of geology shows that the atmosphere, created on the second day. was not sufficiently free from carbonic acid and other vapours to be fit for animals to breathe, until long ages of rank vegetation had changed these gases into coal. When, then, on the third day, "God said, Let the earth bring forth grass . . . herb yielding seed . . . tree." He gave the perfect command, but the complete fulfilment of that command would be gradual, as the state of the earth and the necessities of the living creatures brought forth upon it required. For in God's work there is always a fitness, and nothing with Him is hurried or premature.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 11. - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Three terms are employed to describe the vegetation here summoned into existence. Kalisch regards the first as a generic term, including the second and the third; but they are better understood as distinct classes: - (1) grass, deshe, first sprouts of the earth, tender herb, in which the seed is not noticed, as not being obvious to the eye; "tenera herha sine semine saltem conspicuo" (Rosenmüller); probably the various kinds of grasses that supply food for the lower animals (cf. <a href="/psalms/23-2.htm">Psalm 23:2</a>); (2) "the herb (eseb) yielding seed," the more mature herbage, in which the seed is the most striking characteristic; the larger description of plants and vegetables (cf. <a href="/genesis/9-3.htm">Genesis 9:3</a>); and (3) "the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon (or above) the earth." The first clause describes its specific nature - "fruit-bearing;" the second, its peculiar characteristic - enclosing the seed in its fruit; the third, its external appearance - rising above the ground. "This division is simple and natural. It proceeds upon two concurrent marks, the structure and the seed. In the first the green blade is prominent; in the second, the stalk; in the third, the woody texture. In the first the seed is not conspicuous; in the second it is conspicuous; in the third it is enclosed in a fruit which is conspicuous" (Murphy). The phrase "after his kind, appended to the second and third, seems to indicate that the different species of plants were already fixed. The modern dogma of the origin of species by development would thus be declared to be un-biblical, as it has not yet been proved to be scientific. The utmost that can be claimed as established is that "species," qua species, have the power of variation along the line of certain characteristics belonging to themselves, but not that any absolutely new species has ever been developed with power indefinitely to multiply its kind. <a href="/commentaries/genesis/1-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Then God אֱלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative said, וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say “Let the earth הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land bring forth תַּֽדְשֵׁ֤א (taḏ·šê) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1876.htm">Strong's 1876: </a> To sprout, shoot, grow green vegetation, דֶּ֔שֶׁא (de·še) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1877.htm">Strong's 1877: </a> A sprout, grass seed-bearing מַזְרִ֣יעַ (maz·rî·a‘) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2232.htm">Strong's 2232: </a> To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify plants עֵ֚שֶׂב (‘ê·śeḇ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6212.htm">Strong's 6212: </a> Herb, herbage and fruit פְּרִ֞י (pə·rî) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6529.htm">Strong's 6529: </a> Fruit trees, עֵ֣ץ (‘êṣ) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6086.htm">Strong's 6086: </a> Tree, trees, wood each bearing עֹ֤שֶׂה (‘ō·śeh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make fruit פְּרִי֙ (pə·rî) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6529.htm">Strong's 6529: </a> Fruit with seed זַרְעוֹ־ (zar·‘ōw-) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2233.htm">Strong's 2233: </a> Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity according to its kind.” לְמִינ֔וֹ (lə·mî·nōw) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4327.htm">Strong's 4327: </a> A sort, species And it was וַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be so. כֵֽן׃ (ḵên) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> So -- thus <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/genesis/1-11.htm">OT Law: Genesis 1:11 God said Let the earth put forth (Gen. 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