Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible
God created
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
So God created the large sea-creatures
International Standard Version
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 Conservative Version
And God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
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.
Bible in Basic English
And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.
Darby Translation
And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
King James 2000
And God created great sea creatures, and every living thing 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature [that] moves, [with] which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird [with] wings according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.
Modern King James verseion
And God created great sea-animals, and every living soul that creeps with which the waters swarmed after their kind; and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And God created great whales and all manner of creatures that live and move, which the waters brought forth in their kinds, and all manner of feathered fowls in their kinds. And God saw that it was good:
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
And God created the great sea-monsters, - and every living soul that moveth - with which the waters swarmed after their kind and every winged bird - after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Bible stories for children » Who made the world
Birds » Creation of, on the fifth creative day
Creation » Order of » Fifth day, making birds, insects, and fishes
Dragon » Interpreted as whale, in
Fishes » Mentioned in scripture » Whale
Propagation » Of species, encouraged
the Sea » God » Made the birds and fishes out of
Topics
Interlinear
'elohiym
Bara'
Gadowl
Chay
Nephesh
Mayim
Sharats
Kanaph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 1:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Creation
20 And God will say the waters shall breed abundantly creeping things, the living soul, and birds shall fly over the earth, over the face of the firmament of the heavens. 21 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. 22 And God will praise them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and birds shall multiply in the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 1:18
And to rule in the day and in the night, and to separate between the light and between the darkness: And God will see that it is good.
Genesis 1:25
And God will make the living thing of the earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind: and God will see that it is
Genesis 1:31
And God will see every thing which he made: and lo, very good And the evening shall be, and the morning shall be the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
From birds according to its kind, and cattle according to their kind; of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two from all shall come to thee to preserve alive.
Genesis 7:14
They, and every living thing after its kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing creeping upon the earth, after its kind, and every bird after his kind, and every small bird of every wing.
Genesis 8:17
Every living thins which is with thee, from all flesh, of birds and of cattle, and of every creeping thing creeping upon the earth, bring forth with thee, and increase ye abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
Genesis 8:19
Every living thing, every creeping thing, and every bird, every thing creeping upon the earth according to their families shall come forth from the ark.
Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it
Exodus 1:7
Anil the sons of Israel were fruitful, and they will multiply abundantly, and they will increase, and will become strong with might exceedingly; and the land will be filled with them.
Exodus 8:3
And the river abounded with frogs, and they went up and came into thy house, and into the chamber of thy bed, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs:
Job 7:12
Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me?
Job 26:5
The shades shall tremble from under the waters, and their inhabitants.
Psalm 104:24-26
How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions.
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou wert like a young lion of the nations, and thou as a whale in the seas: and thou wilt break forth with thy rivers, and trouble the waters with thy feet, and thou wilt tread their rivers.
Jonah 1:17
And Jehovah will prepare a great fish to swallow down Jonah: and Jonah will be in-the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 2:10
And Jehovah will say to the fish, and he will vomit forth Jonah upon the dry land.
Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.