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Genesis 1:20
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18 and to arule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.  
19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living1 creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the2 firmament of the heavens.”  
21 So aGod 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.  
22 And God blessed them, saying, a“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”  
23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 Then 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.
25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, a“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; blet them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over1 all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”  
27 So God created man ain His own image; in the image of God He created him; bmale and female He created them.  
Verse Comparison: Genesis 1:20

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American Standard Version
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Amplified® Bible
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly {and} swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.

Contemporary English Version
God said, "I command the ocean to be full of living creatures, and I command birds to fly above the earth."

Darby English Version
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

Good News Bible
Then God commanded, "Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds."

King James Version
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

New American Standard Bible
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."

New International Version
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

New King James Version
Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."

Revised Standard Version
And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."

Young's Literal Translation
And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'


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