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Genesis 1:20

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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.

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  1. Genesis 1:18

    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.

  2. Genesis 1:19

    And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

  3. Genesis 1:21

    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.

  4. Genesis 1:22

    And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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