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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:21 - Darby

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Ge 1:21 Darby 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 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.

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The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
every living creature

The second clause, "every living creature," as distinguished from fishes merely, is taken up again in (Gen 1:24); showing that in the second creative act all animal life is included.
 
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24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.