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In fact, He filled the seas so that the verb here is “to swarm”. It pictures a large population of these
creatures in motion.

The term "living" is that very familiar Hebrew word nephesh which speaks of soul, or being, or life. It's
used here for the very first time. Literally nephesh means that which breathes...that which breathes.

These beings are bara, that is to say they are created. And here he uses bara the word for create. This
is an epoch- making achievement that demands the verb "to create." As a monumental thing takes
place, He creates conscious beings that can move and they move through the sea in swarms...such a
massive amount of created beings.

So, man's house is built. It's now ready for his occupancy. And the crown of creation comes on day six.
The crown of creation is man.

Day 6 Genesis 1:24-25 –Creation of land animals
24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and
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creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the
beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything
that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (ESV)

The Bible just gives you three simple categories; cattle, creeping things, beasts of the earth – all
created instantaneously.

“Cattle” is a word that speaks of animals which can be tamed and domesticated for man's use. He is
including all animals that can be tamed and domesticated and used by man.

And then second category is creeping things. And, of course, immediately snakes
and lizards and things like that come to mind, but it probably stretches beyond
that. Anything that creeps or crawls on the ground, that would include a whole
world of insects, and as one Hebrew writer says, "Animals with short legs whose
bellies are not far from the ground." This would include insects, rodents, as well as
snakes and amphibians, etc. Leviticus 11: 29 says, "These are to you the unclean
among the swarming things which swarm on the earth, the mole, the mouse, the
great lizard, the gecko which is a kind of lizard, the crocodile, the lizard, the sand
reptile and the chameleon.”

And then the third category, the beasts of the earth, would be four-legged animals of some size which
are generally not tamed. We think immediately of lions and giraffe and elephants and rhinos and
hippos and tigers and animals like that that are not domesticated for any purposes of man, generally
speaking. In general, this would be the large mammals that roam the earth in an untamed or wild
form.

And then capping it all off, once everything is prepared, the house is made for man. Verse 26 says,
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image.'" And here we are introduced to the crown of creation
which is man.

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