20And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."


In Context

17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,

18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

19 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.

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

21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."

Genesis 1:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:20God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20God said, |Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20And 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.