Holy Scripture

Genesis 1:25

A church father on this verse
“The soul of brute beasts did not emerge after having been hidden in the earth, but it was called into existence of the time of the command.”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — HEXAEMERON 9.3

Source: Septuagint

Original

25And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.

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In context

23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.

— Genesis 1:25 —

26And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

27And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.

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