And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Dieu dit: Que la terre produise des animaux vivants selon leur espèce, du bétail, des reptiles et des animaux terrestres, selon leur espèce. Et cela fut ainsi.
KJV
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Philo Judaeus
De Opificio Mundi
ὰ τὰ φυτὰ ζῴων τὰ χερσαῖα — καί φησιν· ἐξαγαγέτω ἡ γῆ κτήνη καὶ θηρία καὶ ἑρπετὰ καθ’ ἕκαστον γένος (Gen. 1,24). ἡ δὲ τὰ προσταχθέντα αὐτίκα ἀνίησι τῇ τε κατασκευῇ διαφέροντα καὶ ταῖς ῥώμαις καὶ ταῖς ἐνυπαρχούσαις βλαπτικαῖς ἢ ὠφελητικαῖς δυνάμεσιν. ἐπὶ δὲ πᾶσιν ἐποίει τὸν ἄνθρωπ…
Philo Judaeus
Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III
ων ἐν ἕκτῃ ἡμέρᾳ· „καὶ εἶπεν Ἐξαγαγέτω ἡ γῆ ψυχὴν ζῶσαν κατὰ γένος, τετράποδα καὶ ἑρπετὰ καὶ θηρία“ (Gen. 1,24). τί παθὼν οὖν ἄλλα πλάττει θηρία νῦν οὐκ ἀρκεσθεὶς τοῖς προτέροις; λεκτέον οὖν ἠθικῶς μὲν τοῦτο· πλούσιόν ἐστι τὸ κακίας γένος ἐν τῷ γενητῷ, ὥστε ἀεὶ γεννᾶσθαι τὰ φαυλό…
Philo Judaeus
De Migratione Abrahami
eing mentioned is this, that he believed that God would visit the race which was capable of seeing," Genesis 1. 24. and would not give it up for ever and ever to ignorance, that blind mistress, but would distinguish between the immortal and the mortal parts of the soul, and leave…
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