Study it in the app“And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their kind: livestock and creeping things and animals of the earth according to their kind.” And it was so.”
AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Letתּוֹצֵאthe earthהָאָרֶץbring forthתּוֹצֵאliving beingsנֶפֶשׁ חַיָּהaccording to their kind:לְמִינָהּlivestockבְּהֵמָהand creeping thingsוָרֶמֶשׂand animalsוְחַיְתוֹof the earthאֶרֶץaccording to their kind.”לְמִינָהּAnd it wasוַיְהִיso.כֵן
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “totse” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearsliving being
Something alive that breathes, person or animal.
Where else “nefesh” appearsbeast
Literally "living thing": a creature, especially a wild one.
Where else “chaya” appearskind
Kind, sort. It appears in the phrase "according to its kind": each living thing according to its type.
Where else “mina” appearslivestock
A four-legged animal, above all farm animals.
Where else “behema” appearscreeping thing
Creeping things: animals that move along the ground or glide, reptiles and small animals. From the same root as "creep".
Where else “remes” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yehi” appears23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 · This verse (above)
25And Elohim made the animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
1. What it says
What did Elohim say about everything he had made at the end of the sixth day (v. 31)?
2. What it means
What does the text say about human beings when it says they were created in the image of Elohim (v. 27)?
3. How I live it
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?
