Study it in the app“And 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.”
AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםmadeיַּעַשׂthe animalsאֶת חַיַּתof the earthהָאָרֶץaccording to their kind,לְמִינָהּand the livestockוְאֶת הַבְּהֵמָהaccording to their kind,לְמִינָהּand everyוְאֵת כָּלcreeping thingרֶמֶשׂof the groundהָאֲדָמָהaccording to its kind.לְמִינֵהוּAndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםsawיַּרְאthatכִּיit wasgood.טוֹב
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “yaas” appearsbeast
Literally "living thing": a creature, especially a wild one.
Where else “chayat” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” 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” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yar” appearsgood
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tov” appears24And 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.
25 · This verse (above)
26And Elohim said, “Let us make the human being in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
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?
