Genesis 1:23 meaning and explanation
And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
Genesis 1:23, Berean Standard Bible
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This closing line belongs to the account of the fifth day, when God filled the waters with teeming creatures and the sky with birds, blessing them to be fruitful and multiply. The narrator, not God, speaks here, marking the end of another stage of creation with the repeating formula that structures the whole chapter.
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