וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים

תּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְמִינָהּ

בְּהֵמָה וָרֶמֶשׂ

וְחַיְתוֹ-אֶרֶץ לְמִינָהּ

וַיְהִי-כֵן.

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وَقَالَ اللهُ:

«لِتُخْرِجِ الأَرْضُ ذَوَاتِ أَنْفُسٍ حَيَّةٍ كَجِنْسِهَا:

بَهَائِمَ، وَدَبَّابَاتٍ،

وَوُحُوشَ أَرْضٍ كَأَجْنَاسِهَا».

وَكَانَ كَذلِكَ.

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Y dijo Dios:

Produzca la tierra seres vivientes según su género,

bestias y serpientes

y animales de la tierra según su especie:

y fué así.

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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.

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Additional LDS scriptural sources:

Moses 2:24
And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind, and it was so;

Abraham 4:24
And the Gods prepared the earth to bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so, as they had said.

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Notes/Questions:

There is an entry in Wikipedia for “Animals in the Bible.”

Here’s a blog post titled: “Genesis 1:24-25, Animals”

The word that interests me here is the Hebrew “remesh” (רֶמֶשׂ) which often is translated as “creeping things” … my gut instinct is that there’s some interesting things going on with this word, but I haven’t really found what I’m looking for on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of the word “sheretz” (שֶׁרֶץ) that appears in Genesis 1:20.

Also appearing in this verse is the Hebrew word “behemah” (בְּהֵמָה) which has an English cognate: “behemoth”.

See the Google define function for “behemoth”.

Also see the wikipedia entry for “behemoth.”

Here’s a fun quote from the wikipedia entry:

In Jewish belief, Behemoth is the primal unconquerable monster of the land, as Leviathan is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster of the sky. There is a legend that the Leviathan and the Behemoth shall hold a battle at the end of the world. The two will finally kill each other, and the surviving men will feast on their meat. According to midrash recording traditions, it is impossible for anyone to kill a behemoth except for the person who created it, in this case the God of the Hebrews. A later haggadic tradition furthermore holds that at the banquet at the end of the world, the behemoth will be served up along with the Leviathan and Ziz