20Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms
of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of
the heavens,” . . . 21and God saw that it was good. 22God
blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply” . . . 24Then God
said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and
creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so . . . 25
and God saw that it was good.
— Genesis 1