And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.
“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds!
they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.
“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
“Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?
“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?
“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?
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