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Genesis 1:17-24 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

17. God set them in the dome of the sky, to illuminate the earth,

18. to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

19. Evening came, and morning followed—the fourth day.

20. Then God said: Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky.

21. God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good,

22. and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.

23. Evening came, and morning followed—the fifth day.

24. Then God said: Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal. And so it happened:

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