²⁵ Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moveth therein.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

²¹ And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

²⁸ And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

¹ Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

¹⁴ And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, And for the precious things of the growth of the moons,

¹⁵ And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

¹⁶ And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush. Let `the blessing' come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

¹⁹ They shall call the peoples unto the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.

⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the mountains are his also.

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.

⁵ Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.