God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds […]
⛓ Read Genesis 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The creation categories — beasts, creeping things, birds — underlie the threefold listing in the vision; the divine pronouncement that all is now clean recalls the original 'very good' creation. Thematic/figural only.
Low confidenceThe triad of earth-beasts, creeping things, and birds also recalls the creation account's enumeration of the living creatures over which humanity is given dominion. A faint echo: the categories are generic and shared with the flood narrative, so attribution to Genesis 1 specifically is weak.
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