Genesis 1:21

whales. great sea-creatures.

creature. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. Compare Genesis 1:20 and App-13.

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²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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