3. God creates life for the land, human life for his service (24–31). The sixth day reveals both the culmination and the goal of creation. After bringing order and fullness to the creation, God created human life to enjoy and rule the now habitable world. First, God created animals for the earth after their kind. Here again God created in kinds, or species. So far the expression “kind” (mîn) has been used for vegetation, both plants and trees, water creatures, air creatures, and now land creatures
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