Bible passage: Genesis 1:20-23
“20. And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21. So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23. And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fifth day. ”

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. This is the 40th Lecture on Genesis.

 I continue from the last lecture to explain the creation works of the 5th day. God created fish in the waters and birds in the in the open expanse. Genesis 1:21 says, "God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good." At this time, fish were created not just in the sea waters alone, but also in the fresh waters. "Every living creature that moves with which the waters swarmed" was created on the 5th day. 

Shellfish with hard shells, mollusks such as squids and octopus, bottom-creeping things under the seas such as crabs and crawfish, and underwater plants that cannot survive out of water were also created on this day. By the way, "the great sea monsters" are specially mentioned in this verse. What are these "great sea monsters?" They refer to fish which are immense in size such as whales. Currently, the largest true whale existing on earth is the blue whale. Blue whales can reach up to 33 meters in length and 190 tons or more in weight.

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