Jeremiah 5:27NET Bible
Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
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God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
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God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."
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God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."
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By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.