Question on blessings in Genesis 1

[LittleLambofJesus]

I was translating Genesis and would like to ask a question.

Did God create the sea creatures and birds from "nothing" but made the land animals from the ground? Also, it appears the Lord blessed the birds and sea creatures but not the beasts of the Land? Anyone have any views on this? Thanks.

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Genesis 1:21 And Elohim is creating/bara' the Monsters, the great ones, and all soul of the living, the moving/ramas, which they swarm/ sharats the waters to species of them, and all flyer of wing to species of him, and Elohim is seeing that [it is] Good.
22 And Elohim is blessing them to say "be fruitful! and multiply! and fill! the waters in sea, and the flyer, he shall increase in earth/land".
23 And He is becoming Evening and he is becoming morning, Day Fifth.

24 And Elohim is saying:, "And the Land she shall bring forth soul of living/chay to species of her, cattle/b@hemah, and creepy things/remes and life/chay of Land to species of her", and he is becoming so.
25 And Elohim is making/`asah life/chay of the land to species of her, and the beast/cattle/b@hemah to species of her and all of creepy things of the ground to species of him, and Elohim is seeing that [it is] Good.
26 And Elohim is saying: " we shall make/`asah [an] 'adam in image of us, as likeness of us, and they shall rule in fish/dagah of the Sea and in Flyer/`owph of the heavens and in Cattle/Beast/b@hemah and in all the Land and in every the moving one/remes, the one moving/ramas on the Land"
27 And Elohim is creating/bara' the 'adam in image of him, in image of Elohim he creates/bara' him, male and female he creates/bara' them

 

[shernren]

I think that the blessing at the end of the sixth day is a blessing not only on man but also on the land animals as well. But you're right, this is one of the more important unanswered questions in my mind as well, both from the standpoints of those who take it historically and those who take it metaphorically.

 

[Assyrian]

I was translating Genesis and would like to ask a question.
Did God create the sea creatures and birds from "nothing" but made the land animals from the ground?

I think you need to go back a bit to
Gen 1:20 And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
and
Gen 1:11 And God said, "Let the earth put forth (or cause to sprout grass hiphil imperfect), herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
Gen 1:12 And The earth brought forth (caused to come out or brought out hiphil imperfect) grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
In each case God commands the earth or the sea to do the work of producing life. This is still God creating, but he is creating by ordaining processes in the natural world. In the early church it was interpreted as God enabling spontaneous generation. Some TEs, including myself, read it as God designing the processes science now calls abiogenesis and evolution.