Genesis 1:24-25

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“...the earth [brought] forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind.”

Earth Science, Biology

Creatures, Kinds, Cattle, Beasts ^{(67) (68)}

This time God formed the creatures out of the earth. Notice the Word is careful to express that all is brought out of its “own kind,” as it multiplies. There is no creature, cattle, or beast that comes out of another kind such as humans from monkeys. Notice here that “cattle” denotes domestic animals living on vegetables (which we saw that God had afore provided); - “beasts of the earth” denote wild animals; especially such as live on flesh; and - “creeping things” denotes reptiles; or all the different genera of serpents, worms, and such animals as have no feet.

Cattle are inclusive of all the domestic animals used for food but are often used for work. “Wild beasts” are of a different sort that feed off flesh themselves and are not usually tame or domestic.