In Genesis 1:22, God blesses these same creatures, commanding them to be fruitful and multiply — the blessing that fulfills the creative word spoken here.

Genesis 1:6 creates the expanse separating waters — the structure God now fills with flying birds and swarming sea life.

Genesis 1:7 establishes the expanse separating waters — the framework within which birds now fly and waters now teem.

In Genesis 8:17, God echoes this command — 'bring out every kind of living creature' — reconstituting life after the flood as a new creation moment.

Genesis 6:20 uses the same creature categories — birds, animals, creeping things — now listed for preservation on the ark rather than creation.

Psalm 104:25 celebrates the same creative act — the sea teeming with living creatures, echoing God's command for waters to swarm with life.

In Psalm 8:8, 'birds of the heavens and fish of the sea' recall the same two creature categories God created, now placed under human dominion.

In Exodus 1:7, Israel multiplies using the same Hebrew verb for 'swarm/teem' that God used to bless sea creatures — fruitful multiplication echoing creation.

In Psalm 50:11, God claims ownership of all birds and field creatures — asserting His authority over what He created on day five.

In Psalm 69:34, 'the seas and everything that moves in them' are called to praise — the very creatures God commanded into existence.

Psalm 148:10 calls these same created creatures — beasts, birds, and creeping things — to praise their Creator.

In 1 Corinthians 15:39, Paul's taxonomy — human, animal, bird, fish — mirrors the distinct creature categories established at creation.