All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
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- KJV All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
- BSB Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
- NKJV All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
- NASB All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of mankind, another flesh of animals, another flesh of birds, and another of fish.
- NLT Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
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- Gen 1:20–26God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
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