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καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Βλαστησάτω ἡ γῆ βοτάνην χόρτου, σπεῖρον σπέρμα κατὰ γένος καὶ καθ᾽ ὁμοιότητα, καὶ ξύλον κάρπιμον ποιοῦν καρπόν, οὗ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ κατὰ γένος εἰς ὁμοιότητα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐγένετο οὕτως.
Day three's second act: plant life, each after its own kind (κατὰ γένος), a phrase repeated ten times across the chapter's animal and plant creation and the seed of the whole biblical idea of natural kinds. Swete's text carries an extra clause, εἰς ὁμοιότητα (“unto likeness”), doubling κατὰ γένος; Brenton's text lacks it.
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