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καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ κήτη [τὰ με]γάλα καὶ πᾶσαν ψυχὴν [ζώων ἑρπε]τῶν, ἃ ἐξήγαγεν [τὰ ὕδατα κατὰ γένη αὐτῶν], καὶ πᾶν πετεινὸν πτ[ερωτὸν] κατὰ γένος· καὶ ἴδεν ὁ [θεὸς ὅτι καλά].
This verse is the most heavily damaged in Codex A: Swete restores whole word-groups conjecturally (the article with κήτη, the phrase “living creeping creatures”, the entire relative clause “which the waters brought forth”, and “...God [saw that it was] good”). κήτη, “sea monsters”, is the same rare word used at Matthew 12:40 of the “great fish” that swallowed Jonah.
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