In Our Image: Genesis 1:24-31

The sixth day began with God populating the land:

"Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind."

And the earth brought forth beasts.

Lions shook their manes in morning light. Elephants lumbered across savannas. Horses galloped through meadows. Cattle grazed on hillsides. Snakes slithered through grass. Every creature that would crawl or run or bound across the land emerged at God's word, the empty continents suddenly alive with movement.