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Genesis 1:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Three terms are employed to describe the vegetation here summoned into existence.

Kalisch regards the first as a generic term, including the second and the third; but they are better understood as distinct classes:??

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