And he said: Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
Ibn Ezra
And He said - the text states "Let the earth bring forth grass", "let them swarm", "let the earth bring forth" - behold, He placed a power within the earth and the water to do [these] at the command of Hashem, and this is the [concept of] regeneration / procreation. The meaning of "let it bring forth grass" is like "let it grow" (tatzmiach) ["let it bring forth plants"]
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.