And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
Ibn Ezra
"living soul" - this is a general term, for anything generated of fire and water and earth - including man. "[domesticated] beasts" - they are with human beings, for their needs - riding and eating. "creeping things" - they are the little things which go about on the earth. "the animals of the earth" - they are in the unsettled wilds [lit. - fields]. The final vav of the word hayto (animals) is added [i.e., extra], like l'may'no mayim Psalm 114:8, b'no b'or Numbers 24:3.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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