Biblical Histories of the Old Testament

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God created great whales, fish and all living creatures in the waters, and every winged bird, according to its kind. Genesis 1.
original Latin: "Creauit Deus cete grandia, piſces & omnia animantia in aquis, omneꝙ uolatile pennatum, ſecundum genus ſuum. Gen. 1,". The Latin "cete grandia" is often translated as "great whales" or "sea monsters."

A woodcut illustration depicting the fifth day of Creation from the Book of Genesis. A bearded figure representing God, adorned with a crown and a radiant halo, stands on a coastline. He gestures with his right hand toward several birds in flight and with his left toward a large fish or whale surfacing in the water. A single bird stands on the shore in the foreground. The background features a body of water, distant hills, and trees. A small numeral '4' is visible in the upper right corner within the frame of the image.

God created great whales and what lives in the waters; all kinds of feathered birds, each after its kind. Genesis 1.
original German: "Gott ſchüff groſſe walfiſch / vnd was in waſſern lebt / Allerley gefiderts geuögel / jedes nach ſeiner art. Gen. j." The spelling "ſchüff" is an early modern variant of "erschuf" (created), and "geuögel" refers to birds or fowl collectively.

Cete grandia (A Latin phrase meaning "great sea creatures." While modern translations often use "whales," to a 16th-century reader, this term represented all massive and mysterious inhabitants of the deep sea.)

Gevögel (An archaic German collective noun for birds. In this context, it emphasizes the variety of all "feathered" creatures created to occupy the air.)