He created the cattle and the creeping things, and all the beasts of the earth.

All this was before the creation of man.

He had formed the earth many centuries before man's creation, and he created it that man might have a place to live.

He caused his prophet to write: "I have made the earth and created man upon it.

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited."-- Isaiah 45:12,18.
[30]God created the first man and woman out of the elements and gave them power to produce and bring forth children, and all the human race sprang from the first pair.