Genesis 1:11
“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.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 1Meaning
The earth is commanded to bring forth plant life capable of continuing through seed and fruit. Fertility is built into the chapter's picture of a living world.
Read carefully
The phrase according to its kind is ordinary classificatory language in the narrative and should not automatically be equated with a modern biological taxonomic rank.
Reflection
Genesis 1 presents life not only as existing but as capable of producing future life. Fruitfulness is woven into the created order before humanity appears.