V 24, 25 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
We now come to what me might call courtship's completion. God is about to bring the man and woman into His creation—as husband and wife (which is the very point of courtship). Before He does however, God populates the dry ground with living creatures even as the waters and the heavens have been populated with them.