In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness
was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the
waters.
And God said, “Let
there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he
separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the
darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the
first day.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to
separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under
the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to
one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground
“land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation:
seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it,
according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation:
plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed
in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was
evening, and there was morning—the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky
to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred
times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to
give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater
light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made
the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to
govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw
that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the
great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems
and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird
according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said,
“Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the
birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the
fifth day.
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the
ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God
made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to
their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to
their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our
likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the
sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the
ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the
birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They
will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in
the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has
the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And
there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Genesis 1
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