Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was formless and
void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there
be light"; and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was
good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light day, and
the darkness He called night. And there was evening and
there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, "Let there
be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it
separate the waters from the waters."
7 God made the expanse, and
separated the waters which were below the expanse from the
waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
8 God called the expanse heaven.
And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 Then God said, "Let the
waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let
the dry land appear"; and it was so.
10 God called the dry land
earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and
God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the
earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit
trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed
in them"; and it was so.
12 The earth brought forth
vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees
bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God
saw that it was good.
13 There was evening and there
was morning, a third day.
14 Then God said, "Let
there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate
the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for
seasons and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in
the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth";
and it was so.
16 God made the two great
lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser
light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
17 God placed them in the
expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and to govern the day and the
night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God
saw that it was good.
19 There was evening and there
was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, "Let the
waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds
fly above the earth in the open expanse of the
heavens."
21 God created the great sea
monsters and every living creature that moves, with which
the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird
after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them, saying,
"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23 There was evening and there
was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then God said, "Let the earth
bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and
creeping things and beasts of the earth after their
kind"; and it was so.
25 God made the beasts of the
earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and
everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God
saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let Us
make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let
them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 God created man in His own
image, in the image of God He created him; male and female
He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God
said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that
moves on the earth."
29 Then God said, "Behold,
I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the
surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit
yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and to every beast of the
earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that
moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green
plant for food"; and it was so.
31 God saw all that He had made,
and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and
there was morning, the sixth day.
Chap.2
1 Thus the heavens and the
earth were completed, and all their hosts.
2 By the seventh day God
completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh
day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His
work which God had created and made.
4 This is the account of the
heavens and the earth when they were created,