THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
Genesis 1:1--7:2
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the
light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the
first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were]
under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the
firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9 And God
said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. 10 And
God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. 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. 12 And the earth
brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and
the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 13 And the evening and the
morning were the third day. 14 And God said, Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven to divide 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 firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God
made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. 17 And
God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was]
good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth
in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 22 And God blessed
them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in
the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day. 24 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. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 26 And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God
created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them,
and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree
yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every
beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I
have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God
saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which
he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
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