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.
Chapter 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.
3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
and made.
4. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made
the earth and the heavens,
5. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and
every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a
man to till the ground.
6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.
7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul.
