[1] At the first God made the heaven and the earth. [2] And the earth was
waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the
Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light. [4] And God, looking on the light, saw
that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
[5] Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and
there was morning, the first day. [6] And God said, Let there be a solid
arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters. [7]
And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under
the arch and those which were over it: and it was so. [8] And God gave the
arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the
second day. [9] And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together
in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so. [10] And God
gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place
were named Seas: and God saw that it was good. [11] And God said, Let grass
come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving
fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. [12] And
grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and
every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw
that it was good. [13] And there was evening and there was morning, the
third day. [14] And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven,
for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs,
and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: [15]
And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the
earth: and it was so. [16] And God made the two great lights: the greater
light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of
the night: and he made the stars. [17] And God put them in the arch of
heaven, to give light on the earth; [18] To have rule over the day and the
night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that
it was good. [19] And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth
day. [20] And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let
birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven. [21] And God
made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which
the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it
was good. [22] And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have
increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be
increased in the earth. [23] And there was evening and there was morning,
the fifth day. [24] And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of
living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the
earth after their sort: and it was so. [25] And God made the beast of the
earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything
moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was
good. [26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him
have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over
the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes
flat on the earth. [27] And God made man in his image, in the image of God
he made him: male and female he made them. [28] And God gave them his
blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth
full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth. [29] And
God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of
all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be
for your food: [30] And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of
the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given
every green plant for food: and it was so. [31] And God saw everything
which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was
morning, the sixth day.
