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GENESIS
CHAPTER 1
1 IN the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth. 2 Now the earth was
unformed and void, and darkness was upon
the face of the deep; and the spirit of
God hovered over 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 there was evening and there was
morning, one 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 there was evening
and there was morning, a 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
put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and
fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind,
wherein is the seed thereof, upon the
earth.' And it was so. 12 And the earth
brought forth grass, herb yielding seed
after its kind, and tree bearing fruit,
wherein is the seed thereof, after its
kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 And
there was evening and there was morning, a
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 the two great lights: the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night; and the stars. 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 there was evening and there was
morning, a fourth day.
20 And God said: 'Let the waters swarm
with swarms of living creatures, and let
fowl fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.' 21 And God created
the great sea-monsters, and every living
creature that creepeth, wherewith the
waters swarmed, after its kind, and every
winged fowl after its 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 there was
evening and there was morning, a fifth
day.p. 4
24 And God said: 'Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after its kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the earth after its kind.' And it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth
after its kind, and the cattle after their
kind, and every thing that creepeth upon
the ground after its 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 And 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 creepeth
upon the earth.' 29 And God said: 'Behold,
I have given you every herb yielding seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed—to you it shall be for
food; 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 a living soul, [I have
given] every green herb for food.' And it
was so. 31 And God saw every thing that He
had made, and, behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was
morning, the sixth day. |
