Genesis 1

¹ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

² The earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ Then God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light.

⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

⁵ God called the light day, and he called the darkness night. There was evening and there was morning: the first day.

⁶ God said, “Let there be a firmament in the middle of the waters, and let it separate water from water.”

⁷ God made the firmament and separated the waters beneath the firmament from the waters above the firmament. And it happened that way.

⁸ God called the firmament heaven. There was evening and there was morning: the second day.

⁹ God said, “Let the waters beneath the heavens be gathered into one place, and let dry land appear.” And it happened that way.

¹⁰ God called the dry land earth, and he called the gathering of the waters seas. And God saw that this was good.

¹¹ God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: plants that yield seed and fruit trees that bear fruit according to their kinds, with their seed in it, on the earth.” And it happened that way.

¹² The earth produced vegetation: plants yielding seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds. And God saw that this was good.

¹³ There was evening and there was morning: the third day.

¹⁴ God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate day from night; and let them serve as signs for appointed times, for days and years.

¹⁵ Let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it happened that way.

¹⁶ God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars too.

¹⁷ God placed them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.

¹⁸ To rule the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that this was good.

¹⁹ There was evening and there was morning: the fourth day.

²⁰ God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth, across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”

²¹ God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teem, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that this was good.

²² God blessed them: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

²³ There was evening and there was morning: the fifth day.

²⁴ God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creeping things, and wild animals according to their kinds.” And it happened that way.

²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that this was good.

²⁶ God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the livestock, all the earth, and all the creatures that creep on the earth.”

²⁷ God created humankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

²⁹ God said, “Look, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it: they will be food for you.

³⁰ And to all the animals of the earth, all the birds of the heavens, and everything that moves on the earth and has life, I give every green plant for food.” And it happened that way.

³¹ God saw everything he had made, and it was very good. There was evening and there was morning: the sixth day.

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