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.