1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And 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 the darkness he called "night."
And there was evening, and there was morning葉he first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be a vault between the waters to
separate water from water."
7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the
vault from the water above it. And it was so.
8 God called the vault "sky." And there was evening, and there
was morning葉he second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to
one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he
called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-
bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed
in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to
their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according
to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning葉he third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to
separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs
to mark seasons and days and years,
15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on
the earth." And it was so.
16 God made two great lights葉he greater light to govern the day
and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the
stars.
17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the
earth,
18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from
darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening, and there was morning葉he fourth
day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky."
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every
living and moving thing with which the water teems, according
to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number
and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on
the earth."
23 And there was evening, and there was morning葉he fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according
to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the
ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it
was so.
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the
livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that
move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw
that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, in our
likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and
the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild
animals, and over all the creatures that move along the
ground."
27 So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of
God he created them; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in
the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living
creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit
with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky
and all the creatures that move on the ground容verything
that has the breath of life in it悠 give every green plant for
food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And
there was evening, and there was morning葉he sixth day.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their
vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been
doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on
it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Genesis 1, 2:1-3
Genesis 1
The Beginning
Genesis 2:1-3
