 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. Then the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. 3 God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness. 5 God called the light, day, and He called the darkness, night. That evening and morning were the first day. 6 Then God said, Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 God made the expanse and divided the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 God called the firmament Heaven. That evening and morning were the second day. 9 Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and He called the gathering together of the waters, seas. And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, Let the earth bring forth tender sprouts the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth tender sprouts, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good. 13 That evening and morning were the third day. 14 Then God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, 15 Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also. 17 God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 That evening and morning were the fourth day. 20 Then God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a living soul. And let birds fly over the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens. 21 God created great sea animals and every living creature that creeps and the waters swarmed after their kind and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 So God blessed them saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas and let the fowl multiply in the earth. 23 That evening and morning were the fifth day. 24 Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth after its kind. And it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after its kind and cattle after their kind and all creepers upon the earth after their kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens and over the cattle and over all the earth and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. 27 So God created mankind in His image, in the image of God He created them, and He created them male and female. 28 God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens and all animals that move upon the earth. 29 Then God said, Behold. I have given you every herb bearing seed that is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it will be for food. 30 To every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the heavens and to every creeper on the earth that has in it a living soul, every green plant is for food. And it was so. 31 God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And that evening and morning were the sixth day.
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