The Bible

Genesis Chapter 1

¹At the beginning, God created-from-nothing the sky and the ground. ²The earth was wild and waste. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

³God said, "Light is!" and light became! ⁴God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵God called the light "day", and he called the darkness "night". There was evening and there was morning, day one.

⁶God said, "There is an expanse in the middle of the waters, and it divides the waters from the waters." ⁷God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and so it was. ⁸God called the expanse "sky". There was evening and there was morning, day two.

⁹God said, "The waters under the sky are gathered together to one place, and dry land appears;" and so it was. ¹⁰God called the dry land "earth", and he called the gathering together of the waters "seas". God saw that it was good. ¹¹God said, "The earth sprouts grass, plants yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind, with their seeds in them, on the earth;" and so it was. ¹²The earth produced grass and plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good. ¹³There was evening and there was morning, day three.

¹⁴God said, "There are lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night. They are for signs to mark seasons, days, and years. ¹⁵They are for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and so it was. ¹⁶God made the two great lights. The greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, ¹⁸and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. ¹⁹There was evening and there was morning, day four.

²⁰God said, "The waters teem with living creatures, and birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." ²¹God created-from-nothing the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, which the waters teemed with, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good. ²²God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." ²³There was evening and there was morning, day five.

²⁴God said, "The earth produces living creatures according to their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth according to their kind;" and so it was. ²⁵God made the animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

²⁶God said, "We make mankind in our image, according to our likeness. Let them be in charge of the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." ²⁷God created-from-nothing mankind in his own image. In his image God created them; male and female he created them. ²⁸God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." ²⁹God said, "Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. ³⁰To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life in it, I have given every green plant for food;" and so it was.

³¹God saw everything that he had made, and, look it was very good! There was evening and there was morning, day six.