Genesis 1

¹ In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

² Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweepingover the waters.

³ God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.

⁴ God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness.

⁵ God cal ed light 'day', and darkness he called 'night'. Evening came and morning came: the first day.

⁶ God said, 'Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.' And so itwas.

⁷ God made the vault, and it divided the waters under the vault from the waters above the vault.

⁸ God cal ed the vault 'heaven'. Evening came and morning came: the second day.

⁹ God said, 'Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear.' Andso it was.

¹⁰ God cal ed the dry land 'earth' and the mass of waters 'seas', and God saw that it was good.

¹¹ God said, 'Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on earth, bearing fruitwith their seed inside, each corresponding to its own species.' And so it was.

¹² The earth produced vegetation: the various kinds of seed-bearing plants and the fruit trees with seedinside, each corresponding to its own species. God saw that it was good.

¹³ Evening came and morning came: the third day.

¹⁴ God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicatefestivals, days and years.

¹⁵ Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.' And so it was.

¹⁶ God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day, the smal er light to govern thenight, and the stars.

¹⁷ God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth,

¹⁸ to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness. God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.

²⁰ God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way abovethe earth across the vault of heaven.' And so it was.

²¹ God created great sea-monsters and al the creatures that glide and teem in the waters in their ownspecies, and winged birds in their own species. God saw that it was good.

²² God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fil the waters of the seas; and let the birdsmultiply on land.'

²³ Evening came and morning came: the fifth day.

²⁴ God said, 'Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species: cattle, creeping thingsand wild animals of al kinds.' And so it was.

²⁵ God made wild animals in their own species, and cattle in theirs, and every creature that crawls alongthe earth in its own species. God saw that it was good.

²⁶ God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be mastersof the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, al the wild animals and al the creatures that creep alongthe ground.'

²⁷ God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female hecreated them.

²⁸ God blessed them, saying to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, fil the earth and subdue it. Be masters of thefish of the sea, the birds of heaven and al the living creatures that move on earth.'

²⁹ God also said, 'Look, to you I give all the seed-bearing plants everywhere on the surface of the earth,and all the trees with seed-bearing fruit; this wil be your food.

³⁰ And to al the wild animals, al the birds of heaven and al the living creatures that creep along theground, I give all the foliage of the plants as their food.' And so it was.

³¹ God saw al he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixthday.