Creation
In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.
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.
And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light.
And God
saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.
And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and
the morning were the first day.
And God said,
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters. 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.
And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day.
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.
And God called
the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he
Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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.
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.
And the evening
and the morning were the third day.
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:
And let them be
for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth:
and it was so.
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.
And God set
them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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.
And the evening
and the morning were the fourth day.
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.
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.
And God blessed
them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters
in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day.
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.
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.
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.
So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thus the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God
blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in
it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.