1 In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth
2 And the earth
was without form, and void; and darkness
was on the face of the deep.
And the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the
light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he calld
Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said,
Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 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.
8 And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day.
9 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.
10 And God called
the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that
it was good.
11 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.
12 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.
13 And the evening
and the morning were the third day.
14 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:
15 And let them be
for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 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.
17 And God set them
in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth.
18 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.
19 And the evening
and the morning were the fourth
day.
20 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.
21 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.
22 And God blessed
them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl
multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 So God created
man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 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.
29 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.
30 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.
31 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.