B'resheet (Genesis) 1 (‘In the beginning’)
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was
unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God
hovered over the surface of the water. 3 Then God said, "Let there be
light"; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and God
divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. So there was evening, and there was morning, one day.
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God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the water; let it divide
the water from the water."7 God made the dome and divided the water under
the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was, 8 and God called
the dome Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
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God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one
place, and let dry land appear," and that is how it was. 10 God called the
dry land Earth, the gathering together of the water he called Seas, and God saw
that it was good.
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God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, seed-producing plants, and fruit
trees, each yielding its own kind of seed-bearing fruit, on the earth";
and that is how it was. 12 The earth brought forth grass, plants each yielding
its own kind of seed, and trees each producing its own kind of seed-bearing
fruit; and God saw that it was good. 13 So there was evening, and there was
morning, a third day.
(A:
ii) 14 God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the
day from the night; let them be for signs, seasons, days and years; 15 and let
them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth"; and
that is how it was. 16 God made the two great lights—the larger light to rule
the day and the smaller light to rule the night—and the stars. 17 God put them
in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth, 18 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 So there was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.
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God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let
birds fly above the earth in the open dome of the sky."21 God created the
great sea creatures and every living thing that creeps, so that the water
swarmed with all kinds of them, and there was every kind of winged bird; and
God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful,
multiply and fill the water of the seas, and let birds multiply on the
earth."23 So there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.
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iii) 24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth each kind of living
creature—each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast"; and that
is how it was. 25 God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and
every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and God saw that it was
good.
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Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of
ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air,
the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that
crawls on the earth."
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So God created humankind in his own image; in the image of God he created him: male
and female he created them.
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God blessed them: God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every
living creature that crawls on the earth."29 Then God said, "Here!
Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and
every tree with seed-bearing fruit. 30 And to every wild animal, bird in the
air and creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I am
giving as food every kind of green plant." And that is how it was. 31 God
saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good. So there was
evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.