Genesis 1
1 *In the
beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--2 the earth hath
existed ‘waste and void`*, and
darkness [is]* on the
face of ‘the deep`, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the *waters, 3 and
God saith, `Let light be;' and light is. 4 And God seeth the light that [it is] good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness, 5 and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath
called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day one*. 6 And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and
let it be separating between waters and waters.' 7 And God maketh
the expanse, and it separateth between the waters
which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse:
and it is so. 8 And God calleth to the expanse
`Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day second. 9 And
God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be
collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so. 10 And
God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the
collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth
that [it is] good. 11 And God saith, `Let the earth
yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself)
making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so. 12 And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its
kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God
seeth that [it is] good; 13 and there is an evening,
and there is a morning--day third. 14 And God saith,
`Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between
the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for
days and years, 15 and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the
heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so. 16 And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the
rule of the day, and the small luminary--and the stars--for the rule of the
night; 17 and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon
the earth, 18 and to rule over day and over night,
and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that [it is] good; 19 and there is an evening, and
there is a morning--day fourth. 20 And God saith,
`Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature*, and fowl let
fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.' 21 And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature
that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with,
after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that [it is] good. 22 And God blesseth
them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and
the fowl let multiply in the earth:' 23 and there is an evening, and there is a
morning--day fifth. 24 And God saith, `Let the earth
bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and ‘creeping thing`*, and beast of
the earth after its kind:' and it is so. 25 And God maketh
the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and
every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth
that [it is] good. 26 And God saith, `Let Us make man
in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the
sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' 27 And God prepareth the man* in His image;
in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. 28
And God blesseth them, and God saith
to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and
rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living
thing that is creeping upon the earth.' 29 And God saith,
`Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which [is] upon the face of
all the earth, and every tree in which [is] the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to
you it is for food; 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of
the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which [is] breath of
life, every green herb [is] for food:' and it is so. 31 And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there
is an evening, and there is a morning--day the sixth.