Genesis 1
The Beginning
1 In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was
hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the
light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and
the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and
there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters
to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse
and separated the water under the expanse from the water
above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky."
And there was evening, and there was morning—the second
day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to
one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters
he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation:
seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit
with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it
was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing
seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with
seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it
was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was
morning—the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the
sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve
as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let
them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on
the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the
greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to
govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them
in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to
govern the day and the night, and to separate light from
darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was
evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the
sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and
every living and moving thing with which the water teems,
according to their kinds, and every winged bird according
to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed
them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill
the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the
earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the
fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move
along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its
kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals
according to their kinds, the livestock according to their
kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground
according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our
likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and
the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the
earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the
ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every
living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on
the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit
with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all
the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that
has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for
food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And
there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth
day.