1 In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And 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.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light,
that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters. 7And 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. 8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one
place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10And God called the dry land
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that
it was good. 11And 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. 12And 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. 13And the evening and the
morning were the third day. 14And 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: 15And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16And 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. 17And God set them in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18And to rule over the day and over
the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was
good. 19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20And 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. 21And 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. 22And God blessed them,
saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl
multiply in the earth. 23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24And 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. 25And 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.
26And 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. 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them. 28And 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.
29And 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. 30And 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.
31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And
the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2
1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And 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. 3And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which
God created and made.
4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5And every
plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field
before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till the ground. 6But there went up a mist from the
earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7And the LORD God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.