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GENESIS
World's creation in seven days
18 to rule over the day and over the night, When God began to create the heavens and to separate the light from the darkness.
and the earth— the earth was without God saw how good it was. shape or form, it was dark over the deep 'There was evening and there was mornsea, and God's wind swept over the wa- ing: the fourth day. ters—God said, “Let there be light." And 20 God said, “Let the waters swarm with so light appeared. “God saw how good the living things, and let birds fly above the earth light was. God separated the light from the up in the dome of the sky.” 2God created darkness. God named the light Day and the great sea animals and all the tiny living the darkness Night.
things that swarm in the waters, each accordThere was evening and there was morn- ing to its kind, and all the winged birds, each ing: the first day.
according to its kind. God saw how good it God said, “Let there be a dome in the was. 22 Then God blessed them: “Be fertile middle of the waters to separate the waters and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, from each other." God made the dome and and let the birds multiply on the earth.” separated the waters under the dome from 23 There was evening and there was mornthe waters above the dome. And it happened ing: the fifth day. in that way. God named the dome Sky. 24God said, “Let the earth produce every
There was evening and there was morn- kind of living thing: livestock, crawling ing: the second day.
things, and wildlife.” And that's what hap'God said, “Let the waters under the skypened. 25 God made every kind of wildlife, come together into one place so that the every kind of livestock, and every kind of dry land can appear.” And that's what hap- creature that crawls on the ground. God pened. 10 God named the dry land Earth, saw how good it was. 26 Then God said, and he named the gathered waters Seas. “Let us make humanity in our image to reGod saw how good it was. "God said, “Let semble us so that they may take charge of the earth grow plant life: plants yielding the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the seeds and fruit trees bearing fruit with livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling seeds inside it, each according to its kind things on earth." throughout the earth.” And that's what 27 God created humanity happened. The earth produced plant life: in God's own image, plants yielding seeds, each according to its in the divine image God created them, kind, and trees bearing fruit with seeds in- male and female God created them. side it, each according to its kind. God saw 28 God blessed them and said to them, how good it was.
"Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and 13 There was evening and there was morn- master it. Take charge of the fish of the sea, ing: the third day.
the birds of the sky, and everything crawlGod said, “Let there be lights in the ing on the ground." 29Then God said, “I now dome of the sky to separate the day from give to you all the plants on the earth that the night. They will mark events, sacred sea- yield seeds and all the trees whose fruit sons, days, and years. They will be lights in produces its seeds within it. These will be the dome of the sky to shine on the earth.” your food. 30 To all wildlife, to all the birds And that's what happened. God made the of the sky, and to everything crawling on stars and two great lights: the larger light the ground-to everything that breathesto rule over the day and the smaller light I give all the green grasses for food.” And to rule over the night. "God put them in that's what happened. 31 God saw everythe dome of the sky to shine on the earth, thing he had made: it was supremely good.
o Or In the beginning, God created "Heb has singular him, referring to humanity.
