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Genesis 1

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Genesis 1 New International Version

The Beginning

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the

earth. 2 Now the earth was 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 a vault between the

waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God
made the vault and separated the water under
the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
8 God called the vault “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 vault of the

sky to separate the day from the night, and let
them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and
days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the
vault 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 vault 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 vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great
creatures of the sea and every living thing with
which the water teems and that moves about in it,
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: the livestock,
the creatures that move along the ground, and
the 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 mankind in our

image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over
the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over
the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over
all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;
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 in the sea and the
birds in the sky 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 in the sky and all the
creatures that move along 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.

Footnotes

a. Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original

Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth

Genesis 2

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