1 | GEN 1:1 | First of all, a long time ago, God made everything. He made the sky, and he made the earth. He made all the things that are everywhere. |
2 | GEN 1:2 | The earth didn’t have any shape. It didn’t have anything. It was covered with deep water. Everything was dark. It was dark all over the water, but God’s spirit moved around on the top of the water. |
5 | GEN 1:5 | He called the light day time, and he called the dark night time. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 1. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | Then God said, “I want something to split the water in half.” |
7 | GEN 1:7 | So God made the sky to split the water in half. God left some of the water up high, and he left some of it on the ground, and he put the sky in the middle. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | And when God made it, he called it sky. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 2. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | Then God said, “I want all the water that is on the ground to come together to one place, and I want dry ground to come up.” Then the water moved to the places where God wanted it, and the dry ground came up. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | Then God said, “I want the land to grow all sorts of plants on the earth. I want plants with seeds, and trees with fruit that have seeds inside.” And God made it happen. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 3. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | Then God said, “I want some lights in the sky. I want the lights to split up the day time from the night time. They will show the time. They will show the season, and the time of the year, and the time of day. |
16 | GEN 1:16 | He made 2 big lights. He made one light brighter than the other light. That bright light shines in the day time. We call it the sun. The other light shines in the night time. We call it the moon. And God made the stars too. |
18 | GEN 1:18 | One light shines during the day, and another light shines at night. Those lights split the day time from the night time. God looked at those lights, and he saw that everything was good. |
19 | GEN 1:19 | After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 4. |
21 | GEN 1:21 | So God made all the different sorts of things that live and move in the sea. He made the great big sea animals and a lot of other things that live in the sea. And God made all the different sorts of birds too. God looked at all those things, and he saw that everything was good. |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God was good to them, and he said to them, “All of you living things will have lots of young ones, so that the sea will be full of fish, and lots of birds will fly around everywhere.” |
23 | GEN 1:23 | After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 5. |
24 | GEN 1:24 | Then God said, “I want the land to be full of all different sorts of animals. I want animals that are wild, and animals that are not wild. I want lizards, and insects, and other things that crawl around on the ground.” And God made it happen just like that. |
25 | GEN 1:25 | God made all the different sorts of animals, the animals that are wild and the animals that are not wild. And he made all the different sorts of lizards, and insects, and other things that crawl around on the ground. God looked at all those things, and he saw that everything was good. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | Then God said, “We are going to make people. They will be like us. They will be boss over the fish and everything that lives in the sea, and they will be boss over the birds that fly in the sky, and they will be boss over all the animals that are on the land, the animals that are wild, and the animals that are not wild, and all the lizards, and insects, and other things that crawl around on the ground. People will be boss over all of them.” |
27 | GEN 1:27 | So God made people to be like himself. He made them man and woman. |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God was good to them, and he said to them, “You will have lots of kids, and the earth will be full of people. You people will be boss over all the earth. You will be boss over the fish in the sea, and you will be boss over the birds in the sky, and you will be boss over all the animals that live on the land.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | Then God said to them, “Look, I made lots of food plants for you. I made plants that have seeds in them, and trees with fruit on them too. You can eat the seeds from those plants and the fruit from those trees. That bush tucker will be your food. |
30 | GEN 1:30 | And I made green plants too, for all the animals of the earth to eat, and for all the birds of the sky to eat, and for all the lizards, and insects, and other things that crawl around on the ground to eat too. Everything that breathes air can eat those green plants.” |
31 | GEN 1:31 | God looked at everything he made, and he saw that all of it was very good. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 6. |
32 | GEN 2:1 | God finished making everything. He finished making the sky, and the earth, and everything that is on the earth too. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | After God finished all that, it was day number 7, and God rested on that day. |
34 | GEN 2:3 | So God made day number 7 a good and special day. He said, “I’ve finished making everything now, and I’m resting on day number 7. So day number 7 is a special day.” |
35 | GEN 2:4 | This story is about the time when God made the earth and the sky. |
36 | GEN 2:5 | At first, God didn’t send any rain on the earth, and there were no people to make the ground right for the plants. So nothing was growing on the earth at that time. |
37 | GEN 2:6 | Water used to come up from under the ground and wet the top of all the ground. |
38 | GEN 2:7 | God took some dirt, and he made a man out of it. Then God breathed into the man’s nose, and God’s breath gave him life. So that man became a living person. |
39 | GEN 2:8 | Then God made a garden in a place called Eden. It was in the east part of the land. And God put the man in that garden. |
40 | GEN 2:9 | And God made some trees grow there in that garden. They were pretty, and they had fruit that was good to eat. And God put 2 special trees in the middle of the garden. If people eat the fruit of one of those trees, they will stay alive. And if they eat the fruit from the other tree, they will know if the things they do are good, or if they are bad. |
43 | GEN 2:12 | It was really good gold. And there were pretty stones, and a good-smelling gum that comes from a tree too. |
46 | GEN 2:15 | God put the man into the garden in Eden and gave him some work to do. He had to look after the garden and make sure all the plants grew strong and healthy. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | And God told the man, “You can eat fruit from the trees in this garden. |
48 | GEN 2:17 | There is only one tree that you can’t eat its fruit. You can’t eat the fruit from that tree that lets you know if the things you do are good, or if they are bad. I’m telling you, if you eat any fruit from that tree, you will die, for sure.” |
49 | GEN 2:18 | And God said, “It is not good for this man to be by himself. I’m going to make somebody else to be a mate for the man, somebody that will be good for him.” |