1 | GEN 1:1 | In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. |
2 | GEN 1:2 | The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. |
3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. |
4 | GEN 1:4 | God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. |
5 | GEN 1:5 | God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” |
7 | GEN 1:7 | God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. |
10 | GEN 1:10 | God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. |
12 | GEN 1:12 | The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | There was evening and there was morning, a third day. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; |
15 | GEN 1:15 | and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. |
16 | GEN 1:16 | God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. |
17 | GEN 1:17 | God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, |
18 | GEN 1:18 | and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. |