2 | GEN 1:2 | When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate/chaotic. Darkness covered the deep water that surrounded the earth. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water. |
5 | GEN 1:5 | He gave to the light the name ‘day’, and he gave to the darkness the name ‘night’. After that, there was an evening which was followed by a morning. He called that whole period of time ‘the first day’. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | Then God said, “I command that there be an empty space like a huge dome to separate the water that is above it from the water on the earth that is below it!” |
7 | GEN 1:7 | And that is what happened. God gave to the space the name ‘sky’. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | Then there was another evening, which was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the second day’. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | Then God said, “I want the water that is below the sky to come together, and dry ground to appear and rise above the water.” And that is what happened. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | Then there was another evening which was followed by another morning. God called that period of time ‘the third day’. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | Then God said, “I want a sun, a moon, and many stars to shine in the sky. The sun will shine in the daytime and the moon and stars will shine during the nighttime. By the changes in their appearance they will indicate the various seasons (OR, the times for special celebrations), and will enable people to know when days and years begin. |
15 | GEN 1:15 | I want them also to be like lights in the sky that will shine on the earth.” And that is what happened. |
16 | GEN 1:16 | God made two of them that were like big lights. The bigger one, the sun, shines during the day and the smaller one, the moon, shines during the night. He also made the stars. |
17 | GEN 1:17 | God set all of them in the sky to shine on the earth, |
18 | GEN 1:18 | to rule the day and the night, and to separate the light of the daytime from the darkness of the nighttime. God was pleased with these things he had made. |
19 | GEN 1:19 | Then there was another evening which was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the fourth day’. |
20 | GEN 1:20 | Then God said, “I want many creatures to live in all the oceans, and I also want birds to fly in the sky above the earth.” |
21 | GEN 1:21 | So God created huge sea creatures and every other kind of creature that moves in the water, and caused them to live in all the oceans. He also created many kinds of birds. God was pleased with all those creatures. |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God blessed them. He said, “Produce offspring and become very numerous. I want the creatures in the water to live in all the oceans, and birds also to become very numerous.” And that is what happened. |
23 | GEN 1:23 | Then there was another evening that was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the fifth day’. |
24 | GEN 1:24 | Then God said, “I want various kinds of creatures to appear on the earth. There will be many kinds of ◄livestock/domestic animals►, creatures that scurry across the ground, and large wild animals.” And that is what happened. |
25 | GEN 1:25 | God made all kinds of wild animals and ◄livestock/domestic animals► and all kinds of creatures that scurry across the ground. God was pleased with all these creatures. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | Then God said, “Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the ◄livestock/domestic animals►, and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground.” |
27 | GEN 1:27 | So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female. |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | God said to the humans, “Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat. |
30 | GEN 1:30 | I have given all the green plants to all the wild animals and to the birds and to all the creatures that scurry across the ground, to everything that breathes, for them to eat.” And that is what happened. |
31 | GEN 1:31 | God was pleased with everything that he had made. Truly, it was all very good. Then there was another evening, that was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the sixth day’. |
32 | GEN 2:1 | That is the way God created the heavens and the earth. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | By the time it was the seventh day, God had finished the work of creating everything, so he did not work any more on that day. |
34 | GEN 2:3 | God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything. |
36 | GEN 2:5 | At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops. |
40 | GEN 2:9 | Yahweh God also put there every kind of tree that is beautiful to see and that produced fruit that was good to eat. He also placed in the middle of the park/garden a tree whose fruit would enable those who ate it to live forever. He also placed there another tree whose fruit would enable those who ate it to know what actions were good to do and what actions were evil to do. |
43 | GEN 2:12 | That gold ◄is very pure/has no impurities in it►. There is also a sweet-smelling gum called bdellium, and valuable stones called onyx. |
45 | GEN 2:14 | The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows east of the city of Asshur. The name of the fourth river is Euphrates. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | But Yahweh said to him, “You must not eat the fruit of the tree that will enable you to know what actions are good to do and what actions are evil to do. If you eat any fruit from that tree, on that day your relationship with me will end. But I will permit you to eat the fruit of any of the other trees in the park/garden.” |
52 | GEN 2:21 | So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man’s ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body and healed it. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man. |
54 | GEN 2:23 | The man exclaimed, “Wow! This is truly ◄someone like me/what I was looking for!► She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man.” |
55 | GEN 2:24 | The first woman was taken from the man’s body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person. |
56 | GEN 2:25 | Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about that. |
57 | GEN 3:1 | The snake was more cunning than all the other wild animals that Yahweh God had made. One day Satan gave to the snake the ability to talk to the woman. The snake said to her, “Did God really say to you, ‘Do not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the park/garden’?” |
58 | GEN 3:2 | The woman replied, “What God said was, ‘Do not eat the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the park/garden or touch it. If you do that, you will die. But you can eat fruit from any of the other trees.’” |
60 | GEN 3:4 | The snake said to the woman, “No, you will certainly not die. God said that |
61 | GEN 3:5 | only because he knows that when you eat fruit from that tree, you will understand new things. It will be as though your eyes are opened [MET], and you will know what is good to do and what is evil to do, just as God does.” |
62 | GEN 3:6 | The woman saw that the fruit on that tree was good to eat, and it was very beautiful, and she desired it because she thought it would make her wise. So she picked some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he ate it. |
63 | GEN 3:7 | Immediately it was as though their eyes were opened, and they realized that they were naked, so they were ashamed. So they picked some fig leaves and fastened them together to make clothes for themselves. |