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. |
3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “I want light.” Straight away, light was shining everywhere. |
4 | GEN 1:4 | God looked at it, and he saw that it was good. So God split up the light and the dark. |
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. |
10 | GEN 1:10 | God called the dry ground land, and he called that water sea. God looked at the land and the sea, and he saw that everything was good. |
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. |
12 | GEN 1:12 | So all sorts of plants grew on the land, plants with seeds, and trees with fruit that have seeds inside. God looked at all those plants, and he saw that everything was good. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 3. |