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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15	GEN 1:15	I will put these lights in the sky to shine on the earth.” So God did that.
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.
17	GEN 1:17	God put all those lights in the sky to shine on the earth.
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.
20	GEN 1:20	Then God said, “I want the water to be full of fish and all sorts of living things. And I want birds that fly around in the sky, above the earth.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
42	GEN 2:11	The 1st river was called Pishon. It flowed around the land called Havilah. In that country there was lots of gold.
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.
44	GEN 2:13	The 2nd river was called Gihon. It flowed all around the country called Cush.
45	GEN 2:14	The 3rd river was called Tigris. It flowed east of the country called Assyria. The 4th river was called Euphrates.
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.
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.”
50	GEN 2:19	And God made all the animals and birds out of dirt from the ground, and he brought them to the man. God wanted the man to give all the animals and birds their names. The man could say any name he wanted for each one, and those names stayed with them.
52	GEN 2:21	So God made the man go to sleep. It was a really strong deep sleep. And while he was asleep, God took out one of his rib bones. Then God closed up the place where that rib was.
54	GEN 2:23	The man looked at that woman, and he said, “This is really good. Now I have a mate. God took out a part of my body, and he made it into a mate for me. Yes, he used my rib bone to make her. God made her out of a man’s body, so I’m going to call her woman.”
55	GEN 2:24	That’s how God made a woman, he made her out of a man’s body. That is the reason why a man will leave his mother and father and marry a woman. The man and his wife will join with each other, and their bodies will be like one body.
56	GEN 2:25	The man and his wife didn’t have any clothes on. They were both naked, but they didn’t feel any shame.
57	GEN 3:1	God made lots of animals, but the snake was the animal that had the most brains. He was really smart. One day, the snake went to the woman and said to her, “Did God say, ‘You can’t eat fruit from any of the trees in the garden’? Is that true?”
59	GEN 3:3	God said that there is only one tree that we can’t eat from. We can’t eat any fruit that comes from one of the trees that is in the middle of the garden. God will not even let us touch that tree. He said that if we eat fruit from that tree, we will die.”
61	GEN 3:5	God knows what will happen if you eat fruit from that tree. He knows that if you eat fruit from that tree, you will know more things, like God himself. You will know if the things you do are good, or if they are bad.”
62	GEN 3:6	The woman looked at that tree. It was pretty, and the fruit on that tree looked really good to eat, and she reckoned that if she eats some of that fruit, she will think properly. So the woman got some of that fruit, and she ate it, and she gave some of it to her husband, and he ate that fruit too.
63	GEN 3:7	Straight away, the man and the woman knew more things. They knew that they were naked, and they felt shame. They wanted to make clothes to cover up their naked bodies, so they picked some big leaves from a tree and sewed the leaves together to make some clothes.