1	GEN 1:1	In the very beginning, long, long ago, God made the earth below and the heavens above. At the time when God first started creating the world,
2	GEN 1:2	it was all watery. Water covered everything and that was all. There was no dry land yet, only water, and it was dark. It was dark just like a cave is dark inside at night. But the spirit of God was moving over the water.
4	GEN 1:4	God looked and saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
5	GEN 1:5	He called the light “Day” and the darkness “Night.” Then night came. That was the first night. Then a new day dawned and it was morning.
6	GEN 1:6	Then God spoke again. “Let the water separate, half above and half below.”
7	GEN 1:7	Then God separated the water below from the water above so that there was a wide space in the middle.
11	GEN 1:11	Then God spoke again. “Let different kinds of trees and other plants grow on the land. The plants will give seeds and the different kinds of trees will give fruit.”
14	GEN 1:14	Then God spoke again. “Let lights come out in the sky. Let them light up the world, so that the day is separate from the night, and so that all the days are separate. Day and night will follow one after the other. And let them light up the world, so that the dry season will be separate from the wet season. The dry season and the wet season will also follow one after the other.”
19	GEN 1:19	Then night came. That was the fourth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning.
20	GEN 1:20	Then God spoke again. “Let many different kinds of fish fill the sea, and let birds fly in the sky.”
21	GEN 1:21	So God made creatures like big whales and dugongs and groper and other kinds of fish that filled the sea. And he made birds. Then God looked and saw that they were all good.
22	GEN 1:22	Then God blessed the sea creatures and the birds. He said to the fish, “Increase and fill the sea,” and to the birds, “Increase!”
23	GEN 1:23	Then night came. That was the fifth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning.
24	GEN 1:24	Then God spoke again. “Let there be different kinds of animals and snakes, big ones and little ones, on the earth.”
25	GEN 1:25	So he made the different animals and snakes, big ones and little ones. Then God looked and saw that they were all good.
26	GEN 1:26	Then God spoke again. “Now we will make people and they will be like us. And they will rule over the fish and the birds and the animals and the snakes.”
27	GEN 1:27	So God created people, making them like himself. He created them male and female.
28	GEN 1:28	And then he blessed them and said to them, “Have children, and let them have children too, so that they can live in the world and rule over it. You will rule over the fish and the birds and the animals.
29	GEN 1:29	“I have made all kinds of food for you, seeds that the grasses provide and fruit that the trees provide, for you to eat.
30	GEN 1:30	And I have given plants to the animals and to the birds for their food.”
32	GEN 2:1	In that way God made the world and the sky and everything on the earth and in the sky and in the sea. And then he finished his work.
33	GEN 2:2	He worked for six days from when he started until he finished it all, and then he stopped working.
34	GEN 2:3	Then he said, “This seventh day I am resting. So this day is different. It will be separate from the other days, because I have rested from my work today. This is my holy day.”
35	GEN 2:4	That is how God made the world. At first when Yahweh God made the world,
36	GEN 2:5	there were no plants on the land and no seeds had started to grow. And he hadn't yet made the rain fall on the ground. And there were no people to grow trees and plants.
37	GEN 2:6	But water kept coming up out of the ground and it watered the land.
38	GEN 2:7	Then Yahweh God took some soil and made a man from it. He blew his breath into the man's nose so that he could live. And the man came alive.
40	GEN 2:9	It was a beautiful place because Yahweh God had planted all kinds of trees that were lovely to look at, and that provided good fruit. In the middle of all those fruit trees and other plants Yahweh God planted one tree that gives life and one tree that gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad.
41	GEN 2:10	A river flowed in Eden and watered the ground. It flowed on further and divided into four.
42	GEN 2:11	One of the rivers is called Pishon, the one that flows through the land called Havilah.
43	GEN 2:12	In that place there is beautiful gold under the ground and other precious stones and also sweet-smelling perfume.
44	GEN 2:13	Another river called Gihon flows through the land of Cush.
45	GEN 2:14	Another river called Tigris flows to the east through the land of Assyria and further on. And another river is called Euphrates. They are the four rivers.
46	GEN 2:15	Yahweh God put the man there in Eden so that he could grow food and look after the place.
47	GEN 2:16	He said to him, “You can eat the fruit from any of the trees,
48	GEN 2:17	except one. This tree gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad and you mustn't eat its fruit. If you do eat it you will die the same day.”
49	GEN 2:18	Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to live alone. So I will make a helper to be with him.”
50	GEN 2:19	So Yahweh God took some soil and made animals and birds out of it. He brought the animals and birds to the man so that he could name them all.
51	GEN 2:20	So the man named the animals and the birds, but none of them was a good helper for him.
52	GEN 2:21	Then Yahweh God made the man go to sleep. He went fast asleep and while he was sleeping Yahweh God took a rib from him and closed up his flesh.
53	GEN 2:22	He made a woman out of the rib and he brought her to him.
54	GEN 2:23	The man said, “Ah! Here is someone like me! My bone is in her, and also my flesh. Yahweh God has made this person from a man today, so her name is ‘Woman.’”
55	GEN 2:24	So because of that a man will leave his father and his mother to live with his wife, and then they will become one.
57	GEN 3:1	When Yahweh God made all the animals, there was one snake that was very good at tricking people. It was better than all the other animals. The snake went to the woman and spoke to her. “God said to you, ‘Don't eat the fruit of any of these trees.’ Did he really say that?”
58	GEN 3:2	“No,” said the woman. “We can eat fruit from these trees,
59	GEN 3:3	but we can't eat the fruit from just one tree in the middle. God told us, ‘Don't eat the fruit of that tree and don't touch it.’ If we touch it we will die.”
61	GEN 3:5	God said that to you because he knows that if you eat that fruit you will be like God, and you will know what is good and what is bad.”
62	GEN 3:6	Then the woman looked at the tree and saw that it was beautiful. She thought, “It would be good if I could eat this fruit. And it would be good to be wise.” And so she took some and ate it and gave some to her husband. Then he ate some too.
63	GEN 3:7	After they had eaten it, suddenly their minds were opened and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed some fig leaves together and put them on.
64	GEN 3:8	When the sun was setting they heard Yahweh God coming and they hid from him among the trees.