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.
8	GEN 1:8	God called the wide space “Sky.” Then night came. That was the second night. Then a new day dawned and it was morning.
9	GEN 1:9	And God spoke again. “Let the water come together in one place,” he said, “so that the earth can appear.” Then the water came together in one place and the earth appeared.
10	GEN 1:10	God called the earth “Dry land.” And the water that came together he called “Sea.” And God looked and saw that the dry land and the sea were both good.
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.”
12	GEN 1:12	Then trees and other plants grew on the land. God looked and saw that the trees and plants were all good.
13	GEN 1:13	Then night came. That was the third night. Then a new day dawned and it was morning.
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.”
16	GEN 1:16	Then God made two big lights. He made the sun and put it in the sky, so that it would light up the world and rule over the day. Then he made the moon and put it in the sky to rule over the night. And then he made all the stars. He made the two big lights so that the light and the darkness would be separate. Then God looked and saw that the sun and the moon and the stars were all good.
19	GEN 1:19	Then night came. That was the fourth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning.
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.
23	GEN 1:23	Then night came. That was the fifth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning.
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.”
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.
31	GEN 1:31	And God looked and saw that all the things he had made were good. Then night came. That was the sixth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning.
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.
39	GEN 2:8	Then Yahweh God planted trees and other plants in a place called Eden, in the east. And there he put the man he had made.
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.
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.”