2 | GEN 1:2 | The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters. |
4 | GEN 1:4 | God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. |
5 | GEN 1:5 | God called the light “day,” and he called the darkness “night.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day one. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters to divide the waters.” |
7 | GEN 1:7 | So God made an expanse to divide the waters that were above from the waters that were below. And that's what happened. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | God called the expanse, “sky.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day two. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | God said, “Let the waters below the sky collect together in one place so that the land may appear.” And so it was. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | So there was evening, and then the morning, making day three. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night, and to provide a way to mark seasons, days, and years. |
16 | GEN 1:16 | God created two great lights: the larger one in charge of the day, and the smaller one in charge of the night. He created the stars too. |
18 | GEN 1:18 | to be in charge of the day and in charge of the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good. |
19 | GEN 1:19 | So there was evening, and then the morning, making day four. |
21 | GEN 1:21 | So God created huge sea creatures and all the living things that swim and fill the waters, each one according to its own kind; and every bird that flies, each one according to its own kind. God saw that it was good. |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God blessed them and said, “Reproduce and increase, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” |
23 | GEN 1:23 | So there was evening, and then the morning, making day five. |
24 | GEN 1:24 | God said, “Let the land produce living creatures, each one according to its own kind—the livestock, the creatures that run along the ground, and the wild animals, each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened. |
25 | GEN 1:25 | God made the wild animals, the livestock, and the creatures that run along the ground, all according to their own kind. God saw that it was good. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.” |
27 | GEN 1:27 | So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female. |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | God said, “Look, I'm giving you as your food every seed-bearing plant anywhere on earth, and every tree that produces fruit with seeds. |
30 | GEN 1:30 | I'm giving all the green plants to all the land animals, to the birds, and to every creature that moves on the earth—to every living thing.” And that's what happened. |
31 | GEN 1:31 | God saw everything that he had created, and yes, it was very good. So there was evening, and then the morning, making day six. |
32 | GEN 2:1 | The creation of the heavens, the earth, and everything in them was complete. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | By the time the seventh day came, God had finished the work he'd done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work he'd been doing. |
34 | GEN 2:3 | God blessed the seventh day, and set it apart as holy, because he rested from all the work he'd done in creation. |
35 | GEN 2:4 | This is the account of the Lord God's creation when he made the heavens and the earth. |
37 | GEN 2:6 | Dew came up from the earth and made the whole surface of the ground wet. |
38 | GEN 2:7 | The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being. |
39 | GEN 2:8 | The Lord planted a garden in Eden, in the east. There he put the man Adam he had created. |
40 | GEN 2:9 | The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow in the garden, beautiful trees and trees producing fruit that's good to eat. The tree of life was in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. |
41 | GEN 2:10 | A river flowed out from Eden to water the garden. From there it split into four branches. |
43 | GEN 2:12 | (The gold from that land is pure. Bdellium and onyx stone are also found there.) |
46 | GEN 2:15 | The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and care for it. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | The Lord God ordered Adam, “You are free to eat fruit from every tree in the garden, |
48 | GEN 2:17 | but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the day you eat from it you are certain to die.” |
49 | GEN 2:18 | Then the Lord God said, “It's not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that's like him.” |
50 | GEN 2:19 | The Lord God used the ground to make all the wild animals, and all the birds. He took them all to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam named every living creature. |
51 | GEN 2:20 | Adam gave names to all the livestock, all the birds, and all the wild animals. But Adam didn't find anyone like him who could help him. |
52 | GEN 2:21 | So the Lord God put Adam into a deep sleep and as he slept the Lord God removed one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place where he took it with body tissue. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he'd taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam. |
54 | GEN 2:23 | “Finally!” said Adam. “Here is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.” |
55 | GEN 2:24 | This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being. |
56 | GEN 2:25 | Adam and his wife Eve were both naked, but they weren't embarrassed about it. |