THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED GENESIS. 1 IN the beginning God created the heaven and 2 the earth. And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the spirit of God 'moved upon the face Or, was 3 of the waters. And God said, Let there be brooding upon 4 light and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the 5 light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. 6 And God said, Let there be a 'firmament in 2 Heb. exthe midst of the waters, and let it divide the panse. 7 waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were 8 above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: 11 and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind, 1 Heb. swarm with swarms of living creatures. 2 Heb. on the face of the expanse of the heaven. wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and And God said, Let there be lights in the 14 And God said, Let the waters 'bring forth 20 abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created the 21 great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be 22 fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, 23 a fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the 24 living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind: 25 and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw 26 that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female 28 created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living 29 thing that 'moveth upon the earth. And God 1Or, creepeth said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for 30 meat and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: Heb. a 31 and it was so. And God saw every thing that living soul. he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. 2 I And the heaven and the earth were finished, 2 and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his 3 work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it: because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. |