⇑  •  Genesis 1 (WEB)   ⇒

 1In the beginning God created
    the heavens and the earth.
     {After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav"
    (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.}

 2Now the earth was formless and empty.
  Darkness was on the surface of the deep.
  God's Spirit was hovering over
    the surface of the waters.

 3God said,
    "Let there be light,"
    and there was light.
 4God saw the light, and saw that it was good.
  God divided the light from the darkness.
 5God called the light Day, and
    the darkness he called Night.
  There was evening and there was morning, one day.

 6God said,
  "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters,
    and let it divide the waters from the waters."
 7God made the expanse, and
      divided the waters which were under the expanse
      from the waters which were above the expanse;
    and it was so.
 8God called the expanse sky.
  There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

 9God said,
    "Let the waters under the sky
      be gathered together to one place, and
    let the dry land appear;"
  and it was so.
10God called the dry land Earth,
    and the gathering together of the waters
      he called Seas.
  God saw that it was good.
11God said,
    "Let the earth put forth
      grass, herbs yielding seed, and
      fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,
        with its seed in it, on the earth;"
  and it was so.
12The earth brought forth
    grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and
    trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it,
      after their kind and
  God saw that it was good.
13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14God said,
    "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky
      to divide the day from the night; and
    let them be for signs, and for seasons,
        and for days and years; 15and
    let them be for lights in the expanse of sky
      to give light on the earth;"
  and it was so.
16God made the two great lights:
    the greater light to rule the day, and
    the lesser light to rule the night.
   He also made the stars.
17God set them in the expanse of sky
    to give light to the earth, 18and
    to rule over the day and over the night, and
    to divide the light from the darkness.
  God saw that it was good.
19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20God said,
    "Let the waters swarm
        with swarms of living creatures, and
    let birds fly above the earth
        in the open expanse of sky."
21God created the large sea creatures, and
    every living creature that moves,
          with which the waters swarmed,
      after their kind, and
    every winged bird
      after its kind.
  God saw that it was good.
22God blessed them, saying,
    "Be fruitful, and multiply,and
      fill the waters in the seas, and
      let birds multiply on the earth."
23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24God said,
    "Let the earth bring forth living creatures
        after their kind,
      livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth
        after their kind;"
  and it was so.
25God made
    the animals of the earth after their kind, and
    the livestock after their kind, and
    everything that creeps on the ground after its kind.
  God saw that it was good.

26God 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 birds of the sky, and
      over the livestock, and
      over all the earth, and
      over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27God created man in his own image.
  In God's image he created him;
    male and female he created them.
28God blessed them.
  God said to them,
    "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.
    Have dominion
      over the fish of the sea,
      over the birds of the sky, and
      over every living thing that moves on the earth."
29God said,
    "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed,
      which is on the surface of all the earth, and
      every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed.
      It will be your food.
30 To every animal of the earth, and
    to every bird of the sky, and
    to everything that creeps on the earth,
        in which there is life,
      I have given every green herb for food;"
  and it was so.

31God saw everything that he had made, and,
  behold, it was very good.
  There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.   ⇒