1:1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

1:2  The earth appeared formless and void, and darkness covered over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

1:3  Then God said, "Let light come"; and light came.

1:4  God saw that the light appeared good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

1:5  God called the light day, and the darkness He called night And there He marked evening and there He marked morning, one day.

1:6  Then God said, "Let there emerge an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."

1:7  God made the expanse, and separated the waters which located below the expanse from the waters which located above the expanse; and it came to pass.

1:8  God called the expanse heaven. And there He marked evening and there He marked morning, a second day.

1:9  Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens gather into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it came to pass.

1:10  God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it seemed good.

1:11  Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it came to pass.

1:12  The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it appeared good.

1:13  There He marked evening and there He marked morning, a third day.

1:14  Then God said, "Let there become lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years;

1:15  and let them serve for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it came to pass.

1:16  God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

1:17  God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

1:18  and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it appeared good.

1:19  There He marked evening and there He marked morning, a fourth day.

1:20  Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."

1:21  God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it appeared good.

1:22  God blessed them, saying, "Become fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

1:23  There He marked evening and there He marked morning, a fifth day.

1:24  Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it came to pass.

1:25  God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it appeared good.

1:26  Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

1:27  God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

1:28  God blessed them; and God said to them, "Become fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

1:29  Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that grows on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall serve as food for you;

1:30  and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it came to pass.

1:31  God saw all that He had made, and behold, it seemed very good. And there He marked evening and there He marked morning, the sixth day.