1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without shape and empty, and darkness lay upon the face of the deep, while the Spirit of God hovered above the face of the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 God saw the light, that it was good, and God made a division between the light and the darkness.
5 God named the light Day, and the darkness he named Night. Evening came, and morning came: day one.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters."
7 God made the expanse and divided between the waters below the expanse and the waters above the expanse. And so it was.
8 God named the expanse Heaven. Evening came, and morning came: a second day.
9 And God said, "Let the waters beneath the heavens be collected into one place, and let the dry ground be seen." And so it was.
10 God named the dry ground Earth, and the collected waters he named Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, "Let the earth put forth green growth: plants that produce seed, and fruit trees on the earth that make fruit after their kind, with their seed in it." And so it was.
12 So the earth put forth green growth: plants producing seed after their kind, and trees making fruit with their seed in it, after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 Evening came, and morning came: a third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night; let them serve as signs and for fixed seasons, and for days and years,
15 and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth." And so it was.
16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night, and the stars as well.
17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth,
18 to govern by day and by night and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 Evening came, and morning came: a fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth, across the face of the expanse of the heavens."
21 God created the huge sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teem, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase; fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."
23 Evening came, and morning came: a fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of the earth after their kind." And so it was.
25 God made the wild animals of the earth after their kind, the cattle after their kind, and all that creeps on the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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 the birds of the heavens, over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
27 God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and increase, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that creeps on the earth."
29 And God said, "Look, I have given you every plant that bears seed across the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit has seed in it; you shall have them for food.
30 And to every animal of the earth, to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth that has a living soul in it, I give every green plant as food." And so it was.
31 Then God looked at all that he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came, and morning came: the sixth day.