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1:1 At the beginning of when God created the heavens and the earth,^a 2 the earth was utterly desolate,^a darkness was above the primeval ocean, and the breath-wind of God^b moved over the waters.

3 God said,^a “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and God distinguished between the light and the darkness. 5 God called the light ‘day’, and the darkness he^a called ‘night’. It was evening, and it was morning. One day.

6 God said, “Let there be a vast plate^a in the middle of the waters, and may it continually separate^b waters from waters.” 7 God then made the plate and it then separated^a the waters that were below the plate from the waters above the plate. And it was so.^b 8 God called the plate ‘sky’.^a It was evening, and it was morning. A second day.

9 God said, “Let the waters that are below the heavenly plate continually assemble themselves^a into a single collecting place^b so that the dry ground^c appears.” And it was so. ^dThe waters that were under the heavenly plate assembled themselves into their gathering places, and the dry ground appeared.^d 10 God called the dry ground ‘earth’, and the gathering of the waters he called ‘seas’. And God saw that it was good.

11 God said, “Let the earth sprout forth sprouting plants^a—plants that yield seeds and^b fruit trees making fruit each according to its kind^c with internal seeds—on the earth.” And it was so. 12 The earth began to bring out sprouting plants, plants that yield seeds each according to its kind and trees making fruit with internal seeds each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 It was evening, and it was morning. A third day.

14 God said, “Let there be lights in the heavenly plate to distinguish between the day and the night, and they shall serve for signs, for festivals, for days and for years.^a 15 They shall be lights in the heavenly plate to illuminate the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the great light for rule over the day, and the small light for rule over the night, and also the stars. 17 And God set them in the heavenly plate to illuminate the earth, 18 to rule over the day and night and to distinguish between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 It was evening, and it was morning. A fourth day.

20 God said, “Let the waters continually bring forth a swarm of living beings, and may birds fly about above the earth under the heavenly plate.”^a 21 God created the great sea monsters, and all of the creeping living beings which swarm the waters according to their kinds, and each winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good, 22 and God blessed them, “May you be fruitful and multiply and fill^a the waters in the seas. And may the birds multiply on the earth.” 23 It was evening, and it was morning. A fifth day.

24 God said, “Let the earth continually bring forth living beings of every kind—domesticated animals, creeping things, and wild animals each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals of every kind, and the domesticated animals of every kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind, and God saw that it was good.

26 God said, “Let us make humankind^a as our image,^b similar to our likeness, so that^c they may rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the domesticated animals and all the earth,^d and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 And God created humankind as his image. As the image of God, he created humankind. Male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “May you be fruitful and multiply,^a and fill the earth and subdue it, and may you rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creeping being that creeps on the ground.” 29 And God said, “Look!^a I hereby give you every seed-bearing plant which is on the surface of the whole earth and every tree which has in it fruit^b bearing seed. For you^c it is to be food. 30 But for every animal of the earth and every bird of the air and every being that creeps on the earth, that has life in it—the green vegetation is for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and, indeed^a it was very good. It was evening, and it was morning. The sixth day.^b

2:1 And the heavens, the earth, and all their array^a were finished. 2 When God ­finished^a on the seventh day^b his work which he had done, he refrained^c on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy, because on it he refrained from all the work which God had created by doing it.^a