1In the beginning God
created heaven and the earth.
2But the earth became desolate and deserted, and
there was darkness over the surface of the deep. Now the spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the water,
3and God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light,
4and God saw that the light
was good. Then God made a division between the light and the darkness,
5and God called the light day, whereas the darkness he called night. Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – day one.
6Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the water, and let it divide
one mass of water from
another mass of water”,
7and God made the expanse and divided the water which
was below the expanse from the water which
was above the expanse. And so it came about,
8and God called the expanse sky. Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the second day.
9Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And so it came about,
10and God called the dry land earth, whereas the accumulation of water he called seas. And God saw that
it was good.
11Then God said, “Let the earth produce grass, herbaceous vegetation bearing seed,
and the fruit
-bearing tree
which produces fruit according to its species, which
has its
own intrinsic seed, on the earth.” And so it came about,
12and the earth produced grass, herbaceous vegetation bearing seed according to its species, and the tree producing fruit, which
has its
own intrinsic seed according to its species. And God saw that
it was good.
13Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the third day.
14Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky, to divide the day from the night, and let them be as signs and for appointed times and for days and years,
15and they will serve as lights in the expanse of the sky, to shine on the earth.” And so it came about,
16and God made the two great lights, the greater light as a ruler of the day and the smaller light as a ruler of the night, and
also the stars.
17And God put them in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,
18and to rule by day and by night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that
it was good.
19Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the fourth day.
20Then God said, “Let the waters teem
with aquatic animals,
with living beings, and let birds fly above the earth, over the expanse of the sky”,
21and God created the great sea-monsters, and every living being that creeps, which the water teems
with, according to their species, and all the winged fowl according to its species. And God saw that
it was good.
22And God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
23Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the fifth day.
24Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their species, cattle and reptiles and beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it came about,
25and God made the beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle after their species, and all the reptiles of the ground according to their species. And God saw that
it was good.
26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and they will subdue the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and every reptile that crawls on the earth.”
27So God created man in his image. He created him in the image of God.
Male and female he created them.
28And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and subjugate it, and subdue the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and every animal that creeps over the earth.”
29Then God said, “Look, I have given you all vegetation bearing seed which
is on the surface of the whole earth, and every tree which
has fruit of the tree in it bearing seed. It will be for food for you,
30and for every beast of the earth, and for all birds of the sky, and for every reptile on the earth which
has the breath of life in it; all green vegetation
is for food.” And so it came about.
31And God saw everything that he had made, and the result
was that it was very good. Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the sixth day.
Reference(s) in Chapter 1: v.1 ↔ Revelation 14:7 ● v.27 ↔ Mark 10:6.