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Three Accounts of the Creation Parallel Texts of Genesis 1-2, Moses 2-3, and Abraham 4-5 Genesis 1 (KJV) Moses 2 Abraham 4 Three Accounts of the Creation Parallel Texts of Genesis 1-2, Moses 2-3, and Abraham 4-5 Genesis 1 (KJV) Moses 2 Abraham 4 1 In the beginning God created the 1 And it came to pass that the Lord 1 And then the Lord said: Let us go heaven and the earth. spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I down. And they went down at the reveal unto you concerning this beginning, and they, that is the heaven, and this earth; write the Gods, organized and formed the words which I speak. I am the heavens and the earth. (Abraham Beginning and the End, the 3:22-24) Almighty God; by mine Only Begotten I created these things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest. 2 And the earth, after it was formed, 2 And the earth was without form, 2 And the earth was without form, was empty and desolate, because and void; and darkness [was] upon and void; and I caused darkness to they had not formed anything but the the face of the deep. And the Spirit come up upon the face of the deep; earth; and darkness reigned upon the of God moved upon the face of the and my Spirit moved upon the face face of the deep, and the Spirit of the waters. of the water; for I am God. Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters. 3 And I, God, said: Let there be 3 And they (the Gods) said: Let there be light; and there was light. 3 And God said, Let there be light: light; and there was light (88:5-13). and there was light. 4 And I, God, saw the light; and that 4 And they (the Gods) 4 And God saw the light, that [it light was good. And I, God, divided comprehended the light, for it was ; and they divided the light, or was] good: and God divided the light the light from the darkness. bright from the darkness. caused it to be divided, from the darkness. 5 And I, God, called the light Day; 5 And the Gods called the light Day, 5 And God called the light Day, and and the darkness, I called Night; and and the darkness they called Night. the darkness he called Night. And this I did by the word of my And it came to pass that from the the evening and the morning were power, and it was done as I spake; evening until morning they called the first day. and the evening and the morning night; and from the morning until ; and were the first day. the evening they called day this was the first, or the beginning, of that which they called day and night. 6 And God said, Let there be a 6 And again, I, God, said: Let there 6 And the Gods also said: Let there firmament in the midst of the waters, be a firmament in the midst of the be an expanse in the midst of the and let it divide the waters from the water, and it was so, even as I spake; waters, and it shall divide the waters waters. and I said: Let it divide the waters from the waters. from the waters; and it was done; 7 And the Gods ordered the expanse, 7 And I, God, made the firmament so that it divided the waters which 7 And God made the firmament, and and divided the waters, yea, the great were under the expanse from the divided the waters which [were] waters under the firmament from the waters which were above the under the firmament from the waters waters which were above the expanse; and it was so, even as they which [were] above the firmament: firmament, and it was so even as I ordered. and it was so. spake. 8 And God called the firmament 8 And I, God, called the firmament 8 And the Gods called the expanse, Heaven. And the evening and the Heaven; and the evening and the Heaven. And it came to pass that it morning were the second day. morning were the second day. was from evening until morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called day; and this was the second time that they called night and day. 9 And God said, Let the waters 9 And I, God, said: Let the waters 9 And the Gods ordered, saying: under the heaven be gathered under the heaven be gathered Let the waters under the heaven be together unto one place, and let the together unto one place, and it was gathered together unto one place, and let the earth come up dry; and it dry [land] appear: and it was so. so; and I, God, said: Let there be dry was so as they ordered; land; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry [land] 10 And I, God, called the dry land 10 And the Gods pronounced the dry Earth; and the gathering together of Earth; and the gathering together of land, Earth; and the gathering the waters called he Seas: and God the waters, called I the Sea; and I, together of the waters, pronounced they, Great Waters; saw that [it was] good. God, saw that all things which I and the Gods saw that they were obeyed. had made were good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring 11 And I, God, said: Let the earth 11 And the Gods said: Let us forth grass, the herb yielding seed, bring forth grass, the herb yielding prepare the earth to bring forth grass; [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit, the herb yielding seed; the fruit tree his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, after his kind, and the tree yielding yielding fruit, after his kind, whose upon the earth: and it was so. fruit, whose seed should be in itself seed in itself yieldeth its own upon the earth, and it was so even as likeness upon the earth; and it was so, even as they ordered. I spake. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, 12 And the earth brought forth grass, 12 And the Gods organized the [and] herb yielding seed after his every herb yielding seed after his earth to bring forth grass from its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, kind, and the tree yielding fruit, own seed, and the herb to bring forth whose seed [was] in itself, after his whose seed should be in itself, after herb from its own seed, yielding kind: and God saw that [it was] his kind; and I, God, saw that all seed after his kind; and the earth to bring forth the tree from its own good. things which I had made were good; seed, yielding fruit, whose seed could only bring forth the same in itself, after his kind; and the Gods saw that they were obeyed. 13 And it came to pass that they 13 And the evening and the morning 13 And the evening and the morning numbered the days; from the were the third day. were the third day. evening until the morning they called night; and it came to pass, from the morning until the evening they called day; and it was the third time. 14 And I, God, said: Let there be 14 And God said, Let there be lights lights in the firmament of the 14 And the Gods organized the in the firmament of the heaven to heaven, to divide the day from the lights in the expanse of the heaven, divide the day from the night; and let night, and let them be for signs, and and caused them to divide the day them be for signs, and for seasons, for seasons, and for days, and for from the night; and organized them and for days, and years: years; to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years; 15 And let them be for lights in the 15 And let them be for lights in the 15 And organized them to be for firmament of the heaven to give light firmament of the heaven to give light lights in the expanse of the heaven to upon the earth: and it was so. upon the earth; and it was so. give light upon the earth; and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; 16 And I, God, made two great 16 And the Gods organized the the greater light to rule the day, and lights; the greater light to rule the two great lights, the greater light to the lesser light to rule the night: [he day, and the lesser light to rule the rule the day, and the lesser light to made] the stars also. night, and the greater light was the rule the night; with the lesser light sun, and the lesser light was the they set the stars also; moon; and the stars also were made even according to my word. 17 And God set them in the 17 And the Gods set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light 17 And I, God, set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon the earth, firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the upon the earth, day and over the night, and to cause to divide the light from the darkness.
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