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GENESIS World’s creation in seven days 18to rule over the day and over the night, When God began to createa the heavens and to separate the light from the darkness. 1and the earth—2the earth was without God saw how good it was. shape or form, it was dark over the deep 19Th ere was evening and there was morn- sea, and God’s wind swept over the wa- ing: the fourth day. ters—3God said, “Let there be light.” And 20God said, “Let the waters swarm with so light appeared. 4God saw how good the living things, and let birds fl y above the earth light was. God separated the light from the up in the dome of the sky.” 21God created darkness. 5God named the light Day and the great sea animals and all the tiny living the darkness Night. things that swarm in the waters, each accord- Th ere was evening and there was morn- ing to its kind, and all the winged birds, each ing: the fi rst day. according to its kind. God saw how good it 6God said, “Let there be a dome in the was. 22Th en God blessed them: “Be fertile middle of the waters to separate the waters and multiply and fi ll the waters in the seas, from each other.” 7God made the dome and and let the birds multiply on the earth.” separated the waters under the dome from 23Th ere was evening and there was morn- the waters above the dome. And it happened ing: the fi fth day. in that way. 8God named the dome Sky. 24God said, “Let the earth produce every Th ere was evening and there was morn- kind of living thing: livestock, crawling ing: the second day. things, and wildlife.” And that’s what hap- 9God said, “Let the waters under the sky pened. 25God made every kind of wildlife, come together into one place so that the every kind of livestock, and every kind of dry land can appear.” And that’s what hap- creature that crawls on the ground. God pened. 10God named the dry land Earth, saw how good it was. 26Th en God said, and he named the gathered waters Seas. “Let us make humanity in our image to re- God saw how good it was. 11God said, “Let semble us so that they may take charge of the earth grow plant life: plants yielding the fi sh of the sea, the birds of the sky, the seeds and fruit trees bearing fruit with livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling seeds inside it, each according to its kind things on earth.” throughout the earth.” And that’s what 27 God created humanity happened. 12Th e earth produced plant life: in God’s own image, plants yielding seeds, each according to its in the divine image God created them,b kind, and trees bearing fruit with seeds in- male and female God created them. side it, each according to its kind. God saw 28God blessed them and said to them, how good it was. “Be fertile and multiply; fi ll the earth and 13Th ere was evening and there was morn- master it. Take charge of the fi sh of the sea, ing: the third day. the birds of the sky, and everything crawl- 14God said, “Let there be lights in the ing on the ground.” 29Th en God said, “I now dome of the sky to separate the day from give to you all the plants on the earth that the night. Th ey will mark events, sacred sea- yield seeds and all the trees whose fruit sons, days, and years. 15Th ey will be lights in produces its seeds within it. Th ese will be the dome of the sky to shine on the earth.” your food. 30To all wildlife, to all the birds And that’s what happened. 16God made the of the sky, and to everything crawling on stars and two great lights: the larger light the ground—to everything that breathes— to rule over the day and the smaller light I give all the green grasses for food.” And to rule over the night. 17God put them in that’s what happened. 31God saw every- the dome of the sky to shine on the earth, thing he had made: it was supremely good. aOr In the beginning, God created bHeb has singular him, referring to humanity. Genesis 2:1 2 Th ere was evening and there was morn- of the garden’s trees; 17but don’t eat from ing: the sixth day. the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because on the day you eat from it, you will Th e heavens and the earth and all who die!” 18Th en the Lord God said, “It’s not 2live in them were completed. 2On the good that the human is alone. I will make sixthc day God completed all the work that he him a helper that is perfect for him.” 19So had done, and on the seventh day God rested the Lord God formed from the fertile land from all the work that he had done. 3God all the wild animals and all the birds in the blessed the seventh day and made it holy, be- sky and brought them to the human to see cause on it God rested from all the work of what he would name them. Th e human gave creation.d 4Th is is the account of the heavens each living being its name. 20Th e human and the earth when they were created. named all the livestock, all the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals. But a helper World’s creation in the garden perfect for him was nowhere to be found. On the day the Lord God made earth 21So the Lord God put the human into and sky—5before any wild plants appeared a deep and heavy sleep, and took one of his on the earth, and before any fi eld crops ribs and closed up the fl esh over it. 22With grew, because the Lord God hadn’t yet the rib taken from the human, the Lord sent rain on the earth and there was still God fashioned a woman and brought her to no human beinge to farm the fertile land, the human being. 23Th e humani said, 6though a stream rose from the earth and “Th is one fi nally is bone from my bones watered all of the fertile land—7the Lord and fl esh from my fl esh. God formed the humanf from the topsoil She will be called a womanj of the fertile landg and blew life’s breath because from a mank she was taken.” into his nostrils. Th e human came to life. 24Th is is the reason that a man leaves his 8Th e Lord God planted a garden in Eden father and mother and embraces his wife, in the east and put there the human he had and they become one fl esh. 25Th e two of formed. 9In the fertile land, the Lord God them were naked, the man and his wife, but grew every beautiful tree with edible fruit, they weren’t embarrassed. and also he grew the tree of life in the mid- dle of the garden and the tree of the knowl- Knowledge, not eternal life edge of good and evil. Th e snake was the most intelligentl of 10A river fl ows from Eden to water the 3all the wild animals that the Lord God garden, and from there it divides into four had made. He said to the woman, “Did God headwaters. 11Th e name of the fi rst river is really say that you shouldn’t eat from any the Pishon. It fl ows around the entire land tree in the garden?” of Havilah, where there is gold. 12Th at land’s 2Th e woman said to the snake, “We may gold is pure, and the land also has sweet- eat the fruit of the garden’s trees 3but not smelling resins and gemstones.h 13Th e the fruit of the tree in the middle of the gar- name of the second river is the Gihon. It den. God said, ‘Don’t eat from it, and don’t fl ows around the entire land of Cush. 14Th e touch it, or you will die.’ ” name of the third river is the Tigris, fl owing 4Th e snake said to the woman, “You east of Assyria; and the name of the fourth won’t die! 5God knows that on the day you river is the Euphrates. eat from it, you will see clearly and you will 15Th e Lord God took the human and be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6Th e settled him in the garden of Eden to farm it woman saw that the tree was beautiful and to take care of it. 16Th e Lord God com- with delicious food and that the tree would manded the human, “Eat your fi ll from all provide wisdom, so she took some of its cLXX, Sam, Syr; MT seventh dOr from all his work, which God created to do eOr man (Heb adam) fHeb adam gHeb adamah hHeb uncertain iOr man (Heb adam) jOr wife (Heb ishshah) kOr husband (Heb ish) lHeb sounds like naked. 3 Genesis 4:7 fruit and ate it, and also gave some to her cursed is the ground because of you; husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

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