Chapter One
The creation
1 In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided
divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening and the morning were the
second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and
the gathering together of the waters called he
Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seedis in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were
the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in
the firmament of the heaven to divide the
day from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the
earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness:
and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that
hath life, and fowl that may fly above the
earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth, which the
waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were
the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle,
and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after
his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and
every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb bearing seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to
you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to
every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is
life, I have given every green herb for meat:
and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had
made, and behold, it was very good. And the
evening and the morning were the sixth day.
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made; and he rested on
the seventh day from all his work which he
had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and
made.
Adam and Eve
4 These are the generations of the heavens
and of the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it
was in the earth, and every herb of the field
before it grew: for the Lord God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the
earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord
God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in
the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water
the garden; and from thence it was parted, and
became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it
which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: thereis bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon:
the same is it that compasseth the whole
land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel:
that is it which goeth toward the east
of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and
put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make
him a help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast of the field, and every fowl
of the air; and brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them: and whatsoever
Adam called every living creature, that was
the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of
the field; but for Adam there was not found a
help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took
one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and
brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be
called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man
and his wife, and were not ashamed.
The fall of man
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every
tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall
not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye
die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and
ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the treewas good for food, and that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did
eat, and gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat.
(Continues.)
