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 the
waters which were under
the firmament from the
waters which wereabove 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 seed is 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.
The First Chapter of The
Holy Bible,
King James Translation
Creation
