1:1In the beginning
God created the heavens
and the earth. 1:2Now the earth was
formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God’s Spirit was
hovering over the surface of the waters.
1:3God said, “Let there
be light,” and there was light. 1:4God saw the light, and
saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.1:5God called the light
Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning,
one day.
1:6God said, “Let there
be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the
waters.” 1:7God made the expanse,
and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were
above the expanse, and it was so. 1:8God called the expanse
sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
1:9God said, “Let the
waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land
appear,” and it was so. 1:10God called the dry
land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw
that it was good. 1:11God said, “Let the
earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after
their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth,” and it was
so. 1:12The earth brought
forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with
its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was
good. 1:13There was evening and
there was morning, a third day.
1:14God said, “Let there
be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 1:15and let them be for
lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth,” and it was
so. 1:16God made the two great
lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night. He also made the stars. 1:17God set them in the
expanse of sky to give light to the earth, 1:18and to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that
it was good. 1:19There was evening and
there was morning, a fourth day.
1:20God said, “Let the
waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
in the open expanse of sky.” 1:21God created the large
sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters
swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it
was good. 1:22God blessed them,
saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
birds multiply on the earth.” 1:23There was evening and
there was morning, a fifth day.
1:24God said, “Let the
earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things,
and animals of the earth after their kind,” and it was
so. 1:25God made the animals
of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything
that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
1:26God 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 birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth.” 1:27God created man in his
own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created
them. 1:28God blessed them. God
said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth.” 1:29God said, “Behold, I
have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the
earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your
food. 1:30To every animal of the
earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth,
in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food.” And it was so.
1:31God saw everything
that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was
morning, the sixth day.
2:1The heavens and the
earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2:2On the seventh day God
finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all
his work which he had made. 2:3God blessed the
seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which
he had created and made.
2:4This is the history of
the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the
day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens. 2:5No plant of the field
was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God
had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the
ground, 2:6but a mist went up
from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the
ground. 2:7Yahweh God formed man
from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul. 2:8Yahweh God planted a
garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had
formed. 2:9Out of the ground
Yahweh God made every tree to grow 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 the
knowledge of good and evil. 2:10A river went out of
Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four
heads. 2:11The name of the first
is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where
there is gold; 2:12and the gold of that
land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone. 2:13The name of the second
river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of
Cush. 2:14The name of the third
river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth
river is the Euphrates. 2:15Yahweh God took the
man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it. 2:16Yahweh God commanded
the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely
eat: 2:17but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat
of it you will surely die.”
2:18Yahweh God said, “It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for
him.” 2:19Out of the ground
Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and
brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called
every living creature, that was its name. 2:20The man gave names to
all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but
for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.2:21Yahweh God caused a
deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh in its place. 2:22He made the rib, which
Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the
man. 2:23The man said, “This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man.” 2:24Therefore a man will
leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be
one flesh. 2:25They were both naked,
the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:1Now the serpent was
more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to
the woman, “Yes, has God said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
3:2The woman said to the
serpent, “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
eat, 3:3but of the fruit of
the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat
of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
3:4The serpent said to
the woman, “You won’t surely die, 3:5for God knows that in
the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil.”
3:6When the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that
the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and
ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he
ate. 3:7Both of their eyes
were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together,
and made themselves aprons. 3:8They heard the voice
of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the
garden.
3:9Yahweh God called to
the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
3:10The man said, “I heard
your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself.”
3:11God said, “Who told
you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not
to eat from?”
3:12The man said, “The
woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
3:13Yahweh God said to the
woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
3:14Yahweh God said to the
serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above
every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust
all the days of your life. 3:15I will put enmity
between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will
bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
3:16To the woman he said,
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth
children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
3:17To Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground
for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your
life. 3:18Thorns also and
thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the
field. 3:19By the sweat of your
face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were
taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
3:20The man called his
wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 3:21Yahweh God made coats
of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
3:22Yahweh God said,
“Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he
put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live
forever...” 3:23Therefore Yahweh God
sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was
taken. 3:24So he drove out the
man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a
sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.