1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[ † ]Psalms 102:25Isaiah 40:21John 1:1-3Hebrews 1:10Genesis 2:4Psalms 8:3Psalms 89:11Psalms 90:2Isaiah 44:24Acts 17:24Romans 1:20Hebrews 1:2Hebrews 11:3Revelation 4:11
2Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.[ † ]Jeremiah 4:23Genesis 6:3Job 26:13Psalms 33:6Psalms 104:30Isaiah 40:13-14
3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.[ † ]Psalms 33:6-92 Corinthians 4:6Hebrews 11:3 4And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
5God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.[ † ]Job 37:18Psalms 19:2Psalms 33:6Psalms 74:16Psalms 104:20Psalms 136:5Jeremiah 10:12
6And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”[ † ]Job 37:18Jeremiah 10:122 Peter 3:5 7So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.[ † ]Job 38:8-11Proverbs 8:27-29Psalms 148:4
8God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.[ † ]Job 26:10Psalms 104:6-9Proverbs 8:29Jeremiah 5:222 Peter 3:5Psalms 24:1-2Psalms 33:7Psalms 95:5 10God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.[ † ]Psalms 65:9-13Psalms 104:14Hebrews 6:72 Samuel 16:1Luke 6:44 12The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:19Psalms 74:16Psalms 136:5-9Psalms 104:19 15And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
16God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.[ † ]Psalms 136:8Deuteronomy 17:3Psalms 8:3Deuteronomy 4:19Job 38:7Isaiah 40:26
17God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,[ † ]Genesis 15:5Jeremiah 33:20-25 18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:35
19And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” 21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.[ † ]Psalms 104:25-28
22Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”[ † ]Genesis 8:17
23And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”[ † ]Genesis 9:6Psalms 100:3Ecclesiastes 7:29Ephesians 4:24James 3:9Genesis 9:2Psalms 8:6-8
28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”[ † ]Genesis 9:1-7Leviticus 26:91 Corinthians 9:27
29Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.[ † ]Genesis 9:3Psalms 104:14-15 30And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.[ † ]Psalms 145:15Job 38:41
31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.[ † ]Psalms 104:241 Timothy 4:4