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Genesis, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} In the beginning [1>]God[<1] created the heavens and the
earth. {1:2} Now 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.
{1:3} God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. {1:4} God
saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from
the darkness. {1:5} God called the light "day," and the darkness he
called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
{1:6} God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." {1:7} God made
the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from
the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. {1:8} God
called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a
second day.
{1:9} God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together
to one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. {1:10} God
called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters
he called "seas." God saw that it was good. {1:11} God said, "Let the
earth yield grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit
after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth"; and it was so.
{1:12} The earth yielded 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. {1:13} There was evening and there was
morning, a third day.
{1:14} God 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; {1:15} and let them be for lights in
the expanse of sky to give light on the earth"; and it was so. {1:16}
God 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. {1:17} God
set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, {1:18} and
to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
the darkness. God saw that it was good. {1:19} There was evening and
there was morning, a fourth day.
{1:20} God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of
sky." {1:21} God 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. {1:22}
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." {1:23} There
was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
{1:24} God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures after their
kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their
kind"; and it was so. {1:25} God made the animals of the earth after
their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that
creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
{1:26} 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
birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." {1:27} God
created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and
female he created them. {1:28} God 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." {1:29} God 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. {1:30} To 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.
{1:31} God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
{2:1} The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast
array. {2:2} On 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. {2:3} God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he
rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
{2:4} This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of
the earth when they were created, in the day that [2>]the LORD[<2] God
made the earth and the heavens. {2:5} No plant of the field was yet in
the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD
God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to
till the ground, {2:6} but a mist went up from the earth, and watered
the whole surface of the ground. {2:7} The LORD God formed man from
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul. {2:8} The LORD God planted a
garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
{2:9} Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
{2:10} A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it
was parted, and became four heads. {2:11} The name of the first is
Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold; {2:12} and the gold of that land is good. There
is aromatic resin and the onyx stone. {2:13} The name of the second
river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of
Cush. {2:14} The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one
which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
{2:15} The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it. {2:16} The LORD God commanded the man,
saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; {2:17} but 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."
{2:18} The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." {2:19} Out of the
ground the LORD 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. {2:20} The man gave names to all livestock, 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. {2:21} The LORD 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. {2:22} He made the rib, which
the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to
the man. {2:23} The 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." {2:24} Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and
will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. {2:25} They were
both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
{3:1} Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field
which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really
said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
{3:2} The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of
the garden we may eat, {3:3} but of the fruit of the tree which is in
the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it,
neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
{3:4} The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, {3:5}
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
{3:6} When 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 its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to
her husband with her, and he ate. {3:7} The eyes of both of them were
opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons. {3:8} They heard the voice of
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man
and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among
the trees of the garden.
{3:9} The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are
you?"
{3:10} The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
{3:11} God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
{3:12} The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I ate."
{3:13} The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
{3:14} The LORD God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all livestock,
and above every animal of the field.
On your belly you shall go,
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
{3:15} I 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."
{3:16} To the woman he said,
"I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
In pain you will bear children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
{3:17} To 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.
{3:18} It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
{3:19} By 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."
{3:20} The man called his wife Havah, because she was the mother of
all living. {3:21} The LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and for
his wife, and clothed them.
{3:22} The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of
us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also
take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." {3:23}
Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from which he was taken. {3:24} So 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.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim." After "God," the
Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of
the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.
[2] {2:4} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
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