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In the beginning◦ God created the heavens and the earth.
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And the earth was a void and emptiness◦, and darkness was on the faces* of the abyss. And the Spirit of God brooded* upon the faces of the waters.
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And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.
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And God saw the light, that it was good; and God distinguished between the light and the darkness.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, the first◦ Day.
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And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let there be a distinguishing between waters as··to the waters.
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And God made the expanse, and distinguished between the waters which were from under the expanse and the waters which were from upon the expanse; and it was so.
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And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning, the second day.
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And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered··together◦ to▵ one place, and let what is dry appear; and it was so.
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And what was dry, God called Land, and the gathering··together◦ of the waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.
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And God said, Let the land cause the sprout to sprout··forth, the herb seeding seed, and the fruit tree making fruit according··to▵ its kind, in which is its seed, upon the land; and it was so.
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And the land brought··forth the sprout, the herb seeding seed after its kind, and the tree making fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
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And there was evening, and there was morning, the third day.
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And God said, Let there be* lights in the expanse of the heavens, to distinguish between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
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And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give··light on the earth; and it was so.
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And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.
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And God put◦ them in the expanse of the heavens, to give··light on the earth;
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and to rule in the day, and in the night, and to distinguish between the light and the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
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And there was evening, and there was morning, the fourth day.
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And God said, Let the waters cause the crawling thing*, the living soul, to crawl; and let the fowl fly above the earth on the faces of the expanse of the heavens.
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And God created the great whales, and every living soul that creeps, which the waters caused to crawl after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
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And God blessed them, saying, Be··fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl shall be multiplied in the earth.
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And there was evening, and there was morning, the fifth day.
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And God said, Let the land bring··forth the living soul after its kind; the beast, and the creeping thing, and the wild··animal of the land, after its kind; and it was so.
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And God made the wild··animal of the land after its kind, and the beast after its kind, and every creeping thing on the ground* after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, according··to our likeness; and let them have··dominion over◦ the fish of the sea, and over◦ the fowl of the heavens, and over◦ the beast, and over◦ all the earth, and over◦ every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be··fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue her; and have··dominion over◦ the fish of the sea, and over◦ the fowl of the heavens, and over◦ every living··thing that creeps on the earth.
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And God said, Behold, I give to you every herb seeding seed which is on the faces of all the earth, and every tree in which is fruit; the tree seeding seed, to you it shall be for food;
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and to every wild··animal of the land, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creeps on the earth in which◦ is a living soul, every green◦ herb shall be for food; and it was so.
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And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.