¹ Dies ist das Buch von Adams Geschlechtern. An dem Tage, da Gott Adam schuf, machte er ihn im Gleichnis Gottes.

² Mann und Weib schuf er sie, und er segnete sie und gab ihnen den Namen Mensch, an dem Tage, da sie geschaffen wurden. -

³ Und Adam lebte hundertdreißig Jahre und zeugte einen Sohn in seinem Gleichnis, nach seinem Bilde, und gab ihm den Namen Seth.

⁴ Und die Tage Adams, nachdem er Seth gezeugt hatte, waren achthundert Jahre, und er zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

⁵ Und alle Tage Adams, die er lebte, waren neunhundertdreißig Jahre, und er starb. -

⁶ Und Seth lebte hundertfünf Jahre und zeugte Enos.

⁷ Und Seth lebte, nachdem er Enos gezeugt hatte, achthundertsieben Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

⁸ Und alle Tage Seths waren neunhundertzwölf Jahre, und er starb. -

⁹ Und Enos lebte neunzig Jahre und zeugte Kenan.

¹⁰ Und Enos lebte, nachdem er Kenan gezeugt hatte, achthundertfünfzehn Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

¹¹ Und alle Tage Enos' waren neunhundertfünf Jahre, und er starb. -

¹² Und Kenan lebte siebzig Jahre und zeugte Mahalalel.

¹³ Und Kenan lebte, nachdem er Mahalalel gezeugt hatte, achthundertvierzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

¹⁴ Und alle Tage Kenans waren neunhundertzehn Jahre, und er starb. -

¹⁵ Und Mahalalel lebte fünfundsechzig Jahre und zeugte Jered.

¹⁶ Und Mahalalel lebte, nachdem er Jered gezeugt hatte, achthundertdreißig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

¹⁷ Und alle Tage Mahalalels waren achthundertfünfundneunzig Jahre, und er starb. -

¹⁸ Und Jered lebte hundertzweiundsechzig Jahre und zeugte Henoch.

¹⁹ Und Jered lebte, nachdem er Henoch gezeugt hatte, achthundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

²⁰ Und alle Tage Jereds waren neunhundertzweiundsechzig Jahre, und er starb. -

²¹ Und Henoch lebte fünfundsechzig Jahre und zeugte Methusalah.

²² Und Henoch wandelte mit Gott, nachdem er Methusalah gezeugt hatte, dreihundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

²³ Und alle Tage Henochs waren dreihundertfünfundsechzig Jahre.

²⁴ Und Henoch wandelte mit Gott; und er war nicht mehr, denn Gott nahm ihn hinweg. -

²⁵ Und Methusalah lebte hundertsiebenachtzig Jahre und zeugte Lamech.

²⁶ Und Methusalah lebte, nachdem er Lamech gezeugt hatte, siebenhundertzweiundachtzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

²⁷ Und alle Tage Methusalahs waren neunhundertneunundsechzig Jahre, und er starb. -

²⁸ Und Lamech lebte hundertzweiundachtzig Jahre und zeugte einen Sohn.

²⁹ Und er gab ihm den Namen Noah, indem er sprach: Dieser wird uns trösten über unsere Arbeit und über die Mühe unserer Hände wegen des Erdbodens, den Jehova verflucht hat.

³⁰ Und Lamech lebte, nachdem er Noah gezeugt hatte, fünfhundertfünfundneunzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

³¹ Und alle Tage Lamechs waren siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig Jahre, und er starb. -

³² Und Noah war fünfhundert Jahre alt; und Noah zeugte Sem, Ham und Japhet.

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

³ God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

⁴ God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

⁶ God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

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.

⁸ God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

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.

¹⁰ God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

¹¹ God 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.

¹² The 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.

¹³ There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

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;

¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

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.

¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

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.

¹⁹ There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

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."

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.

²² God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

²³ There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

²⁴ God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

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.

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."

²⁷ God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

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."

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.

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.

³¹ God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.