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

² And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

³ And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the first Day.

⁶ And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.

⁷ And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.

⁸ And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning -- a second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind. And God saw that it was good.

¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning -- a third day.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and 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 the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the stars.

¹⁷ And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,

¹⁸ and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

²¹ And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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

²³ And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ And 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 fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.

²⁷ And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;

³⁰ and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.

³¹ 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.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

² And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth [on] the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

⁴ Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

⁵ And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

⁶ Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

⁷ And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

⁸ And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

¹⁰ and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark -- every animal of the earth.

¹¹ And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:

¹³ I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴ And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁸ And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹ These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad.

²⁰ And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

²² And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

²³ And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid [it] upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.

²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.

²⁶ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

²⁷ Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

²⁸ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.