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Genesis 1

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

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon 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 the light from the darkness.

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

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto 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 called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven 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 firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his 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 in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his 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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Scriptural Confirmations #96

  
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96. 3. Thus said Jehovah thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Former, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine (Isaiah 4:1).

I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior (Isaiah 43:3).

I, I am Jehovah; and besides Me there is no Savior (Isaiah 43:11).

Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 43:14).

I Jehovah am your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King (Isaiah 43:15).

The people which I have formed for Myself: they shall set forth My praise (Isaiah 43:21).

Thus said Jehovah, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts; I am the First and I am the Last: and besides Me there is no God (Isaiah 44:6).

Break forth into singing, ye mountains; for Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify Himself in Israel. Thus said Jehovah thy Redeemer, and thy Former from the womb: I am Jehovah that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth forth the earth by Myself (Isaiah 44:23-24).

I will blot out as a cloud thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee (Isaiah 44:22).

Surely God is in thee, and there is none else. Verily Thou art a hidden God, O God of Israel, the Savior. Israel is saved by Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be touched by shame even to the eternities of eternity (Isaiah 45:14-15, 17).

Am not I Jehovah ? and there is no God else beside Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside Me. Look unto Me that ye may be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else (Isaiah 45:21-22).

As to our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 47:4).

Thus said Jehovah thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am Jehovah thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee in the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to My precepts, for then thy peace would have been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea (Isaiah 48:17-18).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Isaiah 44:24

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24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;