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

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

⁹ For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.