¹ And the heavens and the earth were completed, and all the army of them.

² And on^◦ the seventh day God completed His work^▵* which He had made; and He ceased^* on^◦ the seventh day from all His work^▵ which He had made.

³ And God blessed the seventh day, and made· it ·holy, because^◦ in it He ceased from all His work^▵ which God created to make.

⁴ These are the births of the heavens and of the earth when He created them, in the day in which Jehovah^* God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵ And every shrub of the field was not·​·yet in the earth, and every herb of the field was not·​·yet growing, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain on the earth. And there was no man to till the ground.

⁶ And He made a mist^◦ to go·​·up from the land, and watered all the faces of the ground.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed man^*, dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives^*, and man became a living soul.

⁸ And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden from the east, and there He set man whom He had formed.

⁹ And out·​·of the ground Jehovah God made to grow every tree desirable for seeing, and good for food; the tree of lives also, in the midst of the garden; and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ And a river went·​·out from Eden to water^◦ the garden, and from thence it was separated, and was made^* into^◦ four heads.

¹¹ The name of the first^◦ is Pishon; it^◦ surrounds all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.

¹² And the gold of that^◦ land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone is there.

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon; it^◦ surrounds all the land of Cush.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; it^◦ is the one going^◦ eastward·​·toward Assyria; and the fourth river, it^◦ is Euphrates.

¹⁵ And Jehovah God took man, and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to keep it.

¹⁶ And Jehovah God commanded man^*, saying, Of every tree of the garden eating thou shalt eat.

¹⁷ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it, dying thou shalt die.

¹⁸ And Jehovah God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make for him a help as with him.

¹⁹ And Jehovah God formed out·​·of the ground every animal of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and brought it to^▵ man to see what he would call it; and whatever man called a living soul, that^◦ was its name.

²⁰ And man gave^* names to every beast, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every wild·​·animal of the field; but for man there was not found a help as with him.

²¹ And Jehovah God caused a deep·​·sleep to fall upon man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed the flesh instead·​·of it.

²² And the rib which Jehovah God had taken from man, He built^* into^◦ a woman^* and brought her to^▵ man.

²³ And man said, This one, this time^◦ is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; for this she shall be called a wife, for this was taken out·​·of a man^◦*.

²⁴ Therefore shall a man^◦ leave^◦ his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

²⁵ And the two of them were naked, man and his wife, and were· not ·ashamed.

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.