In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. 3 And there were no creatures that writhed in the deep. 4 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 5 The God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And this light was not separate from the light of the void. 6 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the void. 7 God called the light day, and to the darkness he called night. 8 So the evening and the morning were the first day, for he had created the night and the day. 9 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 10 And so with his words the sky was made, and the sky of the heavens was made as well. 11 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament so that they could both be seen, and he divided the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so, for he had said that it was so. 12 And God called the firmament the heavens. So the evening and the morning were the second day. 13 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, so that when there are things that can walk they may be able to walk”; 14 and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and to the water he called it sea. And God saw that it was good. 15 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, so that when there are things with minds they may be able to reap from this seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself, on the earth, so that when there are things with minds they may be able to pick from this fruit”; 16 and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed will go on to grow more trees. 17 And God saw that it was good. 18 So the evening and the morning were the third day. 19 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens so that things with minds may be able to look up to the sky and see them, 20 and let them be for signs and seasons, and let them be seen in the night. 21 And let them also be used for days and years, so that things with minds will be able to understand their time. 22 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, so that things with minds may be able to find their way at night when it is dark and cold,” and it was so. 23 And God said, “Let there be cold in the night and warmth in the day,” and it was so. 24 And God saw that it was good. 25 Then God made two great lights, from which came warmth, and the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. 26 There he then made the stars also. 27 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God said, “Let it be so that things with minds will be able to see when it is night and when it is day,” and it was so. 28 And God saw that it all was good. 29 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 30 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and so too will it be the same for the deep, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 31 So God created great sea creatures that swam and leaped and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, 32 and God created great sky creatures that soared and dipped and every living thing that moves, with which the skies abound. And God saw that it was good. 33 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas and the waters in the deep, and fill the skies in across the firmament, and let these birds that come down from the skies also multiply on the earth.” 34 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 35 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature: cattle and creeping things and beast of the earth, and all things that fly just as the creatures of the skies but crawl on their legs; and it was so. 36 And God made the beast of the earth, cattle, and all things that fly and crawl, and everything that creeps on the earth. And God saw that it was good. 37 Then God said, “Let me make beings with minds in my own image, according to my likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping that creeps on the earth. 38 Let these beings be heaven-sent.” 39 So God created beings with minds in his own image, and he called them man. 40 So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. 41 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, just as all of the other creatures that live on this earth; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Have dominion over my heaven-sent gift.” 42 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food, and you shall take care of it as you are meant to. 43 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, 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. 44 And God said, “You will recognize that all that is on this earth is my heaven-sent gift and that you have dominion over it, yet you will not abuse it,” and it was so. 45 Then God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 46 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished, and God saw that it was good. 47 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 48 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, and he called it the Sabbath. 49 God did this because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. 50 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, 51 in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown, and before any creature that now lives in the sea or in the deep or upon the lowly ground or in the sky ever existed. 52 It was God who made the heavens, the earth, the deep, and the sea, and it was God who made the creatures that live in all of those things and the creatures with minds that he called man. 53 For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 54 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. 55 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 56 and man became a living being with a mind. 57 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 58 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, and he made grow all trees that he believed were good. 59 The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and so too was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 60 The name of the first is Psihon, of the deep; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where God had planted gold. 61 And the gold of that land is good. 63 Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 64 The name of the third river is Hidekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 65 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 66 And so man did what he was told by God. 67 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but I say to you now so that you will remember for all time that you are to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 68 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and so too did he do with the fish of the water and the fish of the deep, 69 and he brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 70 God named them those names. 71 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, to every beast that also lived upon the earth and in the sea and in the sky and in the deep. 72 And the Lord God made a wife for Adam from the same dirt that he had made him from. And Adam said: 74 “This is now dirt of my flesh; she shall be called Lilith.” 75 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.