Genesis 1

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

²And the earth was formless and lifeless, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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

⁴And God saw the light, that it was good. And God separated between the light and between the darkness.

⁵And God called the light 'Day,' and the darkness he called 'Night,' and there was evening and there was morning, one day.

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

⁷And God made the expanse, and he separated between the water that is below the expanse and the water that is above the expanse. And it was so.

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

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

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

¹¹And God said, 'Let the earth cause sprouts to sprout — vegetation, plants seeding seed, fruit trees making fruit of its kind whose seed is in it, upon the earth,' and it was so.

¹²And the earth brought forth sprouts — vegetation, plants seeding seed of its kind, and trees making fruit whose seed is in it of its kind, and God saw that it was good.

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

¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate between the day and between the night, and let them be for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years.

¹⁵and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so.

¹⁶And God made the two great luminaries — the great luminary for dominion of the day, and the lesser luminary for dominion of the night — and the stars.

¹⁷And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.

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

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

²⁰And God said: Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and flying things fly above the earth, upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.

²¹And God created the great tannanim and every living creature that creeps, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kinds, and every flying thing of wing according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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

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

²⁴And God said: Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind — livestock, and creeping things, and wild animals of the earth after their kind. And it was so.

²⁵And God made the living creatures of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶And God said: Let us make humankind as our image, after our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the flying things of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth.

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

²⁸And God blessed them, and God said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the flying things of the heavens, and over every living creature that creeps upon the earth.

²⁹And God said: Look, I have given to you every plant seeding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which there is fruit of a tree seeding seed — to you it shall be for food.

³⁰and to all the living creatures of the earth, and to all the flying things of the heavens, and to all that creeps upon the earth in which there is a living creature, every green plant [I give] for food. And it was so.

³¹And God saw all that he had made, and look, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a day, the sixth.