BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 1
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
2 And the earth was void and empty, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the
spirit of God moved over the waters.
3 And God said: Be light made. And light
was made.
4 And God saw the light that it was good; and
he divided the light from the darkness.
5 And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning
one day.
6 And God said: Let there be a firmament
made amidst the waters: and let it divide the
waters from the waters.
7 And god made a firmament, and divided
the waters that were under the firmament, from
those that were above the firmament, and it was
so.
8 And God called the firmament, Heaven; and
the evening and morning were the second day.
9 God also said; Let the waters that are under
the heaven, be gathered together into one place:
and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
10 And God called the dry land, Earth; and
the gathering together of the waters, he called
Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 And he said: let the earth bring forth green
herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed
in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
12 And the earth brought forth the green
herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its
kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed
each one according to its 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 made
in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day
and the night, and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days and years:
15 To shine in the firmament of heaven, and
to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.
16 And God made two great lights: a greater
light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule
the night: and The stars.
17 And he set them in the firmament of heaven
to shine upon the earth.
18 And to rule the day and the night, and to
divide the light and the darkness. And God saw
that it was good.
19 And the evening and morning were the
fourth day.
20 God also said: let the waters bring forth
the creeping creature having life, and the fowl
that may fly over the earth under the firmament
of heaven.
21 And God created the great whales, and
every living and moving creature, which the
waaters brought forth, according to their kinds,
and every winged fowl according to its kind. And
God saw that it was good
22 And he blessed them, saying: Increase and
multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let
the birds be multiplied upon the earth.
23 And the evening and morning were the fifth
day.
24 And God said: Let the earth bring forth
the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping
things, and beasts of the earth, according to their
kinds. And it was so done.
25 And God made the beasts of the earth
according to their kinds, and cattle, and every
thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
26 And he said: Let us make man to our image
and likeness: and let him have dominion over the
fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the
beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping
creature that moveth upon the earth.
27 And God created man to his own image:
to the image of God he created him: male and
female he created them.
28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase
and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it,
and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls
of the air, and all living creatures that move
upon the earth.
29 And God said: Behold I have given you
every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all
trees that have in themselves seed of their own
kind, to be your meat:
30 And to all beasts of the earth, and to every
fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the
earth, and wherein there is life, that they may
have to feed upon. And it was so done.
31 And God saw all the things that he had
made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 2
So the heavens and the earth were finished, and
all the furniture of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work
which he had made: and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had done.
3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his
work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heaven and
the earth, when they were created, in the day
that the Lord God made the heaven and the
earth:
5 And every plant of the field before it sprung
up in the earth, and every herb of the ground
before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained
upon the earth; and there was not a man to till
the earth.
6 But a spring rose out of the earth, watering
all the surface of the earth.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime
of the earth: and breathed into his face the
breath of life, and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of
pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed
man whom he had formed.
9 And the Lord God brought forth of the
ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and
pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the
midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil.
10 And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.
11 The name of the one is Phison: that is it
which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where
gold groweth.
12 And the gold of that land is very good:
there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.13 And the name of the second river is Gehon:
the same is it that compasseth all the land of
Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris:
the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And
the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took man, and put him
into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to
keep it.
16 And he commanded him, saying: Of every
tree of paradise thou shalt eat:
17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever
thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
18 And the Lord God said: It is not good for
man to be alone: let us make him a help like
unto himself.
19 And the Lord God having formed out of
the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all
the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see
what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam
called any living creature the same is its name.
20 And Adam called all the beasts by their
names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the
cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not
found a helper like himself.
21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon
Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one
of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.
22 And the Lord God built the rib which he
took from Adam into a woman: and brought her
to Adam.
23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
woman, because she was taken out of man.
24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they
shall be two in one flesh.
25 And they were both naked: to wit, Adam
and his wife: and were not ashamed.
