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Genesis 1

The Creation

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 aIn the beginning  bGod  ccreated the heavens and the earth.

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The earth was  1 aformless and void, and  bdarkness was over the  2surface of the deep, and  cthe Spirit of God  dwas  3moving over the  2surface of the waters.

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Then  aGod said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

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God saw that the light was  agood; and God  bseparated the light from the darkness.

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 aGod called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And  bthere was evening and there was morning, one day.

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Then God said, "Let there be  1an  aexpanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."

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God made the  1expanse, and separated  athe waters which were below the  1expanse from the waters  bwhich were above the  1expanse; and it was so.

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God called the  1expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

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Then God said, " aLet the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let  bthe dry land appear"; and it was so.

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God called the dry land earth, and the  agathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.

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Then God said, "Let the earth sprout  1 avegetation,  2plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after  3their kind  4with seed in them"; and it was so.

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The earth brought forth  1vegetation,  2plants yielding seed after  3their kind, and trees bearing fruit  4with seed in them, after  3their kind; and God saw that it was good.

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There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

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Then God said, "Let there be  1 alights in the  2 bexpanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for  csigns and for  dseasons and for days and years;

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and let them be for  1lights in the  2expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.

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God made the two  1great lights, the  agreater  2light  3to govern the day, and the lesser  2light  3to govern the night; He made  bthe stars also.

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 aGod placed them in the  1expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

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and  1to  agovern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

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There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

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Then God said, "Let the waters  1teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth  2in the open  3expanse of the heavens."

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God created  athe great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

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God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

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There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

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 aThen God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after  1their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after  1their kind"; and it was so.

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God made the  abeasts of the earth after  1their kind, and the cattle after  1their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

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Then God said, "Let  aUs make  bman in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them  crule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the  1sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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God created man  ain His own image, in the image of God He created him;  bmale and female He created them.

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God blessed them; and God said to them, " aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the  1sky and over every living thing that  2moves on the earth."

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Then God said, "Behold,  aI have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the  1surface of all the earth, and every tree  2which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

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and  ato every beast of the earth and to every bird of the  1sky and to every thing that  2moves on the earth  3which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

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God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very  agood. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.



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