1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2. The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
3. God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
5. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
6. Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
7. So God made the expanse and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.
8. God called the expanse Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
9. Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into 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. Then God saw that it was good.
11. Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees on the earth yielding fruit after their kind with seed in them.” And it was so.
12. The earth produced vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind and trees yielding fruit with seed in them after their kind. And God saw that it was good.