King James VersionGenesis1

Genesis

1 In the be­gin­ning God cre­at­ed the heav­en and the earth. 2 And the earth was with­out form, and void; and dark­ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spir­it of God moved upon the face of the wa­ters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God di­vid­ed the light from the dark­ness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the dark­ness he called Night. And the evening and the morn­ing were the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a fir­ma­ment in the midst of the wa­ters, and let it di­vide the wa­ters from the wa­ters. 7 And God made the fir­ma­ment, and di­vid­ed the wa­ters which were un­der the fir­ma­ment from the wa­ters which were above the fir­ma­ment: and it was so. 8 And God called the fir­ma­ment Heav­en. And the evening and the morn­ing were the sec­ond day. 9 And God said, Let the wa­ters un­der the heav­en be gath­ered to­geth­er unto one place, and let the dry land ap­pear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gath­er­ing to­geth­er of the wa­ters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yield­ing seed, and the fruit tree yield­ing fruit af­ter his kind, whose seed is in it­self, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yield­ing seed af­ter his kind, and the tree yield­ing fruit, whose seed was in it­self, af­ter his 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 in the fir­ma­ment of the heav­en to di­vide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for sea­sons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the fir­ma­ment of the heav­en to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the less­er light to rule the night: he made the stars al­so. 17 And God set them in the fir­ma­ment of the heav­en to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to di­vide the light from the dark­ness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morn­ing were the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the wa­ters bring forth abun­dant­ly the mov­ing crea­ture that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open fir­ma­ment of heav­en. 21 And God cre­at­ed great whales, and ev­ery liv­ing crea­ture that moveth, which the wa­ters brought forth abun­dant­ly, af­ter their kind, and ev­ery winged fowl af­ter his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, say­ing, Be fruit­ful, and mul­ti­ply, and fill the wa­ters in the seas, and let fowl mul­ti­ply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morn­ing were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liv­ing crea­ture af­ter his kind, cat­tle, and creep­ing thing, and beast of the earth af­ter his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth af­ter his kind, and cat­tle af­ter their kind, and ev­ery thing that creep­eth upon the earth af­ter his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our im­age, af­ter our like­ness: and let them have do­min­ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cat­tle, and over all the earth, and over ev­ery creep­ing thing that creep­eth upon the earth. 27 So God cre­at­ed man in his own im­age, in the im­age of God cre­at­ed he him; male and fe­male cre­at­ed he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruit­ful, and mul­ti­ply, and re­plen­ish the earth, and sub­due it: and have do­min­ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over ev­ery liv­ing thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Be­hold, I have giv­en you ev­ery herb bear­ing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and ev­ery tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yield­ing seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to ev­ery beast of the earth, and to ev­ery fowl of the air, and to ev­ery thing that creep­eth upon the earth, where­in there is life, I have given ev­ery green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw ev­ery thing that he had made, and, be­hold, it was very good. And the evening and the morn­ing were the sixth day.