Genesis 1

Genesis 1

Genesis 1:1 At first,[1] God created the sky[2] and the land,[3]

Genesis 1:2 but the land was unformed and unfilled, and the deep space was dark, and God’s Breath[4] was shaking up the water.

Genesis 1:3 Then God said, “Let light be,” and there was light,

Genesis 1:4 and God saw how good the light was. God separated[5] the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5 God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. After evening was over and morning came, it marked the first day.

Genesis 1:6 Then God said, “Let a separator be placed in the midst of the water, and let it separate the water above from the water below.”

Genesis 1:7 so God made the separator and separated the water that was under the separator from the water that was over the separator. And it became that way.

Genesis 1:8 God called the separator “sky.” After evening was over and morning came, it marked the second day.

Genesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:10 God called the dry ground Land, and the water that had been gathered together he called Seas, and God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout flora: plants producing seed,[6] and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the land.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:12 The land produced flora: plants producing seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, and God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:13 After evening was over and morning came, it marked the third day.

Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let luminaries show in the separator of the sky to separate the day from the night. And let them serve as signs and distinguish seasons, and days and years,

Genesis 1:15 and let them serve as lights in the divider of the sky to give light upon the land.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:16 And God made the two large luminaries- the larger luminary to influence the day and the lesser luminary to influence the night- and he also made the stars.

Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the divider of the sky to light the land,

Genesis 1:18 to influence[7] the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:19 After evening was over and morning came, it marked the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living throats,[8] and let birds fly above the land across the divider of the sky.”

Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living throat that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, and this is what he said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let birds multiply on the land.”

Genesis 1:23 And After evening was over and morning came, it marked the fifth day.

Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the land bring forth living throats according to their kinds – livestock and moving things[9] and living things[10] of the land according to their kinds.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:25 And God made the living things of the land according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that moves on the ground according to its kind. And God approved.

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image, after our likeness. And let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the land and over every moving thing that creeps on the land.”

Genesis 1:27 So God created humanity in his own image, he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Bear fruit and become many and fill the land and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over everything alive that moves on the land.”

Genesis 1:29 And God said, “Notice,[11] I have given you every plant producing seed that is on the face of all the land, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You will have them for food.

Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the land and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the land, everything that has a living throat on it, I have given all flora for food.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and noticed it was very good. And after evening was over and morning came, it marked the sixth day.

[1]רֵאשִׁית = first Genesis 1:1; 10:10; 49:3.

[2]שָׁמַיִם = sky Genesis 1:1, 8-9, 14-15, 17, 20, 26, 28, 30; 2:1, 4, 19-20; 6:7, 17; 7:3, 11, 19, 23; 8:2; 9:2; 11:4; 14:19, 22; 15:5; 19:24; 21:17; 22:11, 15, 17; 24:3, 7; 26:4; 27:28, 39; 28:12, 17; 49:25.

[3]אֶרֶץ = land Genesis 1:1-2, 10-12, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24-26, 28-30; 2:1, 4-6, 11-13; 4:12, 14, 16; 6:4-6, 11-13, 17; 7:3-4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 17-19, 21, 23-24; 8:1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 22; 9:1-2, 7, 10-11, 13-14, 16-17, 19; 10:5, 8, 10-11, 20, 25, 31-32; 11:1-2, 4, 8-9, 28, 31; 12:1, 5-7, 10; 13:6-7, 9-10, 12, 15-17; 14:19, 22; 15:7, 13, 18; 16:3; 17:8; 18:2, 18, 25; 19:1, 23, 28, 31; 20:1, 15; 21:21, 23, 32, 34; 22:2, 18; 23:2, 7, 12-13, 15, 19; 24:3-5, 7, 37, 52; 25:6; 26:1-4, 12, 22; 27:28, 39, 46; 28:4, 12-14; 29:1; 30:25; 31:3, 13, 18; 32:3, 9; 33:3, 18; 34:1-2, 10, 21, 30; 35:6, 12, 16, 22; 36:5-7, 16-17, 20-21, 30-31, 34, 43; 37:1, 10; 38:9; 40:15; 41:19, 29-31, 33-34, 36, 41, 43-48, 52-57; 42:5-7, 9, 12-13, 29-30, 32-34; 43:1, 11, 26; 44:8, 11, 14; 45:6-8, 10, 17-20, 25-26; 46:6, 12, 20, 28, 31, 34; 47:1, 4, 6, 11, 13-15, 20, 27-28; 48:3-5, 7, 12, 16, 21; 49:15, 30; 50:5, 7-8, 11, 13, 24.

[4]רוּחַ =breath, wind Genesis 1:2; 3:8; 6:3, 17; 7:15, 22; 8:1; 26:35; 41:8, 38; 45:27.

[5]בדל = separate Genesis 1:4, 6-7, 14, 18.

[6] זֶרָע = seed. Genesis 1:11, 12, 29; 3:15; 4:25; 7:3; 8:22; 9:9; 12:7; 13:15, 16; 15:3, 5, 13, 18; 16:10; 17:7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19; 19:32, 34; 21:12, 13; 22:17, 18; 24:7, 60; 26:3, 4, 24; 28:4, 13, 14; 32:12; 35:12; 38:8, 9; 46:6, 7; 47:19, 23, 24; 48:4, 11, 19.

[7]מָשַׁל = influence, rule. Genesis 1:18; 3:16; 4:7; 24:2; 37:8; 45:8, 26.

[8]נֶפֶשׁ = throat. Genesis 1:20-21, 24, 30; 2:7, 19; 9:4-5, 10, 12, 15-16; 12:5; 14:21; 17:14; 19:17, 19-20; 23:8; 27:4; 32:30; 34:8; 35:18; 37:21; 42:21; 44:30; 46:18, 22, 25-27; 49:6.

[9] רֶמֶשׂ = moving thing. Genesis 1:24, 25, 26; 6:7, 20; 7:14, 23; 8:17, 19; 9:3.

[10] חַיָּה = living thing, living. Genesis 1:24, 25, 30; 2:19, 20; 3:1, 14; 7:14, 21; 8:1, 17, 19; 9:2, 5, 10; 37:20, 33.

[11] הִנֵּה = notice. Genesis 1:29, 31; 6:12, 13, 17; 8:11, 13; 9:9; 12:11, 19; 15:4, 12, 17; 16:2, 6, 11, 14; 17:4, 20; 18:2, 9, 10, 27, 31; 19:2, 8, 19, 20, 21, 28; 20:3, 15, 16; 22:1, 7, 11, 13, 20; 24:13, 15, 30, 43, 45, 51, 63; 25:24, 32; 26:8, 9; 27:1, 2, 6, 18, 36, 39, 42; 28:12, 13, 15; 29:2, 6, 25; 30:3; 31:2, 10, 11, 51; 32:18, 20; 33:1; 34:21; 37:7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 29; 38:13, 23, 24, 27, 29; 40:6, 9, 16; 41:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 29; 42:2, 13, 22, 27, 28, 35; 43:21; 44:16; 45:12; 46:2; 47:1; 48:1, 2, 4, 11, 21; 50:5, 18.

Genesis 1 quotes:

“The natural tendency of the universe is to go from order to chaos. The only way to move from chaos to order is to direct energy toward that task. And that’s exactly what we see in Genesis 1.”

David, Benjamin, ed. Seven Days, Many Voices: Insights into the Biblical Story of Creation. Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017. p. 35.

“On the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:14-19), we are given the comparison of day to night, and days to years. If the word “day” doesn’t mean an ordinary day, then the comparison of day to night and day to years becomes meaningless.”

Ham, Ken. A Pocket Guide to Six Days : How Long Were the Days in Genesis 1? Answers in Genesis, 2014. p. 13.

“Man, however, wants evidence. He wants God to explain to his satisfaction just how He did it, and will not accept the simple final statement of Genesis 1:1. While this first verse in the Bible is God’s final word on the origin of the universe, man’s perverted curiosity is not satisfied with God’s definitive statement, and so he seeks to invent his own idea for the origin of the universe, and comes up with a theory of evolution, which wholly or partially rules God out of His creation. Just as in the Garden of Eden, the question is still, ‘Will we believe God’s Word or the speculations of science, so called?’”

DeHaan, M. R. Genesis and Evolution. Zondervan, 1962. p. 13.

“There is a distinction in the text between the first three works of creation, which form the inanimate world, and the second five works of creation, which define the animate life placed within the world.”

Weaver, John. Earthshaping, Earthkeeping: A Doctrine of Creation. Lynx/SPCK, 1999. p. 31.