New King James Version (NKJV Bible)
The History of Creation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was[a] on
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
waters.
3 Then 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 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 a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
7 Thus 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.
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 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 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb that yields seed, and the fruit
tree thatyields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in
itself, on the earth”; and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass,
the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the
tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in
itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 So the evening and the morning
were the third day.
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs and seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of
the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
16 Then 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 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to
give light on 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 So the evening and the morning were the fourth
day.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an
abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the
face of the firmament of the heavens.”
21 So God created great sea creatures and every
living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their
kind, and every winged bird according to its 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 birds
multiply on the earth.”
23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth
day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the
living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of
the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the
earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that
creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[b] the
earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God
said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every
herb that yields seed which is on the face of
all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for
food.
30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird
of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there
is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and
it was so.
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and
indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
Footnotes: a.Genesis 1:2 Words
in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original
Hebrew or Aramaic.
