Genesis 1
1 The Beginning
1 In the beginningPs 102:25; Pr 8:23; Isa 40:21; 41:4,26Jn 1:1-2 God createdver 21,27; Ge 2:3 the heavensver 6; Ne 9:6; Job 9:8; 37:18; Ps 96:5; 104:2; 115:15; 121:2; 136:5; Isa 40:22; 42:5; 51:13; Jer 10:12; 51:15 and the earth.Ge 14:19; 2Ki 19:15; Ne 9:6Job 38:4; Ps 90:2136:6; 146:6Isa 37:16; 40:2842:5; 44:24; 45:12,18Jer 27:5; 32:17Ac 14:1517:24Eph 3:9; Col 1:16Heb 3:411:3; Rev 4:1110:6 2 Now the earth was[a] Or possibly became formlessIsa 23:1; 24:10; 27:10; 32:14; 34:11 and empty,Isa 45:18Jer 4:23 darkness was over the surface of the deep,Ge 8:2; Job 7:12; 26:8; 38:9; Ps 36:6; 42:7; 104:6; 107:24; Pr 30:4 and the Spirit of GodGe 2:7; Job 33:4Ps 104:30Isa 32:15 was hoveringDt 32:11; Isa 31:5 over the waters. 2 Jn 1:1-2; Isa 45:12,18
3 And God said,ver 6Ps 33:6,9148:5; Heb 11:3 "Let there be light," and there was light.2Co 4:6*1Jn 1:5-7 4 God saw that the light was good,ver 10,12,18,21,25,31; Ps 104:31; 119:68; Jer 31:35 and he separated the light from the darkness.ver 14; Ex 10:21-23; Job 26:10; 38:19; Ps 18:28; 104:20; 105:28; Isa 42:16; 45:7 5 God calledver 8,10; Ge 2:19,23 the light "day," and the darkness he called "night."Ps 74:16 And there was evening, and there was morningver 8,13,19,23,31—the first day. 5 2Co 4:6; Ps 33:6,9; 74:16
6 And God said,S ver 3 "Let there be an expanseS ver 1; Isa 44:24Jer 10:122Pe 3:5 between the watersver 9; Ps 24:2; 136:6 to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.Ge 7:11Job 26:1038:8-11,16Ps 68:33148:4Pr 8:28 And it was so.ver 9,11,15,24 8 God calledS ver 5 the expanse "sky."Job 9:8; 37:18; Ps 19:1; 104:2; Isa 40:22; 44:24; 45:12; Jer 10:12; Zec 12:1 And there was evening, and there was morningS ver 5—the second day. 8 Ps 148:4; Jer 10:12
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place,Job 38:8-11Ps 33:7104:6-9Pr 8:29Jer 5:22; 2Pe 3:5 and let dry groundPs 95:5; Jnh 1:9; Hag 2:6 appear." And it was so.S ver 7 10 God calledS ver 5 the dry ground "land," and the gathered watersPs 33:7 he called "seas."Job 38:8; Ps 90:2; 95:5 And God saw that it was good.S ver 4 10 Ps 104:6-9; Jer 5:22; 2Pe 3:5
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation:Ps 65:9-13; 104:14 seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.ver 12,21,24,25; Ge 2:5; 6:20; 7:14; Lev 11:14,19,22; Dt 14:13,18; 1Co 15:38" And it was so.S ver 7 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kindsS ver 11 and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.S ver 4 13 And there was evening, and there was morningS ver 5—the third day. 13 Ps 65:9-13
14 And God said, "Let there be lightsPs 74:16136:7 in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night,S ver 4 and let them serve as signsJer 10:2 to mark seasonsPs 104:19 and days and years,Ge 8:22; Jer 31:35-36; 33:20,25 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.S ver 7 16 God made two great lights—the greater lightDt 17:3; Job 31:26; Jer 43:13; Eze 8:16 to governPs 136:8 the day and the lesser light to governPs 136:9 the night.Job 38:33; Ps 74:16; 104:19; Jer 31:35; Jas 1:17 He also made the stars.Dt 4:19Job 9:938:7,31-32Ps 8:333:6; Ecc 12:2Isa 40:26Jer 8:2; Am 5:8 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night,Jer 33:20,25 and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.S ver 4 19 And there was evening, and there was morningS ver 5—the fourth day. 19 Ps 74:16; 104:19; 136:9
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures,Ps 146:6 and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."Ge 2:19 21 So God createdS ver 1 the great creatures of the seaJob 3:8; 7:12; Ps 74:13; 148:7; Isa 27:1; Eze 32:2 and every living and moving thing with which the water teems,Ps 104:25-26 according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.S ver 11 And God saw that it was good.S ver 4 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."ver 28; Ge 8:179:1,7,19; 47:27; Lev 26:9; Eze 36:11 23 And there was evening, and there was morningS ver 5—the fifth day. 23 Ge 8:17; Ps 104:25-26
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creaturesGe 2:19 according to their kinds:S ver 11 livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.S ver 7 25 God made the wild animalsGe 7:21-22Jer 27:5 according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.S ver 11 And God saw that it was good.S ver 4
26 Then God said, "Let usGe 3:5,22; 11:7Ps 100:3Isa 6:8 make manIsa 45:18 in our image,ver 27Ge 5:39:6Ps 8:5; 82:6; 89:6; 1Co 11:7; 2Co 4:4; Col 1:15; 3:10Jas 3:9 in our likeness,Ac 17:28-29 and let them ruleGe 9:2Ps 8:6-8 over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air,Ps 8:8 over the livestock, over all the earth,[b] Hebrew; Syriac all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 26 Ge 29:6; Ps 8:6-8; 100:3
27 So God createdS ver 1 manGe 2:7; Ps 103:14; 119:73 in his own image,S ver 261Co 11:7 27 1Co 11:7 27 in the image of GodGe 5:1 he created him; 27 male and femaleGe 5:2; Mt 19:4*; Mk 10:6*Gal 3:28 he created them.Dt 4:32 27 Ge 5:2; Mk 10:6
28 God blessed them and said to them,Ge 33:5; Jos 24:3; Ps 113:9; 127:3,5 "Be fruitful and increase in number;S Ge 17:6 fill the earthS ver 22; Ge 6:1Ge 9:1,7; Lev 26:9Ac 17:26 and subdue it. Rule overver 26; Ps 115:16 the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.Ps 8:6-8" 28 Ge 9:1,7; Lev 26:9
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.Ge 9:3; Dt 12:15Ps 104:141Ti 4:3 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of lifeGe 2:7; 7:22 in it—I give every green plant for food.Job 38:41Ps 78:25104:14,27111:5; 136:25145:15147:9" And it was so. 30 Ps 104:14,27; 145:15
31 God saw all that he had made,Ps 104:24136:5; Pr 3:19; Jer 10:12 and it was very good.S ver 41Ti 4:4 And there was evening, and there was morningS ver 5—the sixth day. 31 Ps 104:24 Genesis 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.Dt 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3; Ps 104:2; Isa 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13 1 Isa 44:24
2 By the seventh dayDt 5:14 God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested[c] Or ceased ; also in verse 3 from all his work.ver 2-3Ex 20:1131:1734:21; Jn 5:17Heb 4:4* 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,Ex 16:23; 20:10; 23:12; 31:15; 35:2Lev 23:3Ne 9:14Isa 58:13Jer 17:22 because on it he restedPs 95:11; Heb 4:1-11 from all the work of creatingS Ge 1:1 that he had done. 3 Ex 20:11; Heb 4:4
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4 Adam and Eve
4 This is the accountGe 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10,27; 25:12,19; 36:1,9; 37:2 of the heavens and the earth when they were created.Ge 1:1; Job 38:8-11
4 When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens— 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth[d] Or land ; also in verse 6 and no plant of the field had yet sprung up,Ge 1:11 for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth[e] Or land ; also in verse 6Job 38:28Ps 65:9-10Jer 10:13 and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams[f] Or mist came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground— 7 the Lord God formedIsa 29:16; 43:1,21; 44:2 the man[g] The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah) ; it is also the name Adam (see Gen. 2:20).S Ge 1:27 from the dustGe 3:1918:27; Job 4:19; 10:9; 17:16; 34:15; Ps 90:3; Ecc 3:20; 12:7 of the groundGe 3:23; 4:2Ps 103:14Jer 18:6; 1Co 15:47 and breathed into his nostrils the breathS Ge 1:2; Job 27:3Job 33:4Isa 2:22 of life,S Ge 1:30; Isa 42:5Ac 17:25 and the man became a living being.Job 12:10; 32:8; 33:4; 34:14; Ps 104:29; Isa 57:16; Eze 37:51Co 15:45* 7 1Co 15:45; Ge 3:19; Ps 103:14
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;ver 10,15Ge 3:23,244:16; 13:10Isa 51:3Eze 28:13; 31:9,16; 36:35; Joel 2:3 and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—treesEze 31:8 that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of lifeGe 3:22,24Pr 3:18; 11:30S Rev 2:722:2,14,19 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Eze 47:12 9 Ge 3:22,24; Rev 2:7; 22:2,14,19
10 A riverNu 24:6; Ps 46:4; Eze 47:5 watering the garden flowed from Eden;S ver 8 from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah,Ge 10:7; 25:18 where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[h] Or good; pearlsNu 11:7 and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[i] Possibly southeast Mesopotamia 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris;Ge 41:1Da 10:4 it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.Ge 15:18; 31:21; Ex 23:31; Nu 22:5; Dt 1:7; 11:24; Jos 1:4; 2Sa 8:3; 1Ki 4:21; 2Ki 23:29; 24:7; 1Ch 5:9; 18:3; 2Ch 35:20; Jer 13:4; 46:2; 51:63; S Rev 9:14 14 Da 10:4
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of EdenS ver 8 to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;Ge 3:1-2 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,Ge 3:11,17 for when you eat of it you will surely die."Ge 3:1,3; 5:5; 9:29Dt 30:15,19Jer 42:16; Eze 3:18S Ro 5:12S 6:23Jas 1:15 17 Ro 5:12; 6:23; Dt 30:15,19
18 The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."Pr 31:111Co 11:91Ti 2:13 18 1Co 11:9
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the fieldPs 8:7 and all the birds of the air.S Ge 1:20 He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man calledS Ge 1:5 each living creature,Ge 1:24 that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. 20 Ps 8:7
20 But for Adam[j] Or the man no suitable helperGe 3:20; 4:1 was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;Ge 15:12; 1Sa 26:12; Job 33:15 and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs[k] Or took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[l] Or part1Co 11:8,9,121Ti 2:13 he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 22 1Co 11:8-9,12
23 The man said, 23 "This is now bone of my bones 23 and flesh of my flesh;Ge 29:14Eph 5:28-30 23 Eph 5:28-30 23 she shall be calledS Ge 1:5 'woman,[m] The Hebrew for woman sounds like the Hebrew for man. ' 23 for she was taken out of man.1Co 11:8"
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be unitedMal 2:15 to his wife, and they will become one flesh.Mt 19:5*; Mk 10:7-8*; 1Co 6:16*; Eph 5:31* 24 Mt 19:5; Eph 5:31; Mal 2:15
25 The man and his wife were both naked,Ge 3:7,10-11Isa 47:3; La 1:8 and they felt no shame. 25 Ge 3:7,10-11
