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Genesis 1

    ²The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.

    ³And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

    ⁴And God saw that the light was good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it; and God separated the light from the darkness.^(B)

    ⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

    ⁶And God said, Let there be a firmament [the expanse of the sky] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters [below] from the waters [above].

    ⁷And God made the firmament [the expanse] and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.

    ⁸And God called the firmament Heavens. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    ⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected into one place [of standing], and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

    ¹⁰God called the dry land Earth, and the accumulated waters He called Seas. And God saw that this was good (fitting, admirable) and He approved it.

    ¹¹And God said, Let the earth put forth [tender] vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the earth. And it was so.

    ¹²The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it.

    ¹³And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

    ¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs and tokens [of God's provident care], and [to mark] seasons, days, and years,^(C)

    ¹⁵And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light upon the earth. And it was so.

    ¹⁶And God made the two great lights--the greater light (the sun) to rule the day and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night. He also made the stars.

    ¹⁷And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    ¹⁸To rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it.

    ¹⁹And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    ²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly and swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.

    ²¹God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it.

    ²²And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.

    ²³And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

    ²⁴And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creeping things, and [wild] beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so.

    ²⁵And God made the [wild] beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and domestic animals according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it.

    ²⁶God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.^(D)

    ²⁷So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.^(E)

    ²⁸And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.

    ²⁹And God said, See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the land and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.

    ³⁰And to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the ground--to everything in which there is the breath of life--I have given every green plant for food. And it was so.

    ³¹And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 2

    ²And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.^(F)

    ³And God blessed (spoke good of) the seventh day, set it apart as His own, and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all His work which He had created and done.^(G)

    ⁴This is the history of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens--

    ⁵When no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,

    ⁶But there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground--

    ⁷Then the Lord God formed man from the ^[a]dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.^(H)

    ⁸And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted).

    ⁹And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight or to be desired--good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life also in the center of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of [the difference between] good and evil and blessing and calamity.^(I)

    ¹⁰Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [river] heads.

    ¹¹The first is named Pishon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

    ¹²The gold of that land is of high quality; bdellium (pearl?) and onyx stone are there.

    ¹³The second river is named Gihon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Cush.

    ¹⁴The third river is named Hiddekel [the Tigris]; it is the one flowing east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

    ¹⁵And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it.

    ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

    ¹⁷But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

    ¹⁸Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.

    ¹⁹And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.

    ²⁰And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every [wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.

    ²¹And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh.

    ²²And the rib or part of his side which the Lord God had taken from the man He built up and made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

    ²³Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.

    ²⁴Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.^(J)

    ²⁵And the man and his wife were both naked and were not embarrassed or ashamed in each other's presence.

Genesis 3

    ²And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden,

    ³Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.

    ⁴But the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die,^(L)

    ⁵For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.

    ⁶And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.

    ⁷Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apronlike girdles.

    ⁸And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

    ⁹But the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?

    ¹⁰He said, I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.

    ¹¹And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?

    ¹²And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me--she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate.

    ¹³And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled (cheated, outwitted, and deceived) me, and I ate.

    ¹⁴And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [domestic] animals and above every [wild] living thing of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust [and what it contains] all the days of your life.

    ¹⁵And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her ^[b]Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.^(M)

    ¹⁶To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your grief and your suffering in pregnancy and the pangs of childbearing; with spasms of distress you will bring forth children. Yet your desire and craving will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.

    ¹⁷And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat [of the fruits] of it all the days of your life.

    ¹⁸Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

    ¹⁹In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

    ²⁰The man called his wife's name Eve [life spring], because she was the mother of all the living.

    ²¹For Adam also and for his wife the Lord God made long coats (tunics) of skins and clothed them.

    ²²And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us [the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit], to know [how to distinguish between] good and evil and blessing and calamity; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live ^[c]forever--

    ²³Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

    ²⁴So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the ^[d]cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.^(N)

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Matthew 1

    ²Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

    ³Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Aram,

    ⁴Aram the father of Aminadab, Aminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,

    ⁵Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,

    ⁶Jesse the father of King David, King David the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah,^(B)

    ⁷Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa,

    ⁸Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram [Jehoram], Joram the father of Uzziah,

    ⁹Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

    ¹⁰Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,

    ¹¹And Josiah became the father of Jeconiah [also called Coniah and Jehoiachin] and his brothers about the time of the removal (deportation) to Babylon. [II Kings 24:14; I Chron. 3:15, 16.]

    ¹²After the exile to Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel [Salathiel], Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

    ¹³Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,

    ¹⁴Azor the father of Sadoc, Sadoc the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud,

    ¹⁵Eliud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

    ¹⁶Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, Who is called the Christ. (the Messiah, the Anointed)

    ¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen, from David to the Babylonian exile (deportation) fourteen generations, from the Babylonian exile to the Christ fourteen generations.

    ¹⁸Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place under these circumstances: When His mother Mary had been promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant [through the power] of the Holy Spirit.

    ¹⁹And her [promised] husband Joseph, being a just and upright man and not willing to expose her publicly and to shame and disgrace her, decided to repudiate and dismiss (divorce) her quietly and secretly.

    ²⁰But as he was thinking this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary [as] your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of (from, out of) the Holy Spirit.

    ²¹She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from ^[a]failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].

    ²²All this took place that it might be fulfilled which the Lord had spoken through the prophet,

    ²³Behold, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel--which, when translated, means, God with us.^(C)

    ²⁴Then Joseph, being aroused from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him: he took [her to his side as] his wife.

    ²⁵But he had no union with her as her husband until she had borne her firstborn Son; and he called His name Jesus.