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Genesis 1

The Creation of the World

 ³And God said,^(C) "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

 ⁶And God said,^(D) "Let there be an expanse^[a] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." ⁷And God made^[b] the expanse and^(E) separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were^(F) above the expanse. And it was so. ⁸And God called the expanse Heaven.^[c] And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

 ⁹And God said,^(G) "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. ¹⁰God called the dry land Earth,^[d] and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

 ¹¹And God said,^(H) "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants^[e] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on 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 is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³And there was evening and there was morning, the 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 for^(I) signs and for^(J) seasons,^[f] and for days and years, ¹⁵and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶And God^(K) made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. ¹⁷And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, ¹⁸to^(L) rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

 ²⁰And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds^[g] fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." ²¹So^(M) God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²²And God blessed them, saying,^(N) "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." ²³And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

 ²⁴And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. ²⁵And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

 ²⁶Then God said,^(O) "Let us make man^[h] in our image,^(P) after our likeness. And^(Q) let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
 ²⁷So God created man in his own image,
   in the image of God he created him;
   ^(R) male and female he created them.

 ²⁸And God blessed them. And God said to them,^(S) "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." ²⁹And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.^(T) You shall have them for food. ³⁰And^(U) to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. ^31(V) And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2

The Seventh Day, God Rests

The Creation of Man and Woman

 ⁵When no^(Z) bush of the field^[i] was yet in the land^[j] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man^(AA) to work the ground, ⁶and a mist^[k] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— ⁷then the LORD God formed the man of^(AB) dust from the ground and^(AC) breathed into his^(AD) nostrils the breath of life, and^(AE) the man became a living creature. ⁸And the LORD God planted a^(AF) garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. ⁹And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.^(AG) The tree of life was in the midst of the garden,^(AH) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

 ¹⁰A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. ¹¹The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of^(AI) Havilah, where there is gold. ¹²And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. ¹³The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river is the^(AJ) Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

 ¹⁵The LORD God took the man^(AK) and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. ¹⁶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil^(AL) you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat^[l] of it you^(AM) shall surely die."

 ¹⁸Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone;^(AN) I will make him a helper fit for^[m] him." ^19(AO) Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed^[n] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and^(AP) brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. ²⁰The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam^[o] there was not found a helper fit for him. ²¹So the LORD God caused a^(AQ) deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. ²²And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made^[p] into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³Then the man said,

   "This at last is^(AR) bone of my bones
   and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
   because she was^(AS) taken out of Man."^[q]

 ^24(AT) Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3

The Fall

   He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You^[r] shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?" ²And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, ³but God said,^(AV) 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" ^4(AW) But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. ⁵For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." ⁶So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,^[s] she took of its fruit^(AX) and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her,^(AY) and he ate. ^7(AZ) Then the eyes of both were opened,^(BA) and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

 ⁸And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool^[t] of the day, and the man and his wife^(BB) hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"^{[u] 10}And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid,^(BC) because I was naked, and I hid myself." ¹¹He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" ¹²The man said,^(BD) "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." ¹³Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said,^(BE) "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

 ¹⁴The LORD God said to the serpent,

   "Because you have done this,
   cursed are you above all livestock
   and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
   and^(BF) dust you shall eat
   all the days of your life.
¹⁵I will put enmity between you and the woman,
   and between your offspring^[v] and^(BG) her offspring;
^(BH) he shall bruise your head,
   and you shall bruise his heel."

 ¹⁶To the woman he said,

   "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
   ^(BI) in pain you shall bring forth children.
^(BJ) Your desire shall be for^[w] your husband,
   and he shall^(BK) rule over you."

 ¹⁷And to Adam he said,

   "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
   and have eaten of the tree
^(BL) of which I commanded you,
   'You shall not eat of it,'
^(BM) cursed is the ground because of you;
   ^(BN) in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
   and you shall eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹By the sweat of your face
   you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
   for out of it you were taken;
^(BO) for you are dust,
   and^(BP) to dust you shall return."

 ²⁰The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.^{[x] 21}And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

 ²²Then the LORD God said,^(BQ) "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand^(BR) and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—" ²³therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden^(BS) to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the^(BT) cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Matthew 1

The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

 ^2(D) Abraham was the father of Isaac, and^(E) Isaac the father of Jacob, and^(F) Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, ³and^(G) Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,^{[a] 4}and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, ⁵and Salmon the father of Boaz by^(H) Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ⁶and^(I) Jesse the father of David the king.

   And^(J) David was the father of Solomon by^(K) the wife of Uriah, ⁷and^(L) Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,^{[b] 8}and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram,^(M) and Joram the father of Uzziah, ⁹and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, ¹⁰and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos,^[c] and Amos the father of Josiah, ¹¹and^(N) Josiah the father of^(O) Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

 ¹²And after the deportation to Babylon:^(P) Jechoniah was the father of^(Q) Shealtiel,^[d] and^(R) Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, ¹³and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, ¹⁴and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, ¹⁵and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, ¹⁶and Jacob the father of^(S) Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

 ¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to^(T) the Christ fourteen generations.

The Birth of Jesus Christ

   (which means, God^(AF) with us). ²⁴When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, ²⁵but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And^(AG) he called his name Jesus.