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God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
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God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
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So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
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but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
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And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
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The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
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Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
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The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
