The Creation

1 ^(A)In the beginning ^(B)God ^(C)created the heavens and the earth.

² And the earth was a ^(A)[a]formless and desolate emptiness, and ^(B)darkness was over the ^[b]surface of the deep, and ^(C)the Spirit of God ^(D)was hovering over the ^[c]surface of the waters.

¹⁰ And God called the dry land “earth,” and the ^(A)gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good.

¹¹ Then God said, “Let the earth sprout ^[a](A)vegetation, ^[b]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to ^[c]their kind ^[d]with seed in them”; and it was so.

¹² The earth produced ^[a]vegetation, ^[b]plants yielding seed according to ^[c]their kind, and trees bearing fruit ^[d]with seed in them, according to ^[e]their kind; and God saw that it was good.

¹⁵ and they ^[a]shall serve as lights in the ^[b]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

^17 (A)God placed them in the ^[a]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

²⁰ Then God said, “Let the waters ^[a]teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth ^[b]in the open ^[c]expanse of the heavens.”

²² God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

^24 (A)Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to ^[a]their kind: livestock and crawling things and animals of the earth according to ^[b]their kind”; and it was so.