Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

1 When God began to create^[a] the heavens and the earth,^{(A) 2} the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God^[b] swept over the face of the waters.^{(B) 3} Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.^{(C) 4} And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.^{(D) 5} God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.^(E)

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all their multitude.^{(A) 2} On the sixth^[a] day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.^{(B) 3} So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.^(C)