³ Then ^(A)God said, “^[a]Let there be light”; and there was light.

⁶ Then God said, “Let there be ^[a]an ^(A)expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

⁹ Then God said, “^(A)Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let ^(B)the dry land appear”; and it was so.

¹⁴ Then God said, “Let there be ^[a](A)lights in the ^[b](B)expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and they shall ^[c]serve as ^(C)signs and for ^(D)seasons, and for days and years;

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.”

^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.

²⁶ Then God said, “^[a]Let ^(A)Us make ^(B)mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and ^[b]let them ^(C)rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”