³ God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

⁶ God said, “Let there be an expanse^[a] between the waters, and let it separate the water from the water.”

⁹ God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear,” and it was so. ⎣The waters under the sky gathered to their own places, and the dry land appeared.⎦^[a]

¹¹ God said, “Let the earth produce plants—vegetation that produces seed, and trees that bear fruit with its seed in it—each according to its own kind on the earth,” and it was so.

²⁰ God said, “Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let birds and other winged creatures^[a] fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

³¹ God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.

³ God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy, because on it he rested from all his work of creation that he had done.