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Genesis 1
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The Creation

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth— 2 Now[a] the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good, and God caused there to be a separation between the light and between the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6 And God said, “Let there be a vaulted dome[b] in the midst of the waters, and let it cause a separation between the waters.”[c] 7 So[d] God made the vaulted dome,[e] and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome[f] and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome.[g] And it was so. 8 And God called the vaulted dome[h] “heaven.”[i] And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

9 And God said, “Let the waters under heaven[j] be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 And God called the dry ground “earth,” and he called the collection of the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, “Let the earth produce green plants that will bear seed—fruit trees bearing fruit in which there is seed[k]—according to its[l] kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth green plants bearing seed according to its[m] kind, and trees bearing fruit in which there was seed[n] according to its[o] kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 And God said, “Let there be lights[p] in the vaulted dome[q] of heaven[r] to separate day from night,[s] and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years, 15 and they shall be as lights[t] in the vaulted dome[u] of heaven[v] to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 And God made two lights,[w] the greater light[x] to rule[y] the day and the smaller light[z] to rule[aa] the night, and the stars. 17 And God placed them in the vaulted dome[ab] of heaven[ac] to give light on the earth 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate light from darkness.[ad] And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted dome[ae] of heaven.[af] 21 So[ag] God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird with wings according to its[ah] kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animals[ai] according to their kind.” And it was so. 25 So[aj] God made wild animals[ak] according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its[al] kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, “Let us make humankind in[am] our image and according to[an] our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven,[ao] and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth.” 27 So[ap] God created humankind in[aq] his image, in[ar] the likeness of God he created him,[as] male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven,[at] and over every animal that moves upon the earth.”

29 And God said, “Look—I am giving to you every plant that bears seed which is on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree that bears fruit.[au] They shall be yours as food.” 30 And to every kind of animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven,[av] and to everything that moves upon the earth in which there is life I am giving every green plant as food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:2 Or “And”
  2. Genesis 1:6 Or “expanse”
  3. Genesis 1:6 Literally “Let there be a separation made between waters to waters”
  4. Genesis 1:7 Or “And”
  5. Genesis 1:7 Or “expanse”
  6. Genesis 1:7 Or “expanse”
  7. Genesis 1:7 Or “expanse”
  8. Genesis 1:8 Or “expanse”
  9. Genesis 1:8 Or “sky”
  10. Genesis 1:9 Or “the sky”
  11. Genesis 1:11 Literally “which its seed is in it”
  12. Genesis 1:11 Or “their”
  13. Genesis 1:12 Or “their”
  14. Genesis 1:12 Literally “which its seed is in it”
  15. Genesis 1:12 Or “their”
  16. Genesis 1:14 Or “light sources”
  17. Genesis 1:14 Or “expanse”
  18. Genesis 1:14 Or “the sky”
  19. Genesis 1:14 Literally “to make a separation between the day and between the night”
  20. Genesis 1:15 Or “light sources”
  21. Genesis 1:15 Or “expanse”
  22. Genesis 1:15 Or “the sky”
  23. Genesis 1:16 Or “light sources”
  24. Genesis 1:16 Or “light source”
  25. Genesis 1:16 Literally “as the authority of”
  26. Genesis 1:16 Or “light source”
  27. Genesis 1:16 Literally “as the authority of”
  28. Genesis 1:17 Or “expanse”
  29. Genesis 1:17 Or “the sky”
  30. Genesis 1:18 Literally “make a separation between the light and between the darkness”
  31. Genesis 1:20 Or “expanse”
  32. Genesis 1:20 Or “the sky”
  33. Genesis 1:21 Or “And”
  34. Genesis 1:21 Or “their”
  35. Genesis 1:24 Literally “animals of the earth/land”
  36. Genesis 1:25 Or “And”
  37. Genesis 1:25 Literally “animals of the earth/land”
  38. Genesis 1:25 Or “their”
  39. Genesis 1:26 Or “as”
  40. Genesis 1:26 Or “as”
  41. Genesis 1:26 Or “the sky”
  42. Genesis 1:27 Or “And”
  43. Genesis 1:27 Or “as”
  44. Genesis 1:27 Or “as”
  45. Genesis 1:27 Or “it” collective: humankind
  46. Genesis 1:28 Or “the sky”
  47. Genesis 1:29 Literally “which in it fruit of a tree bears seed”
  48. Genesis 1:30 Or “the sky”
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Génesis 1
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)

La creación

1 Dios, en el principio,
    creó los cielos y la tierra.
2 La tierra era un caos total,
    las tinieblas cubrían el abismo,
y el Espíritu[a] de Dios se movía
    sobre la superficie de las aguas.
3 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que exista la luz!»
    Y la luz llegó a existir.
4 Dios consideró que la luz era buena
    y la separó de las tinieblas.
5 A la luz la llamó «día»,
    y a las tinieblas, «noche».
Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ese fue el primer día.

6 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que exista el firmamento
    en medio de las aguas, y que las separe!»
7 Y así sucedió: Dios hizo el firmamento
    y separó las aguas que están abajo,
    de las aguas que están arriba.
8 Al firmamento Dios lo llamó «cielo».
    Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ese fue el segundo día.

9 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que las aguas debajo del cielo
    se reúnan en un solo lugar,
    y que aparezca lo seco!»
Y así sucedió. 10 A lo seco Dios lo llamó «tierra»,
    y al conjunto de aguas lo llamó «mar».
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno.
11 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que haya vegetación sobre la tierra;
    que esta produzca hierbas que den semilla,
y árboles que den su fruto con semilla,
    todos según su especie!»
Y así sucedió. 12 Comenzó a brotar la vegetación:
    hierbas que dan semilla,
y árboles que dan su fruto con semilla,
    todos según su especie.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno.
13     Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ese fue el tercer día.

14 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que haya luces en el firmamento
    que separen el día de la noche;
que sirvan como señales de las estaciones,
    de los días y de los años,
15 y que brillen en el firmamento
    para iluminar la tierra!»
Y sucedió así. 16 Dios hizo los dos grandes astros:
    el astro mayor para gobernar el día,
y el menor para gobernar la noche.
    También hizo las estrellas.
17 Dios colocó en el firmamento
    los astros para alumbrar la tierra.
18 Los hizo para gobernar el día y la noche,
    y para separar la luz de las tinieblas.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno.
19     Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ese fue el cuarto día.

20 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que rebosen de seres vivientes las aguas,
    y que vuelen las aves sobre la tierra
    a lo largo del firmamento!»
21 Y creó Dios los grandes animales marinos,
    y todos los seres vivientes
    que se mueven y pululan en las aguas
y todas las aves,
    según su especie.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno,
22     y los bendijo con estas palabras:
«Sed fructíferos y multiplicaos;
    llenad las aguas de los mares.
    ¡Que las aves se multipliquen sobre la tierra!»
23 Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ese fue el quinto día.

24 Y dijo Dios: «¡Que produzca la tierra seres vivientes:
    animales domésticos, animales salvajes
    y reptiles, según su especie!»
Y sucedió así. 25 Dios hizo los animales domésticos,
    los animales salvajes y todos los reptiles,
    según su especie.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno,
26     y dijo: «Hagamos al ser humano
    a nuestra imagen y semejanza.
Que tenga dominio sobre los peces del mar,
    y sobre las aves del cielo;
sobre los animales domésticos,
    sobre los animales salvajes,[b]
y sobre todos los reptiles
    que se arrastran por el suelo».
27 Y Dios creó al ser humano a su imagen;
    lo creó a imagen de Dios.
Hombre y mujer los creó,
28     y los bendijo con estas palabras:
«Sed fructíferos y multiplicaos;
    llenad la tierra y sometedla;
dominad a los peces del mar y a las aves del cielo,
    y a todos los reptiles que se arrastran por el suelo».
29 También les dijo: «Yo os doy de la tierra
    todas las plantas que producen semilla
y todos los árboles que dan fruto con semilla;
    todo esto os servirá de alimento.
30 Y doy la hierba verde como alimento
    a todas las fieras de la tierra,
a todas las aves del cielo
    y a todos los seres vivientes
    que se arrastran por la tierra».
Y así sucedió. 31 Dios miró todo lo que había hecho,
    y consideró que era muy bueno.
Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ese fue el sexto día.

Footnotes

  1. 1:2 Espíritu. Alt. viento o soplo.
  2. 1:26 los animales salvajes (Siríaca); toda la tierra (TM).
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Genesis 1
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The Beginning

1 In the beginning(A) God created(B) the heavens(C) and the earth.(D) 2 Now the earth was formless(E) and empty,(F) darkness was over the surface of the deep,(G) and the Spirit of God(H) was hovering(I) over the waters.

3 And God said,(J) “Let there be light,” and there was light.(K) 4 God saw that the light was good,(L) and he separated the light from the darkness.(M) 5 God called(N) the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”(O) And there was evening, and there was morning(P)—the first day.

6 And God said,(Q) “Let there be a vault(R) between the waters(S) to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it.(T) And it was so.(U) 8 God called(V) the vault “sky.”(W) And there was evening, and there was morning(X)—the second day.

9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place,(Y) and let dry ground(Z) appear.” And it was so.(AA) 10 God called(AB) the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters(AC) he called “seas.”(AD) And God saw that it was good.(AE)

11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation:(AF) seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.(AG)” And it was so.(AH) 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds(AI) and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.(AJ) 13 And there was evening, and there was morning(AK)—the third day.

14 And God said, “Let there be lights(AL) in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night,(AM) and let them serve as signs(AN) to mark sacred times,(AO) and days and years,(AP) 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.(AQ) 16 God made two great lights—the greater light(AR) to govern(AS) the day and the lesser light to govern(AT) the night.(AU) He also made the stars.(AV) 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night,(AW) and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.(AX) 19 And there was evening, and there was morning(AY)—the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures,(AZ) and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”(BA) 21 So God created(BB) the great creatures of the sea(BC) and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it,(BD) according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.(BE) And God saw that it was good.(BF) 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”(BG) 23 And there was evening, and there was morning(BH)—the fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures(BI) according to their kinds:(BJ) the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.(BK) 25 God made the wild animals(BL) according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.(BM) And God saw that it was good.(BN)

26 Then God said, “Let us(BO) make mankind(BP) in our image,(BQ) in our likeness,(BR) so that they may rule(BS) over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,(BT) over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created(BU) mankind(BV) in his own image,(BW)
    in the image of God(BX) he created them;
    male and female(BY) he created them.(BZ)

28 God blessed them and said to them,(CA) “Be fruitful and increase in number;(CB) fill the earth(CC) and subdue it. Rule over(CD) the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.(CE)”

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.(CF) 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life(CG) in it—I give every green plant for food.(CH)” And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made,(CI) and it was very good.(CJ) And there was evening, and there was morning(CK)—the sixth day.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth
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