18 (A)For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
he (B)did not create it empty,
    (C)he formed it to be inhabited!):
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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16 The heavens are the Lord's heavens,
    but the earth he has given to the children of man.

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12 (A)It is he who (B)made the earth by his power,
    (C)who established the world by his wisdom,
    and (D)by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

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12 (A)I made the earth
    and created man on it;
it was my hands (B)that stretched out the heavens,
    and (C)I commanded all their host.

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Thus says God, the Lord,
    who created the heavens (A)and stretched them out,
    who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
(B)who gives breath to the people on it
    and spirit to those who walk in it:

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The earth was (A)without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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10 And (A)I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. (B)The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 11 And I will multiply on you (C)man and beast, and (D)they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in (E)your former times, and (F)will do more good to you than ever before. (G)Then you will know that I am the Lord. 12 I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. (H)And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer (I)bereave them of children.

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15 (A)“It is he who made the earth by his power,
    who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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26 Then God said, (A)“Let us make man[a] in our image, (B)after our likeness. And (C)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:26 The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam

(A)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    besides me there is no God;
    (B)I equip you, though you do not know me,
(C)that people may know, from the rising of the sun
    and from the west, that there is none besides me;
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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