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Let them praise the name of the Lord,
    for he commanded and they were created.(A)

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11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
    and by your will they existed and were created.”(A)

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And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”(A)

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By the word of the Lord the heavens were made
    and all their host by the breath of his mouth.(A)
He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
    he put the deeps in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear the Lord;
    let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him,(B)
for he spoke, and it came to be;
    he commanded, and it stood firm.(C)

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Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

When God began to create[a] the heavens and the earth,(A) 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)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.1 Or In the beginning God created
  2. 1.2 Or while the spirit of God or while a mighty wind

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.(A)

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11 Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.[a](A)

12 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.(B)
13 When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
    and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.11 This verse is in Aramaic

The sea is his, for he made it,
    and the dry land, which his hands have formed.(A)

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