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And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
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God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
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and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
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to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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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.
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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 in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Adam and Eve
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
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Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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Cain and Abel
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
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The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
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I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
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Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
