Beginning

1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

² And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³ ¶ And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

⁴ And God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

⁶ ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷ And God made a firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heavens. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

⁹ ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas; and God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth green grass, herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its nature, whose seed is in itself upon the earth; and it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth green grass and herb yielding seed after its kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself, according to its nature; and God saw that it was good.

¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁴ ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;

¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth

¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

²⁰ ¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth great quantities of creatures with living souls and fowl that may fly above the earth upon the face of the firmament of the heavens.

²¹ And God created the great dragons and every living soul that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their nature, and every winged fowl after its nature; 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 fowl multiply in the earth.

²³ And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴ ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its nature, beasts and serpents and animals of the earth after its nature; and it was so.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that moves upon the earth after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

²⁶ ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.

²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every beast that moves upon the earth.

²⁹ ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every grass bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green grass for food; and it was so.

³¹ ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

2 ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

² And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

³ And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he had rested from all his work which God created in perfection.

⁴ ¶ These are the origins of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens

⁵ and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and all the grass of the field before it grew, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and neither was there a man to till the ground.

⁶ But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷ And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

⁸ ¶ And the LORD God had planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was divided into four heads.

¹¹ The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

¹² and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon; this is the same that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; this is that which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁵ And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶ ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat;

¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou dost eat of it thou shalt surely die.

¹⁸ ¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

¹⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living soul, that was its name.

²⁰ And the man gave names to every beast, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a help meet for him.

²¹ ¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place;

²² and the LORD God built that which he had taken from the side of the man into a woman and brought her unto the man.

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man.

²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

3 ¶ Now the serpent was more astute than all the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Has God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

² And the woman answered unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it; neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

⁴ Then the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

⁵ For God knows that in the day ye eat of it then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

⁶ ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves girdles.

⁸ And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

⁹ ¶ And the LORD God called unto the man and said unto him, Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he replied, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹ ¶ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee not to eat?

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

¹³ Then the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

¹⁴ ¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all beasts and above every animal of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life;

¹⁵ and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; that seed shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

¹⁶ ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth sons; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷ ¶ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field;

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

²⁰ ¶ And the man called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.

²¹ ¶ Then the LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

²² ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever,

²³ therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.