Genesis 1:1–11

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ²And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

³And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. ⁴And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness. ⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

⁶And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters. ⁷And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so. ⁸And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning—a second day.

⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. ¹⁰And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.