1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth— ²Now^a the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface 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 caused there to be a separation between the light and between 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 a vaulted dome^b in the midst of the waters, and let it cause a separation between the waters.”^c ⁷So^d God made the vaulted dome,^e and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome^f and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome.^g And it was so. ⁸And God called the vaulted dome^h “heaven.”ⁱ And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

⁹And God said, “Let the waters under heaven^j be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰And God called the dry ground “earth,” and he called the collection of the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good. ¹¹And God said, “Let the earth produce green plants that will bear seed—fruit trees bearing fruit in which there is seed^k—according to its^l kind, on the earth.” And it was so.

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Genesis 1:1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Footnotes

aOr “And”
bOr “expanse”
cLiterally “Let there be a separation made between waters to waters”
dOr “And”
eOr “expanse”
fOr “expanse”
gOr “expanse”
hOr “expanse”
iOr “sky”
jOr “the sky”
kLiterally “which its seed is in it”
lOr “their”