Genesis 1:29–2:3

^29–30Then God said, “I’ve given you

every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth

And every kind of fruit-bearing tree,

given them to you for food.

To all animals and all birds,

everything that moves and breathes,

I give whatever grows out of the ground for food.”

And there it was.

³¹God looked over everything he had made;

it was so good, so very good!

It was evening, it was morning—

Day Six.

¹2Heaven and Earth were finished,

down to the last detail.

^2–4By the seventh day

God had finished his work.

On the seventh day

he rested from all his work.

God blessed the seventh day.

He made it a Holy Day

Because on that day he rested from his work,

all the creating God had done.