Genesis 1:1–11

Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

¹When God began to create^a the heavens and the earth,^{* 2}the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God^b swept over the face of the waters.^{* 3}Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.^{* 4}And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.^{* 5}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 dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”^{* 7}So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.^{* 8}God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

⁹And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.^{* 10}God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.^{* 11}Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so.^*