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below from the waters that are above the sky." And it was done. And God

called the sky the Heavens. And there was an evening and a morning,

making the second day.



And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be brought together, and

let the dry land appear." And it was done. And God called the dry land

Earth and the waters that were brought together Seas. And God saw that

it was good.



And God said, "Let plants and trees grow from the earth." And it was

done. And plants and trees grew from the earth, each plant bringing

forth its own kind of seed and each tree its own kind of fruit, and God

saw that it was good. And there was an evening and a morning, making the

third day.



And God said, "Let there be lights in the heavens to separate the night

from the day. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, the days, and the

years. Let them be lights in the heavens to light the earth." And it was

done. So God made the two great lights (the sun and the moon): the

greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night. God made the

stars also and placed them in the heavens to throw light upon the earth.

And God saw that it was good. And there was an evening and a morning,

making the fourth day.



And God said, "Let the waters bring forth many living creatures and let

birds fly above the earth and in the sky." And God made large

sea-monsters and all kinds of living creatures with which the waters

abound, and all kinds of birds. And God saw that it was good. And he

blessed them, saying, "Increase and fill the waters in the seas, and let

the birds increase on the earth." And there was an evening and a

morning, making the fifth day.



And God said, "Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures,

cattle and creeping things and wild beasts." And it was done. So God

made all the different kinds of wild beasts, and the cattle, and

everything that crawls upon the ground. And God saw that it was good.



And God said, "Let us make man like ourselves. Let him rule over the

fish in the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the wild beasts and

all the living things that crawl upon the ground." And God made man like

himself, like God he made him. He made them male and female.



And God blessed them, and said to them, "Have children, increase, live

all over the earth, and conquer it; rule over the fish of the sea, the

birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls upon the

ground."



And God said, "See, to you I give every plant which grows on all the

earth, and every tree which bears fruit with its own kind of seed. It

shall be food for you. And to every wild beast and to every bird of the

sky and to every thing that crawls on the earth and is alive, I give

every green herb for food." And it was done.



And when God saw everything that he had made, he saw that it was very

good. And there was an evening and a morning, making the sixth day.



And the heavens and the earth were finished and all that there was in

them. And on the seventh day when God had finished the work which he had

done, he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and

made it holy, for in it he rested from all the work which he had done.