in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. and the earth was withou
t form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of g
od moved upon the face of the waters. and god said, let there be light and there
 was light. and god saw the light, that it was good and god divided the light fr
om the darkness. and god called the light day, and the darkness he called night.
 and the evening and the morning were the first day. and god said, let there be 
a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the wa
ters. and god made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the fi
rmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so. and god ca
lled the firmament heaven. and the evening and the morning were the second day. 
and god said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one plac
e, and let the dry land appear and it was so. and god called the dry land earth 
and the gathering together of the waters called he seas and god saw that it was 
good. and god said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and
 the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the
 earth and it was so. and the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed 
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his
 kind and god saw that it was good. and the evening and the morning were the thi
rd day. and god said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divi
de the day from the night and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for da
ys, and years and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give 
light upon the earth and it was so. and god made two great lights the greater li
ght to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars al
so. and god set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth
, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the 
darkness and god saw that it was good. and the evening and the morning were the 
fourth day. and god said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creat
ure that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament 
of heaven. and god created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, 
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fo
wl after his kind and god saw that it was good. and god blessed them, saying, be
 fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply 
in the earth. and the evening and the morning were the fifth day. and god said, 
let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creepi
ng thing, and beast of the earth after his kind and it was so. and god made the 
beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing 
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and god saw that it was good. and go
d said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness and let them have domin
ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl  thus the heavens and the earth 
were finished, and all the host of them. and on the seventh day god ended his