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CVG Genesis Chapter 1

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1. In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth.

2. But the earth was empty and unprepared and darkness was upon the abyss and the Spirit of God was brought upon the water.***

3. And God said, "Let there be light." And light came about.***

4. And God said, "The light is good." And God separated between the light and the darkness.

5. And God called the light, day and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6. And God said, "Let there be the dome of the skey between the water and let there be a division between water and water." And it was so.

7. And God made the dome of the sky; and God divided between the water, that which was below the dome of the sky and between the water above the dome of the sky.

8. And God caled the dome of the sky heaven. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

9. And God said, "Let the water under the heaven come together into one place and let dry ground appear. And it was thus. And the water under the heaven came together into its place and dry ground appeared.

10. And God called the dry ground, earth and the gathering of waters He called seas. And God saw that it was good.

11. And God said, "Let the earth sprout plant[s] of grass, bearing seed according to their genus and according to their likeness and fruitful tree[s] making fruit which [have] its seeds in them according to their genus on the earth." And it was thus.

12. And the earth bore plant[s] of grass, bearing seed according to their genus and according to their likeness, and fruitful tree[s] making fruit which have their seeds in them according to their genus on the earth. And God saw that it was good.

13. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

14. And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky of the heavens to illuminate the Earth to separate between the day and between the night. And let them be for signs and seasons and to [distinguish] the days and years."

15. "And let them be for illumination in the dome of the sky of the heavens thus to illumine the earth," and it was so.

16. ANd God made the two great lights, the great light for the order of the day and the lesser for the order of the night and the stars.

17. And God put them in the dome of the sky of the heavens thus to illumine the Earth.

18. And to order the day and the night and to separate between the light and between the darkness and God saw that it was good.

19. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

20. And God said, "Let the waters bring out creeping things of living things and flying birds on the Earth down in the dome of the sky of the heavens." And it was so.

21. And God made the great sea creatures and every living creeping thing which the waters brought out according to their kind and every flying bird according to its kind. And God saw that they were good.

22. And God blessed them laying, "Increase and propagate and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds propagate on the earth."

23. And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24. And God said, "Let the earth bring out living thing[s] according to their kind, four-footed animals and creeping things and beasts of the Earth according to their kind." And it was so."

25. And God made the beasts of the Earth according to their kind and the herd-like animals according to their kind and all the creeping things of the Earth according to their kind. And God saw that they were good.

26. And God said, "Let us make man according to our image and our likeness and let them rule the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the herd-like creatures and every thing on the Earth and all of the creeping things creeping on the Earth."