בראשית GENESIS 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over 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 from the darkness. 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.' And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. 10 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 put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. 12And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. 14And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. 20 And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.' And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.' 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made. 4These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. 24 And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so. 25And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it "No shrub of the field was yet in the was good. 26And God said: 'Let us earth, and no herb of the field had make man in our image, after our yet sprung up; for the LORD God likeness; and let them have dominion had not caused it to rain upon the over the fish of the sea, and over the earth, and there was not a man to till fowl of the air, and over the cattle, the ground; but there went up a mist and over all the earth, and over every from the earth, and watered the whole creeping thing that creepeth upon face of the ground. "Then the LORD the earth.' 27And God created man God formed man of the dust of the in His own image, in the image of ground, and breathed into his nostrils God created He him; male and female the breath of life; and man became created He them. 28And God blessed a living soul. 8And the LORD God them; and God said unto them: 'Be planted a garden eastward, in Eden; fruitful, and multiply, and replenish and there He put the man whom He the earth, and subdue it; and have had formed. And out of the ground dominion over the fish of the sea, and made the LORD God to grow every tree over the fowl of the air, and over every that is pleasant to the sight, and good living thing that creepeth upon the for food; the tree of life also in the earth.' 29And God said: 'Behold, I midst of the garden, and the tree of the have given you every herb yielding knowledge of good and evil. 10And seed, which is upon the face of all the a river went out of Eden to water the earth, and every tree, in which is the garden; and from thence it was parted, fruit of a tree yielding seed-to you and became four heads. "The name it shall be for food; and to every of the first is Pishon; that is it which beast of the earth, and to every fowl compasseth the whole land of Havilah, of the air, and to every thing that where there is gold; 12and the gold of creepeth upon the earth, wherein that land is good; there is bdellium there is a living soul, [I have given] and the onyx stone. 13 And the name every green herb for food.' And it was of the second river is Gihon; the same so. 31 And God saw every thing that He is it that compasseth the whole land of had made, and, behold, it was very Cush. 14And the name of the third good. And there was evening and river is aTigris; that is it which goeth there was morning, the sixth day. toward the east of Asshur. And the 2 And the heaven and the earth fourth river is the Euphrates. 15And were finished, and all the host of the LORD God took the man, and put them. And on the seventh day God him into the garden of Eden to dress finished His work which He had it and to keep it. 16And the LORD made; and He rested on the seventh God commanded the man, saying: day from all His work which He had 'Of every tree of the garden thou a Heb. Hiddekel. |