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. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

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.

16And God made the

two great lights: the greater light to And God said: 'Let there be a rule the day, and the lesser light to firmament in the midst of the waters, rule the night; and the stars. 17And and let it divide the waters from the God set them in the firmament of waters.' And God made the firma- the heaven to give light upon the ment, and divided the waters which earth, 18and to rule over the day and were under the firmament from the over the night, and to divide the light waters which were above the firma- from the darkness; and God saw that ment; and it was so. And God called it was good. 19And there was eventhe firmament Heaven. And there ing and there was morning, a fourth was evening and there was morning, a second day.

day.

20 And God said: 'Let the waters And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, under the heaven be gathered together and let fowl fly above the earth in the unto one place, and let the dry land open firmament of heaven.' And appear.' And it was so. 10 And God God created the great sea-monsters, called the dry land Earth, and the and every living creature that creepeth, gathering together of the waters called wherewith the waters swarmed, after He Seas; and God saw that it was its kind, and every winged fowl after good. "And God said: 'Let the its kind; and God saw that it was earth put forth grass, herb yielding good. 22And God blessed them, sayseed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after ing: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, fill the waters in the seas, and let upon the earth.' And it was so. fowl multiply in the earth.' 23And 12And the earth brought forth grass, there was evening and there was herb yielding seed after its kind, and morning, a fifth day.

"These 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 made. And God blessed the seventh forth the living creature after its day, and hallowed it; because that kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and in it He rested from all His work beast of the earth after its kind.' which God in creating had made. And it was so. 25 And 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. And 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; 30and 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. And the name every green herb for food.' And it was of the second river is Gihon; the same so. 31And God saw every thing that He is it that compasseth the whole land of had made, and, behold, it was very Cush. And the name of the third good. And there was evening and river is "Tigris; 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. 15 And 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

Heb. Hiddekel.