Genesis 1 - Exegeses: The Ready Research Bible

1 CREATION

In the beginning

God Elohim created the heaven heavens and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form being waste , and void;

and darkness was upon the face of the deep abyss .

And the Spirit of God Elohim

moved brooded upon the face of the waters.

3 DAY ONE

And God Elohim said,

Let there be light:

and there was became light.

4 And God Elohim saw the light, that it was good:

and God divided Elohim separated

between the light from and between the darkness.

5 And God Elohim called the light Day,

and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening and the morning

were became the first day.

6 DAY TWO

And God Elohim said,

Let there be a firmament an expanse

in the midst of the waters,

and let it divide separate the waters from the waters.

7 And God made Elohim worked the firmament expanse ,

and divided separated the waters

which were under the firmament expanse

from the waters

which were above the firmament expanse :

and it was so thus it became .

8 And God Elohim called the firmament expanse

Heaven Heavens .

And the evening and the morning

were became the second day.

9 DAY THREE

And God Elohim said,

Let the waters under the heaven heavens

be gathered together congregate unto one place,

and let the dry land appear be seen :

and it was so thus it became .

10 And God Elohim called the dry land Earth;

and the gathering together congregating of the waters

called he Seas:

and God Elohim saw that it was good.

11 And God Elohim said,

Let the earth bring forth grass sprout sprouts ,

the herb yielding seeding seed,

and the fruit tree yielding working fruit

after his kind in species ,

whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:

and it was so thus it became .

12 And the earth brought forth grass sprouted herbs ,

and herb yielding seeding seed after his kind in species ,

and the tree yielding working fruit,

whose seed was in itself, after his kind in species :

and God Elohim saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning

were became the third day.

14 DAY FOUR

And God Elohim said,

Let there be lights

in the firmament expanse of the heaven heavens

to divide separate between the day

from and between the night;

and let them be for signs, and for seasons,

and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights

in the firmament expanse of the heaven heavens

to give light upon light up the earth:

and it was so thus it became .

16 And God made Elohim worked two great lights;

the greater light to rule for the reign of the day,

and the lesser light to rule for the reign of the night:

he made the stars also.

17 And God set Elohim gave them

in the firmament expanse of the heaven heavens

to give light upon light up the earth,

18 And to rule reign over the day and over the night,

and to divide separate between the light

from and between the darkness:

and God Elohim saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning

were became the fourth day.

20 DAY FIVE

And God Elohim said,

Let the waters bring forth abundantly teem

the moving creature with teemers

that hath life have a living soul ,

and fowl flyers that may fly above the earth

in the open firmament upon the face of the expanse

of heaven the heavens .

21 And God Elohim created great whales monsters ,

and every living creature soul that moveth creepeth ,

which the waters brought forth abundantly teemed ,

after their kind in species ,

and every winged fowl after his kind flyer in species :

and God Elohim saw that it was good.

22 And God Elohim blessed them, saying,

Be fruitful Bear fruit , and multiply abound ,

and fill the waters in the seas,

and let fowl multiply flyers abound in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning

were became the fifth day.

24 DAY SIX

And God Elohim said,

Let the earth bring forth the living creature soul

after his kind in species ,

cattle animals , and creeping thing creepers ,

and beast of live beings on the earth

after his kind in species :

and it was so thus it became .

25 And God made Elohim worked

the beast of live beings on the earth after his kind in species ,

and cattle after their kind animals in species ,

and every thing that creepeth creeper upon the earth soil

after his kind in species :

and God Elohim saw that it was good.

26 And God Elohim said,

Let us make man work Adam in our image,

after our likeness:

and let them have dominion subjugate

over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl flyers of the air heavens ,

and over the cattle animals , and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing creeper

that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God Elohim created man Adam in his own image,

in the image of God Elohim created he him;

male and female created he them.

28 And God Elohim blessed them,

and God Elohim said unto them,

Be fruitful Bear fruit , and multiply abound ,

and replenish fill the earth, and subdue it:

and have dominion subjugate over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl flyers of the air heavens ,

and over every living thing live being

that moveth creepeth upon the earth.

29 And God Elohim said, Behold,

I have given you every herb bearing seeding seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,

in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seeding seed;

to you it shall be for meat food .

30 And to every beast live being of the earth,

and to every fowl flyer of the air heavens ,

and to every thing that creepeth creeper upon the earth,

wherein there is life a living soul ,

I have given - every green herb for meat food :

and it was so thus it became .

31 And God Elohim

saw every thing all that he had made worked ,

and, behold, it was very mighty good.

And the evening and the morning

were became the sixth day.