Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

The land produced vegetation – plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.