Genesis
1:1–2:3
(ESV)
Leader In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was without form and void,
and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the waters.
People And
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
And God saw that the light was good.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was
morning, the first day.
Leader And
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and
let it separate the waters from the waters.”
And God made the expanse and
separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that
were above the expanse. And it was so.
People
And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there
was morning, the second day.
Leader And
God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together
into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.
God called the dry land Earth, and
the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw
that it was good.
And God said, “Let the earth
sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing
fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the
earth.” And it was so.
People The
earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to
their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each
according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was
morning, the third day.
Leader And
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for
seasons, and for days and years,
and let them be lights in the
expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was
so.
People 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.
And God set them in the expanse of
the heavens to give light on the earth,
to rule over the day and over the
night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that
it was good.
And there was evening and there was
morning, the fourth day.
Leader And
God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”
So
God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that
moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and
every winged bird according to its kind.
People And God saw that it was
good.
And God blessed them, saying, “Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds
multiply on the earth.”
And there was evening and there was
morning, the fifth day.
Leader And
God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to
their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth
according to their kinds.”
People And
it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth
according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds,
and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And
God saw that it was good.
Leader Then
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of
the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
People And
God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply
and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of
the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.”
Leader And
God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that
is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its
fruit. You shall have them for food.
And to every beast of the earth and
to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the
earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every
green plant for food.” And it was so.
People And
God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
All Thus
the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God
finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he
had done in creation.
Text: The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001.
Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
Layout: Designed by Floyd H. Johnson (2012)
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