Genesis 1:3-13

3God said, ‘There will be light!’ And there was light.

4God saw that the light was good. He caused the light and the dark to be separate.

5God called the light ‘day’. He called the dark ‘night’. Evening passed and then it was morning. That was the first day.

6Then God said, ‘A wide space will appear between the waters. So the waters will be in two separate places.’

7So God made this wide space. He made the water under the space separate from the water that was above it. What God said happened.

8God called the wide space ‘sky’. Evening passed and then it was morning. That was the second day.

9God said, ‘The water that is under the sky will come together in one place. Then dry ground will appear.’ And what God said happened.

10God called the dry ground ‘land’. He called the water that had come together ‘sea’. God looked at what he had made. He saw that it was good.

11Then God said, ‘The land will cause plants to grow. There will be plants with their seeds and trees with their fruits. Each kind of plant and tree will have its own seeds and fruits.’ And what God said happened.

12All kinds of plants and trees began to grow in the ground. The plants made seeds. The trees made fruits with seeds in them. Each plant made its own kind of seeds. God looked at what he had made. He saw that it was good.

13Evening passed and then it was morning. That was the third day.