Genesis 1:11-31

11Then God said, “Let the earth sprout 12vegetation, 3plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after 4their kind 5with seed in them”; and it was so. 12The earth brought forth 6vegetation, 7plants yielding seed after 8their kind, and trees bearing fruit 9with seed in them, after 10their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14Then God said, “Let there be 1112lights in the 1314expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for 15signs and for 16seasons and for days and years; 15and let them be for 17lights in the 18expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16God made the two 19great lights, the 20greater 21light 22to govern the day, and the lesser 23light 24to govern the night; He made 25the stars also. 1726God placed them in the 27expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and 28to 29govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20Then God said, “Let the waters 30teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth 31in the open 32expanse of the heavens.” 21God created 33the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

2434Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after 35their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after 36their kind”; and it was so. 25God made the 37beasts of the earth after 38their kind, and the cattle after 39their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

26Then God said, “Let 40Us make 41man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them 42rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 43sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27God created man 44in His own image, in the image of God He created him; 45male and female He created them. 28God blessed them; and God said to them, “46Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 47sky and over every living thing that 48moves on the earth.” 29Then God said, “Behold, 49I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the 50surface of all the earth, and every tree 51which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30and 52to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the 53sky and to every thing that 54moves on the earth 55which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. 31God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very 56good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.