Genesis 1:12-29

12The earth brought forth 1vegetation, 2plants yielding seed after 3their kind, and trees bearing fruit 4with seed in them, after 5their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14Then God said, “Let there be 67lights in the 89expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for 10signs and for 11seasons and for days and years; 15and let them be for 12lights in the 13expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16God made the two 14great lights, the 15greater 16light 17to govern the day, and the lesser 18light 19to govern the night; He made 20the stars also. 1721God placed them in the 22expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and 23to 24govern 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 25teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth 26in the open 27expanse of the heavens.” 21God created 28the 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.

2429Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after 30their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after 31their kind”; and it was so. 25God made the 32beasts of the earth after 33their kind, and the cattle after 34their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

26Then God said, “Let 35Us make 36man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them 37rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 38sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27God created man 39in His own image, in the image of God He created him; 40male and female He created them. 28God blessed them; and God said to them, “41Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 42sky and over every living thing that 43moves on the earth.” 29Then God said, “Behold, 44I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the 45surface of all the earth, and every tree 46which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;