Genesis 1:1-10

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God makes the earth

1 In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was without shape and it was empty. Deep water covered the earth and everywhere was dark. The Spirit of God moved above the water.^[a]

³ God said, ‘There will be light!’

And there was light.

⁴ God saw that the light was good.

He caused the light and the dark to be separate.

⁵ God called the light ‘day’. He called the dark ‘night’.

Evening passed and then it was morning.

That was the first day.^[b]

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

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

⁸ God called the wide space ‘sky’.

Evening passed and then it was morning.

That was the second day.

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

And what God said happened.

¹⁰ God 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.