¹In the beginning, God fashioned the sky and the earth; ²the earth was an empty wasteland, darkness upon the face of the deep, with God's breath hovering over the face of the waters.  ³Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.  ⁴God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.  ⁵God named the light Day and the darkness he named Night; there was evening and there was morning: one day. 

 ⁶Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters separating water from water." ⁷And God made the dome and it separated the water that was below the dome from the water that was above the dome.  And it was so.  ⁸And God named the dome Sky; and there was evening and there was morning: a second day.

⁹Then God said, "Let the waters below the sky be gathered into one place so that the dry land appears.  And it was so. ¹⁰And God named the dry land Earth and the gathering of the waters he named Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation --grasses producing seed and fruit trees bearing fruit with seeds in it, according to their kinds -- upon the earth."  And it was so. ¹²And the earth sent up vegetation --grasses producing seed, according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seeds in it, according to their kinds.  And God saw that it was good. ¹³And there was evening and there was morning: a third day. 

¹⁴Then God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, let them be as signs for sacred seasons and for days and years:  ¹⁵let them be as lights in the dome of the sky to shine upon the earth."  And it was so .  ¹⁶And God made the two great lights -- the greater light for the governance of the day, and the smaller light for the governance of the night -- and the stars.  ¹⁷And God set them in the dome of the sky to shine upon the earth, ¹⁸and to rule over the day and the night and to separate the light from the darkness.  And God saw that it was good.  ¹⁹And there was  evening and there was morning: a fourth day.

²⁰Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures and let birds fly over the earth as far as the dome of the sky."  ²¹And God fashioned the great sea creatures and all living creatures that dart about, with which the waters abound, according to their kind, and all the winged birds, according to their kind.  And God saw that it was good. ²²And God blessed them, "Be fertile and increase and fill the waters in the seas and let the birds increase on the earth." ²³And there was evening and there was morning: a fifth day.

²⁴Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures, according to their kind, cattle, creeping things and beasts of the earth, according to their kind.  And it was so.  ²⁵And God made beasts of the earth, according to their kinds, and the cattle, according to their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground, according their kind.  And God saw that it was good.  ²⁶Then God said, "Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness, that they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and the cattle and all the earth, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth." ²⁷And God fashioned man in his own image, in the image of God he fashioned him; male and female he fashioned them. ²⁸And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it: rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on the earth."  ²⁹And God said, "See, I give to you all seed-producing grasses on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit, for your food.  ³⁰And to all the creatures of the earth, to all the birds of the sky and to all the creeping things of the earth which have in them the breath of life, I give all the green plants for food."  And it was so.  ³¹And God saw all that he had made and how very good it was!  And there was evening and there was morning: a sixth day.

2 ¹And the sky and the earth and all their host were completed.  ²And God completed the works he had made by the seventh day and he rested on the seventh day from all the works he had made. ³God blessed the seventh day and made it holy for on it God rested from all his work, which he had done in creating.  ⁴And these are the origins of the sky and the earth  in their creation.