The Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts
or scriptures. Varying parts of the Bible are considered to be a product of divine inspiration
and a record of the relationship between God and humans by Christians, Jews, Samaritans,
and Rastafarians.
The Beginning
1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and
empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over
the waters.
3
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good,
and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness
he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So
God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it
was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the
second day.
9
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground
appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he
called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the
land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12
The land
produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with
13
seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening,
and there was morning—the third day.
14
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night,
15
and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be
lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16
God made two great
lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also
made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18
to govern
the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was
good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living
thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and
22
every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them
and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds
increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock,
the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.”
And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according
to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And
God saw that it was good.
26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule
over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild
animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and
subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature
that moves on the ground.”
29
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and
every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of
the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—
everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there
was morning—the sixth day.

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