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Genesis 1
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SCENIC
1:1–2:25
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THE ACCOUNT OF CREATION
Before the beginning there is only God. The story of Creation is a story about God,
what he does and how he interacts with his creation. By God’s hand, everything
comes into existence out of nothing. He builds it all with grandeur, makes each
creature with attention and care, and calls everything good. The Creation story
shows us how much God loves all that he has made. This is the beginning of the
big story—God’s story told in the Bible.
THE ACCOUNT OF CREATION
seeds produced plants and trees of the
same kind. And God saw that it was good.
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And evening passed and morning
came, marking the third day.
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Then God said, “Let there be a space
between the waters, to separate the waters
of the heavens from the waters of the
earth.” 7 And that is what happened. God
made this space to separate the waters of
the earth from the waters of the heavens.
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God called the space “sky.”
And evening passed and morning came,
marking the second day.
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Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the
sky flow together into one place, so dry
ground may appear.” And that is what
happened. 10 God called the dry ground
“land” and the waters “seas.” And God saw
that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the
land sprout with vegetation—every sort
of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow
seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will
then produce the kinds of plants and
trees from which they came.” And that
is what happened. 12 The land produced
vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants,
and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their
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Then God said, “Let there be light,” and
there was light. 4 And God saw that the light
was good. Then he separated the light from
the darkness. 5 God called the light “day”
and the darkness “night.”
And evening passed and morning came,
marking the first day.
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Then God said, “Let lights appear in the
sky to separate the day from the night. Let
them be signs to mark the seasons, days,
and years. 15 Let these lights in the sky
shine down on the earth.” And that is what
happened. 16 God made two great lights—the
larger one to govern the day, and the smaller
one to govern the night. He also made the
stars. 17 God set these lights in the sky to light
the earth, 18 to govern the day and night, and
to separate the light from the darkness. And
God saw that it was good.
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And evening passed and morning
came, marking the fourth day.
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Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with
fish and other life. Let the skies be filled
with birds of every kind.” 21 So God created
great sea creatures and every living thing
that scurries and swarms in the water,
and every sort of bird—each producing
offspring of the same kind. And God saw
that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them,
saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the
fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply
on the earth.”
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And evening passed and morning
came, marking the fifth day.
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Then God said, “Let the earth produce every
sort of animal, each producing offspring
of the same kind—livestock, small animals
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In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.* 2 The earth was formless
and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over
the surface of the waters.
1:1 Or In the beginning when God created the heavens and the
earth, . . . Or When God began to create the heavens and the earth, . . .
