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 THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES,

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.&emsp; And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.&emsp; And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.&emsp; And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.&emsp; And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.&emsp; And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.&emsp; And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.&emsp; And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.&emsp; And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.&emsp; And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.&emsp; And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:&emsp; and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.&emsp; And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.&emsp; And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,&emsp; and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.&emsp; And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.&emsp; And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.&emsp; And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.&emsp; And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.&emsp; And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.&emsp; And 1