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the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was waving over the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And it was evening and it was morning, the first day.

¶ And God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters.

And God made the expansion, and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion: and it was so.

And God called the expansion Heaven. And it was evening and it was morning, the second day.

¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land be visible: and it was so.

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said. Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs yielding seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, in which its seed is upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees yielding fruit, in which its seed is after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

And it was evening and it was morning, the third day.*

¶ And God said. Let there be lights in the expansion of the heaven to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years;

And let them be for lights in the expansion of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.

And God set them in the expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

And to rule by day and by night, and to divide between the light and the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

And it was evening and it was morning, the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open expansion of the heaven.

And God created the great