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 fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And I, God, created Man in mine own image, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him; male and female created I them. And I, God, blessed them, and I, God, said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth up­on the earth. And I, God, said unto Man, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which shall be the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat; and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein I grant life, there shall be given every clean herb for meat; and it was so, even as I spake. And I, God, saw every thing that I had made, and, behold, all things which I had made were very good; and the evening and the morning were the sixth Day.

Thus the Heaven and the Earth were finished, and all the host of them; and on the seventh Day, I, God, ended my work, and all things which I had made; and I rested on the seventh Day from all my work, and all things which I had made were finished, and I, God, saw that they were good, and I, God, blessed the seventh Day, and sanctified it; because I had rested from all my work which I, God, had created and made.

And now, behold, I say unto you that these are the generations of the Heaven and of the Earth when they were created, in the day that I, the Lord God, made the heaven and the earth, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground, for in heaven crea­ted I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth; neither in the water, neither in the air; but I, the Lord God, spake, and there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And I, the Lord God, formed Man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first Man also: nevertheless, all things were before created; but, spiritually, were they created and made according to my word.

And I, the Lord God, planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there I put the Man whom I had formed. And out of the ground I, the Lord God, made to grow naturally, every tree that is pleasant to the sight of Man; and Man could behold it. And they became also a living soul. It was spiritual in the day that I created it; for it remaineth in the sphere which I, God, created it in, yea, even all things which I prepared for the use of Man; and Man saw that it was good for food. And I, the Lord God, placed the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.