CHAPTER I.

GENESIS, i., ii.

CREATION.

Chaos-Light-The Waters are Divided-Herbage-Animals-God's Image-Rest.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Now the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the spirit of God was brooding upon 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 the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And it was evening and it was morning, a first day.

And God said: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters, for God made the firmament that it might divide the waters which are under the firmament from the waters which are above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And it was evening and it was morning, a second day.

And God said: Let the waters under the heaven be gathered unto one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said: Let the

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earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, fruit trees bearing after their kind upon the earth fruit, whose seed is in itself. And it was so. And the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing after their kind fruit, whose seed is in itself. And God saw that it was good. And it was evening and it was morning, a third day.

And God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, that they might be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and that they might be for lights in the firmament of the heavens 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 firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 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. And it was evening and it was morning, a fourth day.

And God said: Let the waters swarm with moving creatures that have life, and let fowl fly above the earth in the face of the firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living thing that moveth, wherewith the waters swarm, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And it was evening and it was morning, a fifth day.

And God said: Let the earth bring forth life after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind. And it was so. And God made the

beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground. after their kind. And God saw that it was good. And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let him subdue the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and the cattle, and all the earth, and every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth. And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them; and God said to them: Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and make it subject; and subdue the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, whereon is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you shall they be for food: and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein is life, all green herbs shall be for food. And it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

So the heavens were finished, and the earth, and all their hosts; and God ended on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because on it he had rested from all his work.

CHAPTER II.

GENESIS, ii., iii.

ADAM AND EVE.

Adam-The Garden-The Two Trees-Adam's Wife Eve-The Serpent-Beguiled-The Curse.

Now God Jehovah formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living creature.

And God Jehovah planted a garden in Eden, eastward; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And from the ground God Jehovah made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, or good for food; and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And God Jehovah took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and to keep it. And God Jehovah commanded the man, saying: From every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; only from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, from it thou shalt not eat; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

And God Jehovah said: It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And God Jehovah formed from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man called the creatures, that was their name. And the man gave names to all the

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