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And the <B><font color="#800080">Spirit</font></B> of <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> moved upon the face of the waters. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let there be light: and there was light. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw the light, that <I>it was</I> good: and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> divided the light from the darkness. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> called the light Day, and the darkness <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> made the firmament, and divided the waters which <I>were</I> under the firmament from the waters which <I>were</I> above the firmament: and it was so. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry <I>land</I> appear: and it was so. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> called the dry <I>land</I> Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> Seas: and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw that <I>it was</I> good. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let the earth bring forth <I>vegetation</I> {grass}, the herb yielding seed, <I>and</I> the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed <I>is</I> in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the earth brought forth <I>vegetation</I> {grass}, <I>and</I> herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed <I>was</I> in itself, after its kind: and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw that <I>it was</I> good. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the evening and the morning were the third day.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: <B><I><font color="#800080">He</font></I></B><I> made</I> the stars also. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw that <I>it was</I> good. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl <I>that</I> may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> created great <I>sea monsters</I> {whales}, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw that <I>it was</I> good. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind: and it was so. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> made the beast of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind: and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw that <I>it was</I> good. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Let <B><font color="#6600CC">Us</font></B> make man in <B><font color="#800080">Our</font></B> image, after <B><font color="#800080">Our</font></B> likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> created man in <B><font color="#800080">His</font></B> <B><I><font color="#800080">Own</font></I></B> image, in the image of <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> created <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> him; male and female created <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> blessed them, and <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, Behold, <B><font color="#800080">I</font></B> have given you every herb bearing seed, which <I>is</I> upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which <I>is</I> the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for <I>food </I>{meat}. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>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>there is</I> life, <B><I><font color="#800080">I</font></I></B><I> have given</I> every green herb for <I>food </I>{meat}: and it was so. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> saw every thing that <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> had made, and, behold, <I>it was</I> very good. 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