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And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness <i>was</i> upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And God saw the light, that <i>it was</i> good; and God divided the light from the darkness.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God saw the light, that <i>it was</i> good: and God divided the light from the darkness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thus God 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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry <i>land</i> appear”; and it was so.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And God called the dry <i>land</i> Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that <i>it was</i> good.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God called the dry <i>land</i> Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb <i>that</i> yields seed, <i>and</i> the fruit tree <i>that</i> yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed <i>is</i> in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, <i>and</i> the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed <i>is</i> in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the earth brought forth grass, the herb <i>that</i> yields seed according to its kind, and the tree <i>that</i> yields fruit, whose seed <i>is</i> in itself according to its kind. And God saw that <i>it was</i> good.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the earth brought forth grass, <i>and</i> herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed <i>was</i> in itself, after his kind: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the evening and the morning were the third day.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the evening and the morning were the third day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. <i>He made</i> the stars also.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: <i>he made</i> the stars also.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that <i>it was</i> good.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that <i>it was</i> good.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, <i>each</i> according to its kind”; and it was so.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that <i>it was</i> good.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So God created man in His <i>own</i> image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So God created man in his <i>own</i> image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God blessed them, and God 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And God said, “See, I have given you every herb <i>that</i> yields seed which <i>is</i> on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God said, Behold, I 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 meat.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which <i>there is</i> life, <i>I have given</i> every green herb for food”; and it was so.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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, <i>I have given</i> every green herb for meat: and it was so.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed <i>it was</i> very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, <i>it was</i> very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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