Verse 1: In the beginning El-him created the heavens and the earth.

Verse 2: The earth was unformed and desolate, and darkness covered the surface of the abyss. The breath of El-him hovered above the surface of the water.

Verse 3: El-him said, "Let there be light." and there was light.

Verse 4: El-him saw that the light was good, and El-him divided the light from the darkness.

Verse 5: El-him called the light day, and the darkness He called night. It became evening and it became morning, one day.

Verse 6: El-him said, "Let there be a canopy in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters."

Verse 7: El-him made the canopy, and divided the waters which were beneath the canopy, from the waters which were above the canopy, and it was so.

Verse 8: El-him called the canopy heaven. It became evening and it became morning the second day.

Verse 9: El-him said, "Let the waters beneath the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dryness be seen." It was so.

Verse 10: El-him called the dryness, "earth", and the gathering of the waters, He called "seas", and El-him saw that it was good.

Verse 11: El-him said, "Let the earth sprout grass, seed-yielding herbs, fruit trees bearing fruit of its own kind, with its seed within it, upon the earth." And it was so.

Verse 12: The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed of its kind, and trees bearing fruit which has in it seeds of its kind; and El-him saw that it was good.

Verse 13: It became evening and it became morning, the third day.

Verse 14: El-him said, "Let there be lights in the canopy of heaven to divide between the day and the night, and they will serve for signs for seasons, for days and for years.

Verse 15: They will be for lights in the canopy of heaven to illuminate the earth." And it was so.

Verse 16: El-him made the two great lights, the large light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars

Verse 17: El-him set them in the canopy of the heaven to illuminate the earth,

Verse 18: to rule in the day and the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness; and El-him saw that it was good.

Verse 19: It became evening and it became morning, the fourth day.

Verse 20: El-him said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth, in the open canopy of the heaven."

Verse 21: And thus El-him created the great whales, and every living creature that creeps, with which the waters teem, of its kind, and every winged bird of its kind; and El-him saw that it was good.

Verse 22: El-him blessed them saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."

Verse 23: It became evening and it became morning, the fifth day.

Verse 24: El-him said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures, each of its kind, animals [of pasture], creeping things, and beasts of the earth, each to its kind." And it was so.

Verse 25: And thus El-him made the beasts of the earth, each of its kind, the animals [of pasture] each of its kind, and everything that creeps on the ground, each of its kind, and El-him saw that it was good.

Verse 26: El-him said, "Let us make man in our image, as our likeness, and let him dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the heaven, the animals, all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Verse 27: And thus El-him created man in His form. In the form of El-him, He created him, male and female, He created them.

Verse 28: El-him blessed them, and El-him said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, and dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the heaven, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Verse 29: El-him said, "Behold, I have given you all seed-yielding herbs that are on the surface of the earth, and every tree that has seed-yielding fruit; to you it shall be for food.

Verse 30: And for every animal of the earth, for every bird of the heaven, and for everything that creeps on the ground, in which there is a living spirit, all vegetational herbs shall be [their] food." And it was so.

Verse 31: El-him saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good. It became evening and it became morning, the sixth day.