Book of Genesis, Chapter 1

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Genesis 1 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 1 of Genesis—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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1. ¶ ¹In the beginning ²God ³created the heavens and the earth.
2. The earth was ^[a]4formless and void, and ⁵darkness was over the ^[b]surface of the deep, and ⁶the Spirit of God ⁷was ^[c]moving over the ^[d]surface of the waters.
3. Then ⁸God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
4. God saw that the light was ⁹good; and God ¹⁰separated the light from the darkness.
5. ¹¹God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And ¹²there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6. ¶ Then God said, “Let there be ^[e]an ¹³expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
7. God made the ^[f]expanse, and separated ¹⁴the waters which were below the ^[g]expanse from the waters ¹⁵which were above the ^[h]expanse; and it was so.
8. God called the ^[i]expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9. ¶ Then God said, “¹⁶Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let ¹⁷the dry land appear”; and it was so.
10. God called the dry land earth, and the ¹⁸gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
11. Then God said, “Let the earth sprout ^[j]19vegetation, ^[k]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after ^[l]their kind ^[m]with seed in them”; and it was so.
12. The earth brought forth ^[n]vegetation, ^[o]plants yielding seed after ^[p]their kind, and trees bearing fruit ^[q]with seed in them, after ^[r]their kind; and God saw that it was good.
13. There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14. ¶ Then God said, “Let there be ^[s]20lights in the ^[t]21expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for ²²signs and for ²³seasons and for days and years;
15. and let them be for ^[u]lights in the ^[v]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
16. God made the two ^[w]great lights, the ²⁴greater ^[x]light ^[y]to govern the day, and the lesser ^[z]light ^[aa]to govern the night; He made ²⁵the stars also.
17. ²⁶God placed them in the ^[ab]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18. and ^[ac]to ²⁷govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20. ¶ Then God said, “Let the waters ^[ad]teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth ^[ae]in the open ^[af]expanse of the heavens.”
21. God created ²⁸the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
23. There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24. ¶ ²⁹Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after ^[ag]their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after ^[ah]their kind”; and it was so.
25. God made the ³⁰beasts of the earth after ^[ai]their kind, and the cattle after ^[aj]their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26. ¶ Then God said, “Let ³¹Us make ³²man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them ³³rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the ^[ak]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27. God created man ³⁴in His own image, in the image of God He created him; ³⁵male and female He created them.
28. God blessed them; and God said to them, “³⁶Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the ^[al]sky and over every living thing that ^[am]moves on the earth.”
29. Then God said, “Behold, ³⁷I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the ^[an]surface of all the earth, and every tree ^[ao]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30. and ³⁸to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the ^[ap]sky and to every thing that ^[aq]moves on the earth ^[ar]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
31. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very ³⁹good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ Or a waste and emptiness
2. ^ Lit face of
3. ^ Or hovering
4. ^ Lit face of
5. ^ Or a firmament
6. ^ Or firmament
7. ^ Or firmament
8. ^ Or firmament
9. ^ Or firmament
10. ^ Or grass
11. ^ Or herbs
12. ^ Lit its
13. ^ Lit in which is its seed
14. ^ Or grass
15. ^ Or herbs
16. ^ Lit its
17. ^ Lit in which is its seed
18. ^ Lit its
19. ^ Or luminaries, light-bearers
20. ^ Or firmament
21. ^ Or luminaries, light-bearers
22. ^ Or firmament
23. ^ Or luminaries, light-bearers
24. ^ Or luminary, light-bearer
25. ^ Lit for the dominion of
26. ^ Or luminary, light-bearer
27. ^ Lit for the dominion of
28. ^ Or firmament
29. ^ Lit for the dominion of
30. ^ Or swarm
31. ^ Lit on the face of
32. ^ Or firmament
33. ^ Lit its
34. ^ Lit its
35. ^ Lit its
36. ^ Lit its
37. ^ Lit heavens
38. ^ Lit heavens
39. ^ Or creeps
40. ^ Lit face of
41. ^ Lit in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed
42. ^ Lit heavens
43. ^ Or creeps
44. ^ Lit in which is a living soul

REFERENCES

1. ^ Ps 102:25; Is 40:21; Jn 1:1, 2; Heb 1:10
2. ^ Ps 89:11; 90:2; Ac 17:24; Ro 1:20; Heb 11:3
3. ^ Jb 38:4; Is 42:5; 45:18; Re 4:11
4. ^ Je 4:23
5. ^ Jb 38:9
6. ^ Ps 104:30; Is 40:13, 14
7. ^ De 32:11; Is 31:5
8. ^ Ps 33:6, 9; 2Co 4:6
9. ^ Ps 145:9, 10
10. ^ Is 45:7
11. ^ Ps 74:16
12. ^ Ps 65:8
13. ^ Is 40:22; Je 10:12; 2Pe 3:5
14. ^ Jb 38:8-11
15. ^ Ps 148:4
16. ^ Ps 104:6-9; Je 5:22; 2Pe 3:5
17. ^ Ps 24:1, 2; 95:5
18. ^ Ps 33:7; 95:5; 146:6
19. ^ Ps 65:9-13; 104:14; Heb 6:7
20. ^ Ps 74:16; 136:7
21. ^ Ps 19:1; 150:1
22. ^ Je 10:2
23. ^ Ps 104:19
24. ^ Ps 136:8, 9
25. ^ Jb 38:7; Ps 8:3; Is 40:26
26. ^ Je 33:20, 25
27. ^ Je 31:35
28. ^ Ps 104:25-28
29. ^ Ge 2:19; 6:20; 7:14; 8:19
30. ^ Ge 7:21, 22; Je 27:5
31. ^ Ge 3:22; 11:7
32. ^ Ge 5:1; 9:6; 1Co 11:7; Eph 4:24; Jm 3:9
33. ^ Ps 8:6-8
34. ^ Ge 5:1f; 1Co 11:7; Eph 4:24; Col 3:10
35. ^ Mt 19:4; Mr 10:6
36. ^ Ge 9:1, 7; Le 26:9; Ps 127:3, 5
37. ^ Ps 104:14; 136:25
38. ^ Ps 145:15, 16; 147:9
39. ^ Ps 104:24, 28; 119:68; 1Ti 4:4

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