January 1
Genesis 1:1 — 3:24
Month of January: Genesis 1:1 — Leviticus 4:35
January
1
Genesis 1:1 —
3:24
Genesis
2 Now
the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the
surface of [the] watery deep; and God’s active force was moving to and fro over
the surface of the waters.
3 And
God proceeded to say: “Let light come to be.” Then there came to be light.
4 After
that God saw that the light was good, and God brought about a division between
the light and the darkness.
5 And
God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there
came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day.
6 And
God went on to say: “Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a
dividing occur between the waters and the waters.”
7 Then
God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that
should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse.
And it came to be so.
8 And
God began to call the expanse Heaven. And there came to be evening and there
came to be morning, a second day.
9 And
God went on to say: “Let the waters under the heavens be brought together into
one place and let the dry land appear.” And it came to be so.
10 And
God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he
called Seas. Further, God saw that [it was] good.
11 And
God went on to say: “Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation
bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of
which is in it, upon the earth.” And it came to be so.
12 And
the earth began to put forth grass, vegetation bearing seed according to its
kind and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in it according to its kind.
Then God saw that [it was] good.
13 And
there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a third day.
14 And
God went on to say: “Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to
make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and
for seasons and for days and years.
15 And
they must serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the
earth.” And it came to be so.
16 And
God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for
dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also
the stars.
17 Thus
God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth,
18 and
to dominate by day and by night and to make a division between the light and the
darkness. Then God saw that [it was] good.
19 And
there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fourth day.
20 And
God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let
flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the
heavens.”
21 And
God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves
about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged
flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.
22 With
that God blessed them, saying: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the waters
in the sea basins, and let the flying creatures become many in the earth.”
23 And
there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fifth day.
24 And
God went on to say: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their
kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according
to its kind.” And it came to be so.
25 And
God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the
domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground
according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.
26 And
God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness,
and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of
the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal
that is moving upon the earth.”
27 And
God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 Further,
God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the
earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying
creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the
earth.”
29 And
God went on to say: “Here I have given to YOU all vegetation bearing seed which
is on the surface of the whole earth and every tree on which there is the fruit
of a tree bearing seed. To YOU let it serve as food.
30 And
to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and
to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have
given all green vegetation for food.” And it came to be so.
31 After
that God saw everything he had made and, look! [it was] very good. And there
came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.
2
Thus the
heavens and the earth and all their army came to their completion.
2 And by
the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he
proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made.
3 And
God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has
been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making.
4 This
is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in
the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
5 Now
there was as yet no bush of the field found in the earth and no vegetation of
the field was as yet sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain upon
the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6 But
a mist would go up from the earth and it watered the entire surface of the
ground.
7 And
Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow
into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.
8 Further,
Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there he put the man
whom he had formed.
9 Thus
Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one’s sight
and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the
tree of the knowledge of good and bad.
10 Now
there was a river issuing out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it
began to be parted and it became, as it were, four heads.
11 The
first one’s name is Pishon; it is the one encircling the entire land of Havilah,
where there is gold.
12 And
the gold of that land is good. There also are the bdellium gum and the onyx
stone.
13 And
the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one encircling the entire land
of Cush.
14 And
the name of the third river is Hiddekel;
it is the one going to the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 And
Jehovah God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of Eden to
cultivate it and to take care of it.
16 And
Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: “From every tree of the garden
you may eat to satisfaction.
17 But
as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for
in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”
18 And
Jehovah God went on to say: “It is not good for the man to continue by himself.
I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him.”
19 Now
Jehovah God was forming from the ground every wild beast of the field and every
flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see
what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call it, each living
soul, that was its name.
20 So
the man was calling the names of all the domestic animals and of the flying
creatures of the heavens and of every wild beast of the field, but for man there
was found no helper as a complement of him.
21 Hence
Jehovah God had a deep sleep fall upon the man and, while he was sleeping, he
took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over its place.
22 And
Jehovah God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a
woman and to bring her to the man.
23 Then
the man said:
“This is at last bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh.
This one will be called Woman,
Because from man this one was taken.”
24 That
is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife
and they must become one flesh.
25 And
both of them continued to be naked, the man and his wife, and yet they did not
become ashamed.
3 Now
the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field
that Jehovah God had made. So it began to say to the woman: “Is it really so
that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?”
2 At
this the woman said to the serpent: “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we
may eat.
3 But
as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden,
God has said, ‘YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do
not die.’”
4 At
this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die.
5 For
God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be
opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad.”
6 Consequently
the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something to be
longed for to the eyes, yes, the tree was desirable to look upon. So she began
taking of its fruit and eating it. Afterward she gave some also to her husband
when with her and he began eating it.
7 Then
the eyes of both of them became opened and they began to realize that they were
naked. Hence they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for
themselves.
8 Later
they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden about the breezy part
of the day, and the man and his wife went into hiding from the face of Jehovah
God in between the trees of the garden.
9 And
Jehovah God kept calling to the man and saying to him: “Where are you?”
10 Finally
he said: “Your voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked
and so I hid myself.”
11 At
that he said: “Who told you that you were naked? From the tree from which I
commanded you not to eat have you eaten?”
12 And
the man went on to say: “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me
[fruit] from the tree and so I ate.”
13 With
that Jehovah God said to the woman: “What is this you have done?” To this the
woman replied: “The serpent—it deceived me and so I ate.”
14 And
Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent: “Because you have done this thing,
you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild
beasts of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust is what you will eat
all the days of your life.
15 And
I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed.
He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.”
16 To
the woman he said: “I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy; in
birth pangs you will bring forth children, and your craving will be for your
husband, and he will dominate you.”
17 And
to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and took to eating
from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from
it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all
the days of your life.
18 And
thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the
field.
19 In
the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for
out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20 After
this Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of
everyone living.
21 And
Jehovah God proceeded to make long garments of skin for Adam and for his wife
and to clothe them.
22 And
Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing
good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually
take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,—”
23 With
that Jehovah God put him out of the garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from
which he had been taken.
24 And
so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of Eden the
cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to
guard the way to the tree of life.