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Genesis 1 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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The Creation

(Gen 2:4–9; Job 38:4–11; Jhn 1:1–5 )
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:7 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:8 - And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10 - And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:13 - And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15 - and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:17 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:19 - And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:21 - And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:23 - And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - 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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:27 - And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - 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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:31 - And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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