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          DASV: Genesis 1    

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth was formless and empty; and darkness covered
the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over
the surface of the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
4 And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the
light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light "day," and the darkness he called
"night." And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let
it separate the waters above from the waters below."
7 And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were
under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse.
And it was so.
8 And God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening and
there was morning, the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the waters under the expanse be gathered
together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
10 And God called the dry land "earth," and the waters that were
gathered together he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation, seed bearing plants
and fruit-trees with seed-bearing fruit each according to its kind on
the earth." And it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth vegetation--plants bearing seed each
after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seeds, each after
their kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day
from the night; and let them be markers for the seasons, and for days
and years;
15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light
on earth." And it was so.
16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night--he also made the stars.
17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light
on the earth,
18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the
light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

20 And God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures,
and let the birds fly above the earth across the open expanse of the heavens."
21 And God created the great sea-creatures, and every living creature
that moves and swarms in the waters, each after its kind, and every
winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures each
according to its kind: cattle, creeping things and beasts of
the earth each according to its kind. And it was so.
25 And God made the beasts of the earth each according to their
kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that
creeps on the ground after its kind." And God saw that
it was good.
26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our
likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth."
27 So God created humans in his own image, in the image of God
he created him. He created them male and female.
28 And God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the earth, and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that
moves on the earth."
29 And God said, "Look, I have given you every seed bearing plant
which is upon the surface of all the earth, and every tree which
yields fruit with seed. They will be your food.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the sky,
and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life, I have
given every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was
very good. And there was evening and there was morning,
the sixth day.

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