CHAP. I.

creation of beaven and earth, 3 of the light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth Separated from the waters, 12 and made fruitful, 14 of the fun, moon, and stars, 20 of fith and fow, 24 of beats and cattel, 26 of man in the image of God. 29 Allo the appointment of food.

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N the beginning God created the

heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form,and void,and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God faid, Let there be light: there was light.

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4 And God faw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God faid, Let there be a firmament in the midft of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters..

7 And God made the firmament, and divi. ded the waters which were under the firm ment, from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was fo.

8 Aad God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the fecond day.

9 And God faid, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry-land appear: and it was fo.

10 And God called the dry-land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God faw that it was good.

11 And God faid. Let the earth bring forth grafs, the herb yielding feed, and the fruitTree yielding fruit, after his kind, whofe feed is in it felf, upon the earth: and it was fo,

bis kind: and God faw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God faid, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night: and let them be for figns, and for feafons, and for days, and years.

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth and it was fo.

24 And God faid,Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattel, and creeping thing, and beaft of the earth after his kind: and it was fo.

25 And God made the beaft of the earth after his kind, and cartel after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God faw that it was good.

15 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the leffer light to rule the night: be made the ftars alfo. 17 And God fet them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the Right, and to divide the light from the darkneis: and God faw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God faid, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may flie above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

26 And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have

dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattel, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God faw that it was good.

22 And God bleffed them, faying, Be fruitfal, and multiply, and fill the waters in the feas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23. And the evening and the morning were the ith day.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them.

28 And God bleffed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and repleni the earth, and fubdue it: and hive dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1 The first Sabbath. 4 The manner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden 10 the river thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19. 20 The naming of the creatures. 21 The making of woman, and inflitation of marriage. Hus were finish

29 And God faid, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing feed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding feed to you it fhall be for meat.

30 And to every beaft of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, bave given every green herb for meat and it was fo.

31 And God faw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the fixth day. CHAT. II.

2 And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he refted on the feventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God bleffed the feventh day, and fan&ified it becaufe that in it he had refted from all his work, which God created and made.

4 Thefe are the generations of the hea vens and of the earth, when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field, before it grew for the LORD God had not cafed it to rain upon the earth,and there w not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mit from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the LORD God formed man of the duft of the ground, and breathed into his notrils the breath of life; and man became a living foul.

8 And the LORD God planted a garden eaft-ward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the fight, and good for food: the tree of life allo in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pifont that is in A 2