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Genesis 1 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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The Creation

(Gen 2:4–9; Job 38:4–11; Jhn 1:1–5 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6 - And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:7 - And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:8 - And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10 - And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:13 - And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15 - And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:17 - And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:19 - And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:21 - And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:23 - And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:27 - And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:31 - And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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