Key Events
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
God spoke all these words, saying,
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.