Creation
A world received as gift.
Explore the opening chapters of Genesis, the goodness of creation, human responsibility and the Bible’s hope of renewal.
In the beginning.
The opening of Genesis directs our attention first to God. The earth is described as unformed and empty, darkness lies over the deep, and God speaks. Light appears; God sees that it is good and distinguishes it from darkness. Read the sequence slowly: speech, response, evaluation and naming. The chapter is a theological account of the world’s dependence on its Creator. Begin by noticing what the text actually says before bringing later questions to it.
Start with the sentence
This opening names the Creator. It does not provide a date on a modern calendar or explain every physical process.
Room for a world.
God separates the waters and gathers them so that dry land appears. The account presents an ordered world in which life can flourish. Words such as firmament, expanse and sky reflect translation choices; reading carefully means noticing those choices without pretending they are identical modern technical terms. Follow the actions of separating, gathering and naming. The same God who commands also evaluates what has appeared as good.
Ancient wording, careful reading
The passage describes a separation of waters. It should be read in its literary setting before assigning modern scientific definitions to individual words.
A fruitful earth.
Dry land is not left bare. The earth brings forth vegetation, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees. The repeated reference to seed turns our attention toward continuing fruitfulness. The account calls this good before human beings appear. Creation’s value is therefore not introduced only when people can use it. Let the ordinary abundance of a plant, a seed and a piece of fruit slow down an overly familiar reading.
Keep the categories in context
The phrase about kinds describes the account’s pattern of fruitfulness. It does not itself define modern biological classification systems.
Signs and seasons.
The lights have functions: they illuminate the earth, distinguish day and night, and mark seasons, days and years. The greater and lesser lights are described through their service in creation rather than introduced as rival divine powers. The stars appear in the same account of God’s making. Read the text’s emphasis on purpose and order. Its praise of the Creator can give a different character to the way we experience passing time.
Distinguish description and debate
Christians interpret the creation days in different ways. This study asks what the narrative states and does not make a quiz answer depend on settling that debate.
Waters full of life.
The scene fills with movement: living creatures in the waters and birds above the earth. God’s evaluation of goodness is followed by a blessing of fruitfulness. The text does more than catalogue life; it describes life flourishing under God’s blessing. Notice the creatures’ place in the story before humanity’s appearance. This can encourage wonder without requiring us to turn a study observation into an answer to every question about nature.
Wonder without invention
The text names creatures and blessing but does not narrate every animal’s experience. Avoid adding details as though they were quoted Scripture.
In God’s image.
Land animals appear, and then the account gives particular attention to humankind. Male and female are both included in the statement about God’s image. The blessing and commission are addressed to them together. The text connects human distinctiveness with responsibility in the world, rather than with permission to treat others as disposable. Consider how dignity belongs to human beings before achievements, usefulness or social standing are mentioned.
Responsibility is not licence
Dominion names a human vocation in God’s good world. Reading it as permission for careless destruction ignores the larger account of gift and care.
Very good.
The chapter’s final movement names food as a gift, extends provision to living creatures, and surveys everything God has made. The evaluation is now very good. The account invites us to see the whole together: a world of relationships, provision and life. Gratitude does not mean ignoring the brokenness experienced now. It means learning to recognise goodness and to distinguish the creation account’s opening vision from later scenes of damage and loss.
A gift before a demand
The food is described as given. Personal practices of gratitude and stewardship are responses drawn from the passage, not additional quotations from it.
A blessed seventh day.
The creation sequence reaches completion and rest. God blesses the seventh day and sets it apart. The movement from making to ceasing gives the account a destination beyond endless production. The verb for resting can describe ceasing from work; the passage does not say that God has become physically exhausted. Read the seventh day as part of the story’s shape, then consider how limits, worship and rest might challenge a life measured only by output.
Rest and exhaustion are different claims
The passage describes ceasing from creative work. It does not state that God needs recovery from physical weakness.
Dust, breath and a garden.
Genesis turns toward a close view of human life. The man is formed from dust, receives the breath of life and is placed in a garden. The scene includes abundance, work and a boundary. Cultivating and keeping are part of the picture before the later account of human disobedience. Dependence and responsibility belong together: the human being receives life and a place to live, then is entrusted with care within it.
Read the generous permission too
The command includes permission to eat freely before naming one prohibition. Keep both parts together.
Not alone.
The account’s first statement that something is not good concerns the man being alone. The narrative moves through the naming of animals toward the creation of the woman and the recognition of shared humanity. The language of bone and flesh expresses kinship, while the concluding statement describes marriage. Read attentively without turning the passage into a judgment on the worth of unmarried people. The wider human need for relationship can be honoured in many forms of faithful community.
Do not turn description into a personal verdict
This marriage passage does not say that unmarried people lack dignity or cannot belong to a community.
Creation becomes praise.
The Psalms return to creation as a reason for wonder and worship. This passage names the diversity of God’s works, the sea’s life and the dependence of creatures on provision. Breath, life and renewal belong to its poetry. Read the imagery as poetry that directs attention and praise, rather than as a detached inventory. The Creator’s care is described through the continued life of the world as well as its beginning.
Let poetry remain poetry
The psalm’s imagery is a language of worship. Its theological claims need not be flattened into a modern laboratory description.
All things new.
The Bible’s final vision speaks of a new heaven and a new earth, God dwelling with his people, and the end of tears and death. Creation’s opening goodness is joined here to a hope of renewal. This is a visionary promise rather than a timetable we can control. Keep the scene’s emphasis on God’s presence and action. Christian hope can deepen care for the world and compassion for suffering while refusing to pretend that grief has already disappeared.
Promise, not a personal timetable
The passage does not give a date for a reader’s particular hardship to end. Its hope rests on God’s action.
In the beginning.
Start with the sentence.
The opening of Genesis directs our attention first to God. The earth is described as unformed and empty, darkness lies over the deep, and God speaks. Light appears; God sees that it is good and distinguishes it from darkness. Read the sequence slowly: speech, response, evaluation and naming. The chapter is a theological account of the world’s dependence on its Creator. Begin by noticing what the text actually says before bringing later questions to it.
A repeated pattern
Notice the movement from God’s speech to what happens. Later scenes will repeat and develop this pattern.
Genesis 1:3-5
Read, then respond
Read the five verses aloud and list the actions attributed to God.
Genesis 1:1-5
Start with the sentence
This opening names the Creator. It does not provide a date on a modern calendar or explain every physical process.
Genesis 1:1-5
Room for a world.
Ancient wording, careful reading.
God separates the waters and gathers them so that dry land appears. The account presents an ordered world in which life can flourish. Words such as firmament, expanse and sky reflect translation choices; reading carefully means noticing those choices without pretending they are identical modern technical terms. Follow the actions of separating, gathering and naming. The same God who commands also evaluates what has appeared as good.
Naming and distinction
The names Earth and Seas belong to the account’s pattern of ordered distinctions. Watch how the narrator repeats God’s evaluation.
Genesis 1:10
Read, then respond
Sketch the distinctions the passage makes and label them using its own words.
Genesis 1:6-10
Ancient wording, careful reading
The passage describes a separation of waters. It should be read in its literary setting before assigning modern scientific definitions to individual words.
Genesis 1:6-10
A fruitful earth.
Keep the categories in context.
Dry land is not left bare. The earth brings forth vegetation, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees. The repeated reference to seed turns our attention toward continuing fruitfulness. The account calls this good before human beings appear. Creation’s value is therefore not introduced only when people can use it. Let the ordinary abundance of a plant, a seed and a piece of fruit slow down an overly familiar reading.
Good before our use
The narrator records the goodness of vegetation before the later commission to humanity. Receive that order as part of the account.
Genesis 1:12
Read, then respond
Notice one plant or meal today and write a specific sentence of thanks.
Genesis 1:11-13
Keep the categories in context
The phrase about kinds describes the account’s pattern of fruitfulness. It does not itself define modern biological classification systems.
Genesis 1:11-13
Signs and seasons.
Distinguish description and debate.
The lights have functions: they illuminate the earth, distinguish day and night, and mark seasons, days and years. The greater and lesser lights are described through their service in creation rather than introduced as rival divine powers. The stars appear in the same account of God’s making. Read the text’s emphasis on purpose and order. Its praise of the Creator can give a different character to the way we experience passing time.
The lights serve
Their roles are described in relation to the earth. Notice each purpose named, rather than reducing the scene to a list of objects.
Genesis 1:14-18
Read, then respond
Observe a sunrise, sunset or night sky and revisit the purposes listed in the passage.
Genesis 1:14-19
Distinguish description and debate
Christians interpret the creation days in different ways. This study asks what the narrative states and does not make a quiz answer depend on settling that debate.
Genesis 1:14-19
Waters full of life.
Wonder without invention.
The scene fills with movement: living creatures in the waters and birds above the earth. God’s evaluation of goodness is followed by a blessing of fruitfulness. The text does more than catalogue life; it describes life flourishing under God’s blessing. Notice the creatures’ place in the story before humanity’s appearance. This can encourage wonder without requiring us to turn a study observation into an answer to every question about nature.
Blessing reaches creatures
The blessing is spoken before humanity receives its commission. Pay attention to that breadth of divine care.
Genesis 1:22
Read, then respond
Observe one living creature without disturbing it and describe what you notice.
Genesis 1:20-23
Wonder without invention
The text names creatures and blessing but does not narrate every animal’s experience. Avoid adding details as though they were quoted Scripture.
Genesis 1:20-23
In God’s image.
Responsibility is not licence.
Land animals appear, and then the account gives particular attention to humankind. Male and female are both included in the statement about God’s image. The blessing and commission are addressed to them together. The text connects human distinctiveness with responsibility in the world, rather than with permission to treat others as disposable. Consider how dignity belongs to human beings before achievements, usefulness or social standing are mentioned.
A shared dignity
The verse repeats God’s creative action while explicitly including male and female. Begin applications with this shared status.
Genesis 1:27
Read, then respond
Choose one ordinary interaction in which to practise attention and respect.
Genesis 1:24-28
Responsibility is not licence
Dominion names a human vocation in God’s good world. Reading it as permission for careless destruction ignores the larger account of gift and care.
Genesis 1:24-28
Very good.
A gift before a demand.
The chapter’s final movement names food as a gift, extends provision to living creatures, and surveys everything God has made. The evaluation is now very good. The account invites us to see the whole together: a world of relationships, provision and life. Gratitude does not mean ignoring the brokenness experienced now. It means learning to recognise goodness and to distinguish the creation account’s opening vision from later scenes of damage and loss.
Look at the whole
The final evaluation surveys everything made. Compare that wider view with the repeated evaluations of earlier scenes.
Genesis 1:31
Read, then respond
List three concrete provisions and one way to use them with care.
Genesis 1:29-31
A gift before a demand
The food is described as given. Personal practices of gratitude and stewardship are responses drawn from the passage, not additional quotations from it.
Genesis 1:29-31
A blessed seventh day.
Rest and exhaustion are different claims.
The creation sequence reaches completion and rest. God blesses the seventh day and sets it apart. The movement from making to ceasing gives the account a destination beyond endless production. The verb for resting can describe ceasing from work; the passage does not say that God has become physically exhausted. Read the seventh day as part of the story’s shape, then consider how limits, worship and rest might challenge a life measured only by output.
Completion matters
Rest follows the completion of the work. Notice how the repeated language of work and completion frames the blessing.
Genesis 2:1-3
Read, then respond
Plan a realistic moment to cease an ordinary task and give thanks.
Genesis 2:1-3
Rest and exhaustion are different claims
The passage describes ceasing from creative work. It does not state that God needs recovery from physical weakness.
Genesis 2:1-3
Dust, breath and a garden.
Read the generous permission too.
Genesis turns toward a close view of human life. The man is formed from dust, receives the breath of life and is placed in a garden. The scene includes abundance, work and a boundary. Cultivating and keeping are part of the picture before the later account of human disobedience. Dependence and responsibility belong together: the human being receives life and a place to live, then is entrusted with care within it.
Work within a gift
The garden is received before its care is assigned. Work here is meaningful responsibility within provision.
Genesis 2:8-15
Read, then respond
Choose one small act of care for a place entrusted to you.
Genesis 2:7-17
Read the generous permission too
The command includes permission to eat freely before naming one prohibition. Keep both parts together.
Genesis 2:7-17
Not alone.
Do not turn description into a personal verdict.
The account’s first statement that something is not good concerns the man being alone. The narrative moves through the naming of animals toward the creation of the woman and the recognition of shared humanity. The language of bone and flesh expresses kinship, while the concluding statement describes marriage. Read attentively without turning the passage into a judgment on the worth of unmarried people. The wider human need for relationship can be honoured in many forms of faithful community.
Recognition rather than isolation
The man’s words acknowledge shared flesh and bone. Notice relationship and recognition alongside the earlier task of naming.
Genesis 2:23-24
Read, then respond
Offer attentive companionship to someone without treating their circumstances as a problem to solve.
Genesis 2:18-25
Do not turn description into a personal verdict
This marriage passage does not say that unmarried people lack dignity or cannot belong to a community.
Genesis 2:18-25
Creation becomes praise.
Let poetry remain poetry.
The Psalms return to creation as a reason for wonder and worship. This passage names the diversity of God’s works, the sea’s life and the dependence of creatures on provision. Breath, life and renewal belong to its poetry. Read the imagery as poetry that directs attention and praise, rather than as a detached inventory. The Creator’s care is described through the continued life of the world as well as its beginning.
Dependence is ongoing
Waiting, receiving and gathering describe continuing provision. The psalm’s gaze is on a living world dependent on God.
Psalm 104:27-30
Read, then respond
Write a brief prayer of praise using one concrete detail from the passage.
Psalm 104:24-30
Let poetry remain poetry
The psalm’s imagery is a language of worship. Its theological claims need not be flattened into a modern laboratory description.
Psalm 104:24-30
All things new.
Promise, not a personal timetable.
The Bible’s final vision speaks of a new heaven and a new earth, God dwelling with his people, and the end of tears and death. Creation’s opening goodness is joined here to a hope of renewal. This is a visionary promise rather than a timetable we can control. Keep the scene’s emphasis on God’s presence and action. Christian hope can deepen care for the world and compassion for suffering while refusing to pretend that grief has already disappeared.
Hope attends to sorrow
The vision includes tears, death and pain in its promise of renewal. These are real burdens, not failures of positive thinking.
Revelation 21:4
Read, then respond
Return to Genesis 1:1 and write one connection between creation, dependence and hope.
Revelation 21:1-5
Promise, not a personal timetable
The passage does not give a date for a reader’s particular hardship to end. Its hope rests on God’s action.
Revelation 21:1-5
Create
בָּרָא
Transliteration: bara
Strong’s number: H1254
In Genesis 1:1 this verb describes God’s creating. Its lexical entry includes creating and shaping; the sentence and wider context determine the claim being made. A gloss alone does not settle every question about the process.
Good
טוֹב
Transliteration: tov
Strong’s number: H2896
This word can express goodness, pleasantness or what is beneficial. Genesis repeatedly uses it in God’s evaluation of creation. Read the final “very good” alongside the earlier evaluations.
Image
צֶלֶם
Transliteration: tselem
Strong’s number: H6754
The word denotes an image or likeness. Genesis applies it to humankind in relation to God. The passage’s claim about human identity comes from that relationship and context, not from importing every use of the word elsewhere.
Cease or rest
שָׁבַת
Transliteration: shabat
Strong’s number: H7673
This verb can mean cease, desist or rest. In Genesis 2 it is connected with completed work. The verb itself does not state that God is physically exhausted.
Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1-5
1 In 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 said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw 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.
Genesis 1:10
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.
Genesis 1:11
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11-13
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:12
12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Genesis 1:13
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:14
14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:14-18
14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, 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 so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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.
Genesis 1:14-19
14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, 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 so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:16
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
Genesis 1:19
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20-21
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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 saw that [it was] good.
Genesis 1:20-23
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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 saw that [it was] good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:22
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis 1:23
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:24-28
24 ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28
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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:29-31
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:3
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:3-5
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw 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.
Genesis 1:31
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:5
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:6
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:6-10
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
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.
Genesis 1:9
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
Genesis 2:1
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Genesis 2:1-3
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:15
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:17
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:18
18 ¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:18-25
18 ¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:19-20
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:2
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 2:23
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis 2:23-24
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:3
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:7
7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7-17
7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward 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 sight, and good for food; the tree of life also 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] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:8-15
8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward 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 sight, and good for food; the tree of life also 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] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Psalm 104:24
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Psalm 104:24-30
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25 [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.
28 [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalm 104:27
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.
Psalm 104:27-30
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.
28 [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalm 104:30
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Revelation 21:1
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:1-5
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Revelation 21:3
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
Revelation 21:4
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21:5
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
King James Version
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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World English Bible
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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American Standard Version
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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Young’s Literal Translation
1 In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth —
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Darby Translation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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