Study Desk

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;

And God called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

And God said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.

And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a soul of life; and let the birds fly over the earth, on the face of the expanse of the heavens.

And God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.

And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.

And to every beast of the earth, and to all birds of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul, every green plant is for food. And it was so.

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that Jehovah God was making earth and heavens.

And Jehovah God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the heavens out of the ground. And He brought them to the man, to see what he would call it. And all which the man might call it, each living soul, that was its name.

And the man called names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every animal of the field. But no helper suited to him was found for a man.

And Jehovah said, I will wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the earth, from man to beast, to the creeping thing and to the birds of the heavens; for I repent that I made them.

And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.

And take of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep alive seed on the face of the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great deep were risen, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

And the waters prevailed, exceedingly violent on the earth, and all the high mountains under the heavens were covered.

And every living thing which was on the face of the earth was wiped away, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowl of the heavens. And they were wiped off from the earth,and only Noah was left, and those who werewith him in the ark.