Paul W. Esposito - Logos Bible (byzantine majority text + greek septuagint)

1. by Paul W. Esposito

1. Table of Contents

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water; and it was so. And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day. And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was gathered into its places, and the dry land appeared. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering of the waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass-bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth the herb of grass-bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth; and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. And let them be for light in the firmament of the heavens, so as to shine upon the earth; and it was so. 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. And God set them in the firmament of the heavens, so as to shine upon the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of the heavens; and it was so. And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind; and God saw that they were good. And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, cattle and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind; and it was so. And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good. And God said, Let Us make man according to Our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that move upon the earth. And God made man, according to the image of God He made him, male and female He made them. And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas, and the birds of the sky, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that move on the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given to you every plant-yielding seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; to you it shall be for food. And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the sky, and to every reptile that creeps on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so. And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole host of them. And God finished on the sixth day His works which He made, and He ceased on the seventh day from all His works which He made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He ceased from all His works which God began to do.

This is the book of the generations of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate it. But there rose up a fountain out of the earth, and it watered the whole face of the earth. And God formed the man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and He placed the man there whom He had formed. And God caused to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And a river proceeded out of Eden to water the garden, and it divided itself there into four heads. The name of the one is Pishon, this is that which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald. And the name of the second river is Gihon, this is that which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia. And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man whom He had formed, and placed him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and keep it. And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying, Of every tree which is in the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evilof it you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let Us make for him a helper suitable to him. And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and He brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was its name. And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to himself. And God brought a deep sleep upon Adam, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the beasts on the earth, which the Lord God had made. And the serpent said to the woman, Has God truly said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?