The Creation of the World

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a

formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from

God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

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 dome in the midst

of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." So God made the

dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above