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118    <div id="root"><article class="passage"><h1>Genesis 1</h1><ol><li id="v1"><strong>1</strong> In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.</li><li id="v2"><strong>2</strong> Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, while the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.</li><li id="v3"><strong>3</strong> And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.</li><li id="v4"><strong>4</strong> And God saw the light, that it was good; and God separated between the light and the darkness.</li><li id="v5"><strong>5</strong> And God called the light "Day," and the darkness he called "Night." And there was evening and there was morning—day one.</li><li id="v6"><strong>6</strong> And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters."</li><li id="v7"><strong>7</strong> And God made the expanse, and he separated the waters that were beneath the exp

118anse from the waters that were above the expanse; and it was so.</li><li id="v8"><strong>8</strong> And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.</li><li id="v9"><strong>9</strong> And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.</li><li id="v10"><strong>10</strong> And God called the dry land "Earth," and the gathering of the waters he called "Seas." And God saw that it was good.</li><li id="v11"><strong>11</strong> And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, fruit trees making fruit according to their kind, in which is their seed, upon the earth." And it was so.</li><li id="v12"><strong>12</strong> And the earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.</li><li id="v13"><strong>13</strong> And there was evening, and there was morning, a third day.</li><li id="v14"><strong>14</strong> And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to separate between the day and the night; and let them serve as signs and for seasons, and for days and years."</li><li id="v15"><strong>15</strong> and let them be as lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so.</li><li id="v16"><strong>16</strong> And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.</li><li id="v17"><strong>17</strong> And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,</li><li id="v18"><strong>18</strong> and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.</li><li id="v19"><strong>19</strong> And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.</li><li id="v20"><strong>20</strong> And God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the expanse of the heavens."</li><li id="v21"><strong>21</strong> And God created the great sea-monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.</li><li id="v22"><strong>22</strong> And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."</li><li id="v23"><strong>23</strong> And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.</li><li id="v24"><strong>24</strong> And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: livestock, creeping things, and wild animals of the earth according to their kind." And it was so.</li><li id="v25"><strong>25</strong> And God made the wild animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.</li><li id="v26"><strong>26</strong> And God said, "Let us make humankind 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 every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."</li><li id="v27"><strong>27</strong> And God created the man in his image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.</li><li id="v28"><strong>28</strong> 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 sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth."</li><li id="v29"><strong>29</strong> And God said, "Behold, I have given to you every seed-bearing plant that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree that has in it tree-fruit bearing seed; to you it shall be for food."</li><li id="v30"><strong>30</strong> And to every living creature of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so.</li><li id="v31"><strong>31</strong> And God saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.</li></ol><p><a href="/">Bible Translation Project</a> — AI translations of the oldest Bibles, compared across the earliest surviving manuscripts.</p></article></div>
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