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Chapter XI.—The Six Days’ Work Described.
Now, the beginning of the creation is light;
since light manifests the things that are created. Wherefore it is
said: “And God said, Let light be,572
| 572 The words, “and light was; and God saw the
light, that it was good,” are omitted in the two best mss. and in some editions; but
they seem to be necessary, and to have fallen out by the mistake of
transcribers. | and light was; and God saw the light, that it
was good,” manifestly made good for man. “And God divided the
light from the darkness; and God called the light Day, and the darkness
He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And
God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters: and it was so. And God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from
the waters which were above the firmament. And God called the firmament
Heaven: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning
were the second day. And God said, Let the water under the heaven be
gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And
the waters were gathered together into their places, and the dry land
appeared. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together
of the waters He called Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed after his kind
and in his likeness, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, in his likeness: and it was so. And the earth
brought forth grass, the herb yielding seed after his kind, and the
fruit-tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind, on
the earth: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning
were the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven, to give light on earth, to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years;
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light
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 heaven to give
light upon the earth, 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.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said,
Let the waters bring forth the creeping things that have life, and fowl
flying over the earth in the firmament of
heaven: and it was so. And God created
great whales, and every living creature that creepeth, which the waters
brought forth after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind:
and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Increase
and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea, and let fowl multiply in
the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 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. And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind,
and the cattle after their kind, and all the creeping things of the
earth. 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 heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man:
in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And
God blessed them, saying, 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 heaven, and over all cattle, and over all the earth,
and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth. 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, and to all the beasts of the
earth, and to all the fowls of heaven, and to every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, which has in it the breath of life; every green
herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw everything that He had made,
and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day. And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. And on the sixth day God finished His works which He made,
and rested on the seventh day from all His works which He made. And God
blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because in it He rested from
all His works which God began to create.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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