1B'resheet Elohim bara' ·In the beginning of the beginning, God created from nothingness· את the heavens את and the earth.

2Earth was tohu v'bohu ·void and chaos·. ⁰Darkness was on the surface of the deep and Ruach Elohim ·Spirit, Breath of God· was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3¹God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ²

4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

5God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night”. ³There was evening and there was morning, the first yom ·period of time, day·. ⁴

6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so·.

8God called the expanse “shamayim ·sky, heavens·”. ⁵There was evening and there was morning, a second yom ·period of time, day·.

9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

10God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “sea”. God saw that it was good.

11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. ⁶

13There was evening and there was morning, a third yom ·period of time, day·. (A:2)

14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons and appointed times, days, and years;

15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

17God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. ⁷

19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth 'yom ·period of time, day·.

20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”

21God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ⁸

23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth 'yom ·period of time, day·. (A:3)

24God said, “Let the earth produce nefesh chai ·soul living· creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. ⁹God saw that it was good.

26God said, “Let us make a 'adam ·human· in our image, after our likeness: and let them have authority ¹⁰over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27God created man in his own likeness. ¹¹In God’s image he created him; zachar ·male· and n'keivah ·female· ¹²he created them.

28¹³God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and bring it into subjection, subdue it. Have authority over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so. ¹⁴

31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was m'ohd tov ·exceedingly good·. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth 'yom ·period of time, day·.