GENESIS 1 — KING JAMES VERSION 34 314
Genesis 1
31 verses
Genesis 1 opens the entire Bible with a majestic declaration: the God of Israel is the sole Creator of everything that exists. Over six days, God speaks the universe into being — light, sky, land, seas, vegetation, stars, creatures, and finally humanity — and each act is met with His verdict: it is good. The repeated rhythm of evening and morning frames creation as ordered, purposeful, and personal. The pinnacle comes in verses 26–28, where God creates human beings in His own image, male and female, granting them dignity and the responsibility to steward the earth. This chapter confronts every form of idol worship by declaring that what others worshipped — the sun, moon, and sea — are merely God's creations. Colossians 1:16 and John 1:3 confirm that this same creative work finds its fullness in Christ. As you read, consider what it means to bear the image of a God who calls His creation very good.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
What strikes me most is the absolute confidence of this verse. No argument, no philosophical defence — just a bare, maje...
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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Tohu vavohu — formless and empty. The earth was without shape and without content, and darkness covered the surface of t...
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And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Light before the sun — this always stops me when I read it slowly. God's first creative word brings light into existence...
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. He doesn't eliminate the darkness in this...
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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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The first day ends with the phrase: there was evening, and there was morning — the first day. In the Jewish reckoning of...
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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And God said, let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so. What strik...
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And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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Let the land produce vegetation — seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it according to their vario...
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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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God made the lights in the sky for signs and for seasons, for days and for years — and the calendar itself is therefore ...
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. Notice what is...
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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.
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And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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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.
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And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth. And God blessed them and told them to be fr...
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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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The first blessing spoken in the entire Bible is not spoken to a human being. It is spoken to fish and birds on the fift...
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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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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.
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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Let us make man in our image — the plural has fascinated theologians for centuries. Whether it points forward to the Tri...
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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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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So God created human beings in His own image — in the image of God He created them, male and female He created them. Thi...
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over every living creature — this is one of th...
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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 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 air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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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.
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And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
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After declaring everything very good at the end of the sixth day, God rests on the seventh. The Sabbath is one of the mo...
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And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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