1. In the beginning Elohim created hashomayim (the heavens, Himel) and haaretz (the earth).
2. And the earth was tohu vavohu (without form, and void); and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Ruach Elohim was hovering upon the face of the waters.
3. And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light [Tehillim 33:6,9].
4. And Elohim saw the light, that it was tov (good); and Elohim divided the ohr (light) from the choshech (darkness).
5. And Elohim called the light Yom (Day), and the darkness He called Lailah (Night). And the erev (evening) and the boker (morning) were Yom Echad (Day One, the First Day, Mk 16:2).
6. And Elohim said, Let there be a raki'a (expanse, dome, firmament) in the midst of the mayim (waters), and let it divide the mayim from the mayim.
7. And Elohim made the raki'a, and divided the waters under the raki'a from the waters which were above the raki'a; and it was so.