The Scriptures 1998

Genesis 1:16-28 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

16. And Elohim made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.

17. And Elohim set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

18. and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.

19. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fourth day.

20. And Elohim said, “Let the waters teem with shoals of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.”

21. And Elohim created great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

22. And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

23. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fifth day.

24. And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: livestock and creeping creatures and beasts of the earth, according to its kind.” And it came to be so.

25. And Elohim made the beast of the earth according to its kind, livestock according to its kind, and all that creep on the earth according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

26. And Elohim said, “Let Us make man 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 livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.”

27. And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them.

28. And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”