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JANUARY 1
firmament of the heavens to divide the day
January 1 from the night; and let them be for signs and
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seasons, and for days and years; and let them
be for lights in the firmament of the heavens
to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:1–2:25
16 Then God made two great lights: the greater
In the beginning God created the heavens light to rule the day, and the lesser light to
1 and the earth. The earth was without form, rule the night. He made the stars also. God
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and void; and darkness was on the face of the set them in the firmament of the heavens to
deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over give light on the earth, and to rule over the
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the face of the waters. day and over the night, and to divide the light
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and from the darkness. And God saw that it was
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there was light. And God saw the light, that it good. So the evening and the morning were
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was good; and God divided the light from the the fourth day.
darkness. God called the light Day, and the 20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound
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darkness He called Night. So the evening and with an abundance of living creatures, and let
the morning were the first day. birds fly above the earth across the face of the
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firmament of the heavens.” So God created
great sea creatures and every living thing that
moves, with which the waters abounded,
according to their kind, and every winged bird
1:5 first day. God completed the creation in 7
days,which constituted a complete week.One according to its kind. And God saw that it was
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“day”can refer to: 1) the light portion of a 24- good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be
hour period (1:5,14); an extended period of fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the
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time (2:4); or 2) the whole 24-hour period seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” So
while the earth completes a full rotation on its the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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axis. Each “day” in Genesis refers to a 24-hour
period.The cycle of light and dark means that the living creature according to its kind: cattle
the earth was rotating on its axis,receiving light and creeping thing and beast of the earth,
from a source on one side of the earth, even each according to its kind”; and it was so.
though the sun was not yet created (v.16). 25 And God made the beast of the earth accord-
ing to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and
everything that creeps on the earth according
Then God said, “Let there be a firmament to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our
waters from the waters.” Thus God made the image, according to Our likeness; let them have
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firmament, and divided the waters which were dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
under the firmament from the waters which of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth
were above the firmament; and it was so. And and over every creeping thing that creeps on
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God called the firmament Heaven. So the the earth.” So God created man in His own
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evening and the morning were the second day. image; in the image of God He created him;
Then God said, “Let the waters under the
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heavens be gathered together into one place,
and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth, and the 1:26 Us…Our. The first clear reference to the
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gathering together of the waters He called three-person nature of God,as the Father,Son,
Seas. And God saw that it was good. and the Holy Spirit.This unique relationship is
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth called the triunity of God. Even the very name
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grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit of God,Elohim (1:1),is a plural form of El.man.
tree that yields fruit according to its kind, The masterpiece of creation, a human being,
whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was made in God’s image to rule creation.Our
was so. And the earth brought forth grass, image. This phrase defined man’s unique rela-
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the herb that yields seed according to its kind, tion to God and set him apart from the ani-
and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in mals. He was like God in that he could reason
itself according to its kind. And God saw that and had intellect, will, and emotion. When he
it was good. So the evening and the morning was first created, he was like God because he
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were the third day. was good and sinless.
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the
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