Genesis 1:20-2:7

New King James Version

²⁰ Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living ^[a]creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the ^[b]firmament of the heavens.” ²¹ So ^(A)God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, ^(B)“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ²³ So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴ Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, ^(C)“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; ^(D)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over ^[c]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man ^(E)in His own image; in the image of God He created him; ^(F)male and female He created them. ²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ^(G)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and ^(H)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that ^[d]moves on the earth.”

²⁹ And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; ^(I)to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ Also, to ^(J)every beast of the earth, to every ^(K)bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is ^[e]life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. ³¹ Then ^(L)God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The Garden of Eden

2 Thus the heavens and the earth, and ^(M)all the host of them, were finished. ^2 (N)And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. ³ Then God ^(O)blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

^4 (P)This is the ^[f]history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, ⁵ before any ^(Q)plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not ^(R)caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man ^(S)to till the ground; ⁶ but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷ And the Lord God formed man of the ^(T)dust of the ground, and ^(U)breathed into his ^(V)nostrils the breath of life; and ^(W)man became a living being.