Genesis 1

1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.Cross-references: Ex 20:11 · Ex 31:18 · 1Chr 16:26 · Neh 9:6 · Job 26:13 · Job 38:4 · +56 more

2The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.Cross-references: Job 26:7 · Job 26:14 · Ps 33:6 · Ps 104:30 · Isa 40:12 · Isa 45:18 · +2 more

3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.Cross-references: Job 36:30 · Job 38:19 · Ps 33:6 · Ps 33:9 · Ps 97:11 · Ps 104:2 · +15 more

4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.Cross-references: Gen 1:10 · Gen 1:12 · Gen 1:18 · Gen 1:25 · Gen 1:31 · Eccl 2:13 · +1 more

5God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.Cross-references: Gen 1:8 · Gen 1:13 · Gen 1:19 · Gen 1:23 · Gen 1:31 · Gen 8:22 · +8 more

6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”Cross-references: Gen 1:14 · Gen 1:20 · Gen 7:11 · Job 26:7 · Job 26:13 · Job 37:11 · +14 more

7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.Cross-references: Gen 1:9 · Gen 1:11 · Gen 1:15 · Gen 1:24 · Job 26:8 · Job 38:8 · +5 more

8God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.Cross-references: Gen 1:5 · Gen 1:10 · Gen 1:13 · Gen 1:19 · Gen 1:23 · Gen 1:31 · +1 more

9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.Cross-references: Job 26:7 · Job 26:10 · Job 38:8 · Ps 24:1 · Ps 33:7 · Ps 95:5 · +9 more

10God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.Cross-references: Gen 1:4 · Deut 32:4 · Ps 104:31

11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.Cross-references: Gen 1:29 · Gen 2:5 · Gen 2:9 · Gen 2:16 · Job 28:5 · Ps 1:3 · +11 more

12The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.Cross-references: Isa 55:10 · Isa 61:11 · Matt 13:24 · Mark 4:28 · Luke 6:44 · 2Cor 9:10 · +1 more

13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;Cross-references: Gen 8:22 · Gen 9:13 · Deut 4:19 · Job 3:9 · Job 25:3 · Job 25:5 · +34 more

15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Josh 10:12 · Job 31:26 · Job 38:7 · Ps 8:3 · Ps 19:6 · +14 more

17God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,Cross-references: Gen 9:13 · Job 38:12 · Ps 8:1 · Ps 8:3 · Acts 13:47

18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.Cross-references: Ps 19:6 · Jer 31:35

19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”Cross-references: Gen 1:7 · Gen 1:14 · Gen 1:22 · Gen 1:30 · Gen 2:19 · Gen 8:17 · +5 more

21God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.Cross-references: Gen 1:18 · Gen 1:25 · Gen 1:31 · Gen 6:20 · Gen 7:14 · Gen 8:17 · +11 more

22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 8:17 · Gen 9:1 · Gen 30:27 · Gen 30:30 · Gen 35:11 · +8 more

23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.Cross-references: Gen 6:20 · Gen 7:14 · Gen 8:19 · Job 38:39 · Job 39:1 · Job 39:5 · +7 more

25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.Cross-references: Gen 2:19 · Job 12:8 · Job 26:13 · Jer 27:5

26God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”Cross-references: Gen 3:22 · Gen 5:1 · Gen 9:2 · Gen 9:6 · Gen 11:7 · Job 5:23 · +24 more

27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.Cross-references: Gen 2:18 · Gen 2:21 · Gen 5:1 · Ps 139:14 · Isa 43:7 · Mal 2:15 · +7 more

28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Cross-references: Gen 1:22 · Gen 8:17 · Gen 9:1 · Gen 9:7 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 17:20 · +16 more

29God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.Cross-references: Gen 2:16 · Gen 9:3 · Job 36:31 · Ps 24:1 · Ps 104:14 · Ps 104:27 · +14 more

30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.Cross-references: Gen 9:3 · Job 38:39 · Job 39:4 · Job 39:8 · Job 39:30 · Job 40:15 · +4 more

31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.Cross-references: Gen 1:5 · Gen 1:8 · Gen 1:13 · Gen 1:19 · Gen 1:23 · Gen 2:2 · +7 more