Picture book of the story of creation
by Susan Stanek
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that
the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God
called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there
was evening, and there was morning - the first day.
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water
(cloud)
from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the
expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the
expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning - the
second day.
And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let
dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground
"land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it
was good.
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation:
seed-bearing plants and trees on land that bear fruit with seed in it,
according to their various kinds."
And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed
according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according
to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was
evening, and there was morning - the third day.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to
separate day from night,
and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them
be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And
it was so.
God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the
lesser light to govern the night. He also made the
stars.
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning - the fourth day.
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the
great creatures of the se and every living and moving thing with which the
water teems, according to their dinks, and every winged bird according to
its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and
said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas,
and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and
there was morning - the fifth day.
And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their
kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild
animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made
the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their
kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their
kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and lit them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
to be continued