Daily
Feast
(First
Day)
Genesis 1:1 – 4:6
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
The First Book of Moses
Genesis
1
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens
and the earth. 2 The 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.
3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was
light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that
it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness
he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the
middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters
which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and
it was so. 8 God called the expanse
“sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be
gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
10 God called the dry land “earth”, and
the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was
good. 11 God 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. 12 The 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. 13
There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 God 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; 15 and let
them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and
it was so. 16 God 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. 17 God
set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a
fourth day.
20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
21 God 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.
22 God blessed them, saying, “Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply
on the earth.” 23 There was evening and
there was morning, a fifth day.
24 God 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. 25
God 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.
26 God 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.” 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s
image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God 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.” 29 God 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. 30 To 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.
31 God saw everything that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
2
1 The heavens, the earth, and all their vast
array were finished. 2 On the seventh
day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had done. 3
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it
from all his work of creation which he had done.
4 This is the history of the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh* God
made the earth and the heavens. 5 No
plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet
sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not
a man to till the ground, 6 but a mist
went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. 8 Yahweh God planted a
garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree
to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of
life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. 10 A river went out of Eden to
water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four
rivers. 11 The name of the first is
Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 and the gold of that land is good.
Bdellium† and onyx stone are also there. 13
The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows
through the whole land of Cush. 14 The
name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of
Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put
him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. 16 Yahweh God commanded
the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but you
shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day
that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man
to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to‡ him.” 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every
animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to
see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature
became its name. 20 The man gave names
to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the
field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep
sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in
its place. 22 Yahweh God made a woman
from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
23 The man said, “This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken
out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man will
leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be
one flesh. 25 The man and his wife were
both naked, and they were not ashamed.
3
1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any
animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God
really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat
fruit from the trees of the garden, 3
but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God
has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t
really die, 5 for God knows that in the
day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be
desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave
some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew
that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for
themselves. 8 They heard Yahweh God’s
voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to
him, “Where are you?”
10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the
garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be
with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you
done?”
The
woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 Yahweh God said to the serpent,
“Because
you have done this,
you
are cursed above all livestock,
and
above every animal of the field.
You
shall go on your belly
and
you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I
will put hostility between you and the woman,
and
between your offspring and her offspring.
He
will bruise your head,
and
you will bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I
will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
You
will bear children in pain.
Your
desire will be for your husband,
and
he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said,
“Because
you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and
have eaten from the tree,
about
which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’
the
ground is cursed for your sake.
You
will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and
you will eat the herb of the field.
19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face
until you return to the ground,
for
you were taken out of it.
For
you are dust,
and
you shall return to dust.”
20 The man called his wife Eve because she would
be the mother of all the living. 21
Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and
clothed them.
22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become
like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and
also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—” 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the
garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed
cherubim* at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
4
1 The man knew* Eve his wife. She conceived,†
and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s
brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 As time passed, Cain brought an
offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of
his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, 5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering.
Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. 6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why
has the expression of your face fallen?
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