King James Version

Genesis 1

Genesis in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

Retold in Jubilees 2 .

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Translation Note
The first Hebrew word is בְּרֵאשִׁית, bereshit, Strong’s H7225, “in the beginning.” The verb בָּרָא is “create,” and the subject is אֱלֹהִים, elohim, H430. Strong’s defines that word as “gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God.”
The 1917 Jewish Publication Society keeps “God created.” The Christian reading is that this God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and that the Son is the one through whom all things were made. Jesus is God. John 1:1–3 says the Word was God and that all things were made by him.
King James Version. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English. “In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.”
Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek (1851). ἘΝ ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.
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Open Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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Open Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Open Genesis 1:3

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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Open Genesis 1:4

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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Open Genesis 1:5

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Open Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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Open Genesis 1:7

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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Open Genesis 1:8

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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Open Genesis 1:9

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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Open Genesis 1:10

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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Open Genesis 1:11

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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Open Genesis 1:12

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Open Genesis 1:13

And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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Open Genesis 1:14

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
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Open Genesis 1:15

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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Open Genesis 1:16

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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Open Genesis 1:17

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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Open Genesis 1:18

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
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Open Genesis 1:19

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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Open Genesis 1:20

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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Open Genesis 1:21

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Open Genesis 1:22

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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Open Genesis 1:23

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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Open Genesis 1:24

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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Open Genesis 1:25

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Translation Note
אֱלֹהִים speaks, and the verb is נַעֲשֶׂה, “let us make,” with “our image” and “our likeness.” Strong’s H430 says elohim is plural in form and is used of the supreme God. This page does not quote a later Jewish commentary. The 1917 Jewish Publication Society keeps the plural: “Let us make man in our image.”
Christians read that plural with the Son, who is the image of the invisible God, and with the Spirit. The “us” is not a second deity beside the God of Genesis 1:1. Jesus is God, the Son, in the one God who makes man.
King James Version. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'”
Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English. “And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.”
Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek (1851). Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεός, Ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατʼ εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν·
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Open Genesis 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Open Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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Open Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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Open Genesis 1:29

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
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Open Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
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Open Genesis 1:31

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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