1) God created heaven and earth over the course of six days. Each day he created different aspects of the world - light, sky, land, plants, stars, animals, and finally humans.
2) On the seventh day, God rested. He blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
3) God planted a garden called Eden and placed the first man and woman there. The garden contained the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
1) God created heaven and earth over the course of six days. Each day he created different aspects of the world - light, sky, land, plants, stars, animals, and finally humans.
2) On the seventh day, God rested. He blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
3) God planted a garden called Eden and placed the first man and woman there. The garden contained the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
1) God created heaven and earth over the course of six days. Each day he created different aspects of the world - light, sky, land, plants, stars, animals, and finally humans.
2) On the seventh day, God rested. He blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
3) God planted a garden called Eden and placed the first man and woman there. The garden contained the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
1) God created heaven and earth over the course of six days. Each day he created different aspects of the world - light, sky, land, plants, stars, animals, and finally humans.
2) On the seventh day, God rested. He blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
3) God planted a garden called Eden and placed the first man and woman there. The garden contained the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Chapter 1 12 And the earth brought forth the green
herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed 2 And the earth was void and empty, and each one according to its kind. And God saw darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the that it was good. spirit of God moved over the waters. 13 And the evening and the morning were the 3 And God said: Be light made. And light third day. was made. 14 And God said: Let there be lights made 4 And God saw the light that it was good; and in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day he divided the light from the darkness. and the night, and let them be for signs, and for 5 And he called the light Day, and the dark- seasons, and for days and years: ness Night; and there was evening and morning 15 To shine in the firmament of heaven, and one day. to give light upon the earth, and it was so done. 6 And God said: Let there be a firmament 16 And God made two great lights: a greater made amidst the waters: and let it divide the light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule waters from the waters. the night: and The stars. 7 And god made a firmament, and divided 17 And he set them in the firmament of heaven the waters that were under the firmament, from to shine upon the earth. those that were above the firmament, and it was 18 And to rule the day and the night, and to so. divide the light and the darkness. And God saw 8 And God called the firmament, Heaven; and that it was good. the evening and morning were the second day. 19 And the evening and morning were the 9 God also said; Let the waters that are under fourth day. the heaven, be gathered together into one place: 20 God also said: let the waters bring forth and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. the creeping creature having life, and the fowl 10 And God called the dry land, Earth; and that may fly over the earth under the firmament the gathering together of the waters, he called of heaven. Seas. And God saw that it was good. 21 And God created the great whales, and 11 And he said: let the earth bring forth green every living and moving creature, which the herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree waaters brought forth, according to their kinds, yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed and every winged fowl according to its kind. And in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. God saw that it was good. 4 Book of Genesis
22 And he blessed them, saying: Increase and Chapter 2
multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth. So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them. 23 And the evening and morning were the fifth 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work day. which he had made: and he rested on the seventh 24 And God said: Let the earth bring forth day from all his work which he had done. the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping 3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sancti- things, and beasts of the earth, according to their fied it: because in it he had rested from all his kinds. And it was so done. work which God created and made. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth 4 These are the generations of the heaven and according to their kinds, and cattle, and every the earth, when they were created, in the day thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. that the Lord God made the heaven and the And God saw that it was good. earth: 5 And every plant of the field before it sprung 26 And he said: Let us make man to our image up in the earth, and every herb of the ground and likeness: and let him have dominion over the before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the upon the earth; and there was not a man to till beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping the earth. creature that moveth upon the earth. 6 But a spring rose out of the earth, watering 27 And God created man to his own image: all the surface of the earth. to the image of God he created him: male and 7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime female he created them. of the earth: and breathed into his face the 28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase breath of life, and man became a living soul. and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, 8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed of the air, and all living creatures that move man whom he had formed. upon the earth. 9 And the Lord God brought forth of the 29 And God said: Behold I have given you ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the trees that have in themselves seed of their own midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of kind, to be your meat: good and evil. 10 And a river went out of the place of plea- 30 And to all beasts of the earth, and to every sure to water paradise, which from thence is di- fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the vided into four heads. earth, and wherein there is life, that they may 11 The name of the one is Phison: that is it have to feed upon. And it was so done. which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where 31 And God saw all the things that he had gold groweth. made, and they were very good. And the evening 12 And the gold of that land is very good: and morning were the sixth day. there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.
(Comparative Feminist Studies) Charu Gupta (Auth.) - Sexuality, Obscenity, Community - Women, Muslims, and The Hindu Public in Colonial India-Palgrave Macmillan US (2001)