First ReadingGenesis 1:20—2:4a
From the Book of Genesis
20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures,and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”21God created the large sea creaturesand 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.22God blessed them, saying,“Be fruitful, and multiply,and fill the waters in the seas,and let birds multiply on the earth.”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.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.
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.”27God created man in his own image.In God’s image he created him;male and female he created them.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.”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.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.
31God saw everything that he had made,and, behold, it was very good.There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
1The heavens, the earth,and all their vast array were finished.2On 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.3God blessed the seventh day,and made it holy,because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
4This is the history of the generations of the heavensand of the earth when they were created,in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.