Genesis 1:1 - 2:25 — The Creation Story

1:1-3 Bareness of matter: "The earth was without form and void"

1:4-5 Separation of light and darkness: "God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night"

1:6-8 Separation of the firmament from waters: "Heaven"

1:9-10 Separation of dry land from waters: "Earth" and "Seas"

1:11-13 Fulfilling the Earth: Vegetation, plant and trees bearing seed

1:14-19 Filling Heaven with time keepers: Sun, Moon, and Stars

1:20-23 Filling Heaven and Seas with living creatures

1:24-25 Filling Earth with living creatures

1:26-28 Creation of man in God's image. To be fruitful and fill the earth and have dominion over all living creatures

1:29-30 Vegetation for all living creatures

1:31 - 2:1 Heavens and earth completed and all its host

2:2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done,

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

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So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,

because on it God rested

from all his work that he had done in creation.

2:4 Generations of the heavens and the earth

2:5-6 No vegetation until a mist waters the whole earth

2:7-8 Creation of man from dust. Placed him in the garden of Eden

2:9 Filling the garden with trees

2:10-14 Filling the garden with water: "A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden"

2:15-17 Filling the Garden with a Keeper (Man) to be tested

2:18 Fulfilling Man: "I will make him a helper fit for him."

2:19-20 Separation of the animals: Man names the animals

2:21-23 Separation of man and woman: Man slept, LORD God takes rib and makes Woman

2:24 Separation of parents and children: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

2:25 Bareness of man: "And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."