BERESHIT / GENESIS – GENESIS
GENESIS 1-1 ~ There was God, and there was no “before God” and there was no “other God”. And God (in His nature as Creator and Ruler) created a beginning, an existence of void and emptiness. And within this He created spirituality and matter. 1-2 ~ And the matter had no specific form because it existed in a chaotic state. Throughout its depth it was dark and only God, in the form of a Spiritual wind, moved within the matter. 1-3 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “Let there be light”, He willed “light” into being, and light came into existence within the matter. 1-4 ~ God was content with the light He had created, and He gathered the light and He gathered the darkness to create a separation between the light and the darkness. 1-5 ~ God fashioned words and with these words He called to the light and named it “Day”. And He fashioned words and with these words He called to the darkness and named it “Night”. The evening and the morning were thus established as one day.
1-6 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “There shall be a sky.” He willed “sky” into being. 1-7 ~ He formed the sky within the matter He had created so as to establish a firmament separate from the matter that would become the earth. 1-8 ~ God named the sky “Heaven”. An evening passed and a morning came, and so a second day was completed.
1-9 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “The matter which is under the heaven shall be gathered into one place and dry land shall be seen”, it happened as He willed it. 1-10 ~ He named the dry land “Earth” and He named the gathered waters “Seas”. God was content with what He had gathered together. 1-11 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “The earth shall send forth vegetation”, it happened as He willed it. 1-12 ~ Plant life of every kind, seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees producing their particular fruits with seeds came out of the earth, each according to how God had willed it. God was content with the vegetation from the earth that He had willed. 1-13 ~ An evening passed and a morning came, and so a third day was completed.
1-14 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “There shall be lights as stars in the heavenly expanse of the sky,” it happened as He willed it. These lights He made as a division between the day and the night. And by His Words He established these lights as signs to fix distance and position on the earth and as markers of the time of festivals and of cycles of days and years.
1-15 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “They shall be lights emanating from the heavenly expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth, lights for illumination and for the growth of life,” it happened as He willed it. 1-16 ~ God thus established two large lights in the heavenly expanse of the sky, the larger to illumine the day and the smaller to illumine the night together with the stars.
1-17 ~ God placed them in the heavenly expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, 1-18 ~ to illumine the day and the night and to create a separation of the light from the darkness. 1-19 ~ God was content with the lights that He had willed. An evening passed and a morning came, and so a fourth day was completed.
1-20 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “Let swimming creatures fill the waters. Let flying creatures fill the skies”, it happened as He willed it.
1-21 ~ God created the huge swimming creatures, the ordinary swimming creatures, the creatures that fly and the creatures that move upon the land. God was content with these creatures that He had willed. 1-22 ~ God blessed His creations with this blessing: “Produce offspring and increase your species. Swimming creatures, fill the waters of the seas with your species. Flying creatures, fill the land, upon which you rest from your flying, with your species.” 1-23 ~ An evening passed and a morning came, and so a fifth day was completed.
1-24 ~ God fashioned words and with these words: “Upon the earth there shall be various species of creatures: livestock, other land animals, and crawling creatures”, it happened as He willed it. 1-25 ~ Of these various species of His creations: livestock, other land animals, and crawling creatures, God was content with these land creatures that he had willed.
1-26 ~ God fashioned words and with these words He announced to the Host of Heavenly creatures which He had created: “Let us make a representative on the earth of ourselves in a form and with abilities to be worthy of Us, to emulate Us, as if in Our likeness. They shall have superiority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock animals, every creature that moves upon the earth, and over every thing of the earth.” 1-27 ~ This is the way God created man. As if in the likeness of God did God create man; with the nature of male and female did He create man.
1-28 ~ God