GOD in the Old Testament - Part 3

Genesis 1:28 - 2:1-9  

    God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

    Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground--everything that has breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

    God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning--the sixth day. 

 

    Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

 

By the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

 

    This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

 

    Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

 

    Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed. The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

  

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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