Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-30
THE Nkw OLD TESTAMENT.
Chapter First of Genesis Given In fuli--
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II I. In tho beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
2. And the earth was waeie and void
and darkness covered the face Of the
deep and The spirit os God moved up
ON the face of the waters.
8 And God said, Let there be light,
and there was light IN
4. And God saw the light, that IL was
good, and God divided the light from
the darkness.
5. And God called the light day, and
the darkness night; and there was even
ing and there was morning, one day.
6. And God said, let there be firm
ament in the midst OF the waters. and
let it divide the waters from the wa
ters.
2. And God made the ornament and
divided the waters which were under
the armament from the waters which
were above the armament; and il was
so.
s. And God called the armament
heaven; and there was evening and
there was morning, a second day.
g. And God said Let the waters
under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let the dry land
appear; and it was so.
10. And God called the dry land
earth, and the gathering together Of tho
waters called he sea-; and God saw that
it was good
II. And God said, Let the earth put
forth grass, herb yielding seed and
fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind,
wherein is the seed thereof upon the
earth, and il was 30.
IL. And the earth brought forth
grass, herb yielding seed after it's kind
and tree bearing fruit wherein il the
seed thereof after its kind; and God
saw that it was good
Is And there was evening aud there
was morning, a third day.
IA. And God said, Let there be light
in the armament of the heaven. to di-
vide the day from tho night, and let
them be for signs and for seasons and
for days and years.
Is. And let them be for lights in the
tirmama ant Of the heaven, TO give light
upon the earth; and IL wis 50.
Ii. And God made the two great
lights, the greater light 10 rule the day
and the lesser light to rule the night;
he made the stars also
IL. And Col set them ia the frma-
ment OF the heaven 10 give light upon
the earth.
Is. Aud 10 rule over the day and
over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness; and God saw that
it was good.
49, And there was evening and there
WAS morning, a fourth day.
20. And God said, Let the waters
bring forth abundantly, the moving
creature that hath life, and let fowl fiy
above the earth in the open iirnnlment
Of heaven.
81. And God created the great sea
monsters and every living creature
that movelh, which the waters brought
forth abundantly after their kinds, and
every winged fowl after its kind; and
God saw that it was good.
p. And God blessed them, saying,
De fruitful and multiply and iill the
waters in the seas, and let the fowl null
tiply in the earth.
%. And there was evening and there
was morning, a fifth day.
"A. And God said, Let the earth
bring forth the living creatue after
its kind, cattle and creeping thing and
beast Of the earth after It's kind; and it
was so Yep Af
25. And God made the beast Of the
earth after its kind, and the cattle after
their kind, and everything that creep
eth upon the ground after its kind;
and God saw that il was good.
26 And God sand, Let us make man
in our image after our likeness, and
let them have dominion over the fish
OF the sea and over the fowl of the air
and over the cattle and over the earth
and over every creeping thing that
crrepeth upon the earth.
"a. And GtL created man in his own
image, III the image of God created He
him; male and female created He
them.
-. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them. be fruitful and multi
ply and rcplenish the earth, and sub
lus it and have dominion over the fish
Of the sea- and over the fowl of the air
and over every living thing that NOV
eth upon the earth.
20. And God said. Behold have
given you every herb yielding seed
which is upon the face OF all the earth,
,nd every tree in which is the fruit Of
, tree yielding seed; to you il shall be
for meat.
81. And to every beast OF the earth
md IT, every fowl vi the air and 10 ev-
that creepeth upon the earth,
there is lie, / have given ev-
Fry green herb for meat; and il was
70.
81 And God saw everything that He
lad made, and behold IL was very good;
md there was evening and there wis
the sixth day.