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The Old Testament.
sample OF the GhaBges-How the
First Chapter of Genesis Reads.

The following is the first chapter of Genesis
according to the Revised Version. The nota-
tion OF the verses follows that of the authorized
version for the sake of comparison, though the
new version win be printed in paragraphs with
the verse numbers in the margin:
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.
2. And the earth was waste, and void; and dark
of God moved upon the face of the waters.
g. And God said: Let there be light; and there
was light.
4 And God saw the light that it was good; and
God divided the light from the darkness
5. And God called the light day and the darknsas
he called night. And there was evening and ths<e
8. And God said, let there be a armament n ehe
midst OF the waters, and let it divide the waters
z. And God made the armament, and divided the
waters which were under the ornament from the
waters which were above the armament, and it was
8. And God called the ornament heaven, and
there was evening and there was morning, second
day.
8. 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 the waters called he seas and
God saw that it was good.
IL. 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 tho
earth; and it was so.
yielding seed after It's kind and tree bearing fruit
wherein is the seed thereof and its kind; and God
saw that it was good.
l3. And there was evening and there was morn
ing, q third day.
IA. And God said: Let there be light in the nr-
mament of the heaven to divide the day from the
night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons
and for days, and years.
10. Andiet them be for lights in the armament
OF the heaven to give light upon the earth: and ii
was so.
l6. And God made the two great lights, the
greater light to rule the day. and the lessor light to
lule the night; he made the stars also.
IL. And God set them in the armament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth.
Is. And to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness; and Gsd
saw that it was good.
49, And there was evening and there was morn
20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life and
lot towl ny above the earth in the open ornament OF
heaven.
2l. And God created the great sea monsters, and
every living creature that moveth which the wat
ers brought forth abundantly, after their kinds
and every winged fowl after It's kind; and God saw
that II was good.
22 And God blessed them saying: Be fruitful
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas and
let fowl multiply in the earth.
70. And there was evening and there was morn
"a. And God said; Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after Its kind, cattle, and creeping
thing and beast of the earth after It's kind and t
was so.
20. And God made the beast of the earth after
lts nu, ana the cattle after their Kind, and
thing that creepeth upon the ground after its knd
and God saw that it good.
26. And God said: Let US make man in our I'M
age after our likeness; and let them have dominion
over the hsh OF the sea, and over the fowl Of the
air, and over the cattle and all the earth and
earth.
~. And God created man in his own image In
the image OF God created he him; male and female
created he them.
2S. And GOD blessed them, and God said unto
them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the
earth and subdue It, and have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth
~. And God said, Behold have given you every
herb yielding seed which is upon the face Of all the
earth and every tree in the which il the fruit OF
Tree yielding seed; to you 1t shall be for meat.
So And to every beast Of the earth, and to every
fowl OF the air, and to everything that crecpeth
upon the earth wherein there is life. have eivea
every green herb for meat; and 1t was so.
81. And God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. And there was eve
ning and there was morning, thS sixth day.