Creation.
THE BOOKE OF GENESIS, IN HEBREW BERESITH.
Chap. I.
God createth heauen and earth, and al things therin; distinguishing and bewtyfying the same; 26. last of al the sixth day he createth man: to whom he subiecteth al corporal things of this inferior world.
In the beginning God created heauen and earth. 2And the earth was voide & vacant, and darkenes was vpon the face of the deapth: and the Spirite of God moued ouer the waters. 3And God said: Be light made. And light was made. 4And God saw the light that it was good: & he diuided the light from the darkenes. 5And he called the light, Day, and the darkenes, Night: and there was euening & morning, that made one day. 6God also said: Be[1] a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it diuide betwene waters & waters. 7And God made a firmament, and diuided the waters, that were vnder the firmament, from those, that were aboue the firmament. And it was so done. 8And God called the firmament,[2] Heauen: and there was euening & morning that made the second day. 9God also said: Let the waters that are vnder the heauen, be gathered together into one place: and let the drie land appeare. And it was so done. 10And God called the drie land, Earth: and the gathering of waters together, he called Seas. And God sawe that it was good. 11And said: Let the earth shootforth grene herbes, and such as may seede, & fruite trees yelding fruit after his kinde, such as may haue seede in it selfe vpon the earth. And it was so done. 12And the earth brought forth
- ↑ The firmament is al the space from the earth to the hieghest starres. the lowest part diuideth betwene the waters on the earth and the waters in the ayer. S. Aug. li. 11. de Gen. ad lit. c. 4
- ↑ Likewise heauen is al the space aboue the earth. in whose lowest part are birdes and waters, in the higher part starres. the hieghest is the Empyrial heauen. Esa. 66.
