1-2. First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
11-13. God spoke: “Earth, green up! Grow all varietiesof seed-bearing plants,Every sort of fruit-bearing tree.”And there it was.Earth produced green seed-bearing plants,all varieties,And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts.God saw that it was good.It was evening, it was morning—Day Three.