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The QEV is a modern-English, public-domain update of the American Standard Version. This edition is a work in progress; text is under active review. Words in [brackets] are supplied for sense and are not in the original.

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Genesis

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1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening and there was morning, a first day.

6And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7And God made the expanse and divided the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8And God called the expanse "heaven." And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. 10And God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of the waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind, in which is their seed, on the earth." And it was so. 12And the earth produced vegetation: plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. 15And let them be for lights in the expanse of heaven to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars also. 17And God set them in the expanse of heaven to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the expanse of heaven." 21And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, livestock, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kind." And it was so. 25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

28And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 29And God said, "Behold, I have given you* every plant yielding seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; to you* it will be for food. 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, [I have given] every green plant for food." And it was so. 31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.