¹⁸ For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

¹⁰ And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;

¹¹ Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹² Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.

¹² I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

¹⁵ He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:

⁶ So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.