⁶ Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

¹⁹ And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

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.

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁶ And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

⁸ And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

¹⁰ And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;