⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

¹⁹ The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

² Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

³ God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

⁴ God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

⁶ God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

⁷ God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.

⁸ God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

⁹ God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.

¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.

⁵ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;