Gospel of John Fall 2008

Genesis 1

Notes:

[yellow: in the Greek, the verb ‘ginomai’=to become]

This is a major link with John 1.

[blue: ‘arche’=principle, source, rule]

Another link to John 1, also to 13:5

1 IN the beginning God created heaven and earth.

2 And the earth was void & vacant, and darkness was upon the face of the

depth: and the Spirit of God moved over the waters.

3 And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

4 And God saw the light that it was good: & he divided the light from the

darkness.

5 And he called the light, Day, and the darkness, Night: and there was evening

& morning, that made one day.

6 God also said: Be (a) a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide

between waters & waters.

7 And God made a firmament, and divided the waters, that were under the

firmament, from those, that were above the firmament. And it was so done.

8 And God called the firmament, (b) Heaven: and there was evening &

morning that made the second day.

9 God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together

into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

10 And God called the dry land, Earth: and the gathering of waters together, he

called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11 And said: Let the earth shoot forth green herbs, and such as may seed, &

fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, such as may have seed in itself upon the

earth. And it was so done.

12 And the earth brought forth green herb, such as seedeth according to his

kind, & tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to his kind. And

God saw that it was good.

13 And there was evening & morning that made the third day.

14 Again God said: Be there lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide

the day & the night, and let them be (c) for signs & seasons, and days and

years:

15 to shine in the firmament of heaven, & to give light upon the earth. And it

was so done.

16 And God made two (d) great lights: a greater light, to govern the day: and a

lesser light to govern the night: and stars.

17 And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to shine upon the earth.

18 and to govern the day & the night, and to divide the light & the darkness.

And God saw that it was good.

19 And there was evening and morning that made the fourth day.

20 God also said: Let the waters bring forth creeping creature having life, and

flying fowl, over the earth under the firmament of heaven [ ].

21 And God created huge Whales, and all living & moving creature, that the

waters brought forth, according to each sort, & all fowl according to their kind.

And God saw that it was good.

22 And he blessed them saying: Increase and multiply, and replenish the waters

of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.

23 And there was evening & morning that made the fifth day.

24 God said moreover: Let the earth bring forth living creature, in his kind,

cattle, & such as creep, & beasts of the earth according to their kinds: and it

was so done.

25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, &

all that creepeth on the earth in his kind.

And God saw that it was good,

26 and he said Let us make Man to our image, & likeness: and let him have

dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts,

and the whole earth, and all creeping creature, that moveth upon the earth.

27 And God created man, to his own image: to the image of God he created

him, male & female he created them.

28 And God blessed them, and saith: Increase and multiply, & replenish the

earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and fowls of the air, &

all living creatures, that move upon the earth.

29 And God said: Behold I have given you all manner of herb that seedeth

upon the earth, and all trees that have in them selves seed of their own kind, to

be your meat:

30 and to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, & to all that move

upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And

it was so done.

31 And God saw all things that he had made, and (e) they were very good. And

there was evening & morning that made the sixth day.