¹In the beginning God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” After “God,” the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker. created the heavens and the earth.

¹Na počiatku stvoril Bôh nebesia a zem.

²Now 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.

²A zem bola neladná a pustá, a tma bola nad priepasťou, a Duch Boží sa oživujúci vznášal nad vodami.

³God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

³A Bôh riekol: Nech je svetlo! A bolo svetlo.

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

⁴A Bôh videl svetlo, že je dobré, a Bôh oddelil svetlo od tmy.

⁵God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was evening and there was morning, one day.

⁵A Bôh nazval svetlo dňom a tmu nazval nocou. A bol večer, a bolo ráno, prvý deň.

⁶God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

⁶A Bôh riekol: Nech je obloha medzi vodami a nech delí vody od vôd!

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

⁷A Bôh učinil oblohu a oddelil vody, ktoré sú pod oblohou, od vôd, ktoré sú nad oblohou. A bolo tak.

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

⁸A Bôh nazval oblohu nebom. A bol večer, a bolo ráno, druhý deň.

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

⁹A Bôh riekol: Nech sa shromaždia vody pod nebom na jedno miesto, a nech sa ukáže sušina! A bolo tak.

¹⁰God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

¹⁰A Bôh nazval sušinu zemou a shromaždenie vôd nazval morami. A Bôh videl, že je to dobré.

¹¹God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth”; and it was so.

¹¹A Bôh riekol: Nech vydá zem sviežu trávu, bylinu, vydávajúcu semä, ovocný strom, rodiaci ovocie podľa svojho druhu, v ktorom bude jeho semä, na zemi. A bolo tak.

¹²The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

¹²A zem vydala sviežu trávu, bylinu, vydávajúcu semä podľa svojho druhu, a všelijaký strom, rodiaci ovocie, v ktorom bolo jeho semä, podľa svojho druhu. A Bôh videl, že je to dobré.

¹³There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

¹³A bol večer, a bolo ráno, tretí deň.

¹⁴God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

¹⁴A Bôh riekol: Nech sú svetlá na nebeskej oblohe, aby delily deň od noci, a budú na znamenia, na určité časy, na dni a na roky.

¹⁵and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

¹⁵A budú svetlami na nebeskej oblohe, aby svietily na zem. A bolo tak.

¹⁶God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

¹⁶A Bôh učinil dve veľké svetlá, väčšie svetlo, aby panovalo nado dňom, a menšie svetlo, aby panovalo nad nocou, a tiež i hviezdy.

¹⁷God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

¹⁷A Bôh ich dal na nebeskú oblohu, aby svietily na zem

¹⁸and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

¹⁸a aby panovaly nado dňom i nad nocou a aby delily svetlo od tmy. A Bôh videl, že je to dobré.

¹⁹There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

¹⁹A bol večer, a bolo ráno, štvrtý deň.

²⁰God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”

²⁰A Bôh riekol: Nech sa hemžia vody hemživými tvory, živou dušou, a vtáctvo nech lieta nad zemou, na tvári nebeskej oblohy.

²¹God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

²¹A Bôh stvoril tie veľké ryby a všelijakú dušu živú, hýbajúcu sa, ktorými sa hemžia vody, podľa ich druhu, a všelijaké vtáctvo okrýdlené podľa jeho druhu. A Bôh videl, že je to dobré.

²²God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

²²A Bôh ich požehnal a riekol: Ploďte sa a množte sa a naplňte vody v moriach, a vtáctvo nech sa množí na zemi!

²³There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

²³A bol večer, a bolo ráno, piaty deň.

²⁴God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

²⁴A Bôh riekol: Nech vydá zem živú dušu podľa jej druhu: hovädá a plazy a zemskú zver podľa jej druhu! A bolo tak.

²⁵God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

²⁵A Bôh učinil zemskú zver podľa jej druhu i hovädá podľa ich druhu i všelijaký zemeplaz podľa jeho druhu. A Bôh videl, že je to dobré.

²⁶God 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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²⁶A Bôh riekol: Učiňme človeka na svoj obraz a podľa svojej podoby, a nech vládnu nad morskými rybami a nad nebeským vtáctvom a nad hovädami a nad celou zemou a nad každým plazom, ktorý sa plazí na zemi.

²⁷God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

²⁷A Bôh stvoril človeka na svoj obraz, na obraz Boží ho stvoril, mužské a ženské pohlavie ich stvoril.

²⁸God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

²⁸A Bôh ich požehnal a Bôh im riekol: Ploďte sa a množte sa a naplňte zem a podmaňte si ju a vládnite nad morskými rybami a nad nebeským vtáctvom i nad každým živým tvorom, ktorý sa plazí na zemi.

²⁹God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

²⁹A Bôh riekol: Hľa, dal som vám každú bylinu, ktorá plodí semä a ktorá je na tvári celej zeme, i každý strom, na ktorom je ovocie stromu, ktorý plodí semä. To všetko vám bude za pokrm.

³⁰To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.

³⁰A všetkým zvieratám zemským a všetkému vtáctvu nebeskému a všetkému, čo sa plazí na zemi, v čom je živá duša, dal som za pokrm všetko zelené byliny. A bolo tak.

³¹God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

³¹A Bôh videl všetko, čo učinil, a hľa, bolo to veľmi dobré. A bol večer, a bolo ráno, šiesty deň.