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.

¹V začetku je ustvaril Bog nebesa in zemljo.

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.

²In zemlja je bila pusta in prazna, in tema je bila nad breznom, in Duh Božji je plaval nad vodami.

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

³In reče Bog: Bodi svetloba! In bila je svetloba.

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

⁴In videl je Bog svetlobo, da je dobra; in ločil je Bog svetlobo od teme.

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

⁵In svetlobo je Bog imenoval dan, a temo je imenoval noč. In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan prvi.

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

⁶In reče Bog: Bodi raztežje med vodami, da bo ločilo vode te in one.

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.

⁷Naredi torej Bog raztežje in loči vode, ki so pod raztežjem, od vod, ki so nad raztežjem. In zgodilo se je tako.

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

⁸Raztežje to pa je imenoval Bog nebo. In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan drugi.

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

⁹In reče Bog: Zberó se naj vode, ki so pod nebom, v en kraj, in prikaži se sušina. In zgodilo se je tako.

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

¹⁰In sušino je imenoval Bog zemljo, a stoke vodá je imenoval morja. In videl je Bog, da je dobro.

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.

¹¹Še reče Bog: Zemlja poženi travo, zelenjavo, ki rodi seme, rodovitno drevje, ki daje sadje po svojem plemenu, katerega seme bodi v njem na zemlji! In zgodilo se je tako.

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.

¹²In pognala je zemlja travo, zelenjavo, ki rodeva seme po svojem plemenu, in drevje, ki daje sadje, katerega seme je v njem, po njegovem plemenu. In videl je Bog, da je dobro.

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

¹³In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan tretji.

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;

¹⁴Nato reče Bog: Bodo naj luči na raztežju nebeškem, da ločijo dan in noč, in naj bodo za znamenja ter določujejo čase, dneve in leta,

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

¹⁵in bodo naj za luči na raztežju nebeškem, da svetijo na zemljo! In zgodilo se je tako.

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.

¹⁶In naredil je Bog tisti dve veliki luči: luč večjo, da gospoduje dnevu, in luč manjšo, da gospoduje noči, in zvezde.

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

¹⁷In Bog jih je postavil na raztežje nebeško, da svetijo na zemljo

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

¹⁸ter da gospodujejo dnevu in noči in da ločijo svetlobo od teme. In videl je Bog, da je dobro.

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

¹⁹In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan četrti.

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

²⁰In reče Bog: Obilo naj rodé vode gibkih stvari, živečih, in ptice naj letajo nad zemljo proti raztežju nebeškemu.

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.

²¹In ustvaril je Bog velike morske živali in vse žive stvari, ki se gibljejo, ki so jih obilo rodile vode, po njih plemenih, in vse ptice krilate po njih plemenih. In videl je Bog, da je dobro.

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

²²In blagoslovi jih Bog, govoreč: Plodite in množite se ter napolnite vode po morjih, in ptice naj se množe po zemlji.

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

²³In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan peti.

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.

²⁴In reče Bog: Rodi naj zemlja žive stvari po njih plemenih, živino in laznino in zveri zemeljske po njih plemenih! In zgodilo se je tako.

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.

²⁵In naredil je Bog zveri zemeljske po njih plemenih in živino po njenih plemenih in vso laznino zemeljsko po njenih vrstah. In videl je Bog, da je dobro.

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.”

²⁶In reče Bog: Naredimo človeka po svoji podobi, ki nam bodi sličen, in gospodujejo naj ribam morskim in pticam nebeškim in živini in vesoljni zemlji ter vsej laznini, lazeči po zemlji.

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

²⁷In ustvaril je Bog človeka po svoji podobi, po Božji podobi ga je ustvaril: moža in ženo ju je ustvaril.

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.”

²⁸In blagoslovi ju Bog, in reče jima Bog: Plodita in množita se in napolnita zemljo ter podvrzita si jo, in gospodujta ribam morskim in pticam nebeškim in vsem zverem, lazečim po zemlji.

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.

²⁹In reče Bog: Glejta, dal sem vama vso zelenjavo, ki rodeva seme, katera je na površju vse zemlje, in vse drevje, na katerem je sad drevesni, ki rodeva seme: bodi vama v hrano.

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.

³⁰Vsem živalim pa na zemlji in vsem pticam pod nebom in vsemu, kar lazi po zemlji, v katerih je duša živa, sem dal vso zelenjavo zeleno v hrano. In zgodilo se je tako.Tedaj pogleda Bog vse, kar je bil storil, in glej, dobro je bilo jako. In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan šesti.

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

³¹Tedaj pogleda Bog vse, kar je bil storil, in glej, dobro je bilo jako. In bil je večer, in bilo je jutro, dan šesti.