Genesis 1
1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
NEL principio Iddio creò il cielo e la terra.
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.
E la terra era una cosa deserta e vacua; e tenebre [erano] sopra la faccia dell'abisso. E lo Spirito di Dio si moveva sopra la faccia delle acque.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
E Iddio disse: Sia la luce. E la luce fu.
4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
E Iddio vide che la luce [era] buona. E Iddio separò la luce dalle tenebre.
5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
E Iddio nominò la luce Giorno, e le tenebre Notte. Così fu sera, e [poi] fu mattina, [che fu] il primo giorno.
6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
Poi Iddio disse: Siavi una distesa tra le acque, la quale separi le acque dalle acque.
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.
E Iddio fece quella distesa: e separò le acque che [son] disotto alla distesa, da quelle che [son] disopra d'essa. E così fu.
8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
E Iddio nominò la distesa Cielo. Così fu sera, e [poi] fu mattina, [che fu] il secondo giorno.
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.
Poi Iddio disse: Sieno tutte le acque, [che son] sotto al cielo, raccolte in un luogo, ed apparisca l'asciutto. E così fu.
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.
E Iddio nominò l'asciutto Terra, e la raccolta delle acque Mari. E Iddio vide che [ciò era] buono.
11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
Poi Iddio disse: Produca la terra erba minuta, erbe che facciano seme, ed alberi fruttiferi che portino frutto, secondo le loro specie; il cui seme [sia] in esso, sopra la terra. E così fu.
12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
La terra adunque produsse erba minuta, erbe che fanno seme, secondo le loro specie, ed alberi che portano frutto, il cui seme [è] in esso, secondo le loro specie. E Iddio vide che [ciò era] buono.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Così fu sera, e [poi] fu mattina, [che fu] il terzo giorno.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Poi Iddio disse: Sienvi de' luminari nella distesa del cielo, per far distinzione tra il giorno e la notte: e quelli sieno per segni, e per [distinguer] le stagioni e i giorni e gli anni.
15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
E sieno per luminari nella distesa del cielo, per recar la luce in su la terra. E così fu.
16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
Iddio adunque fece i due gran luminari (il maggiore per avere il reggimento del giorno, e il minore per avere il reggimento della notte), e le stelle.
17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
E Iddio li mise nella distesa del cielo, per recar la luce sopra la terra,
18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
e per avere il reggimento del giorno e della notte, e per separar la luce dalle tenebre. E Iddio vide che [ciò era] buono.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Così fu sera, e [poi] fu mattina, [che fu] il quarto giorno.
20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
Poi Iddio disse: Producano le acque copiosamente rettili, [che sieno] animali viventi; e volino gli uccelli sopra la terra, e per la distesa del cielo.
21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.
Iddio adunque creò le grandi balene, ed ogni animal vivente che va serpendo; i quali animali le acque produssero copiosamente, secondo le loro specie; ed ogni [sorta di] uccelli che [hanno] ale, secondo le loro specie. E Iddio vide che [ciò era] buono.
22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.
E Iddio li benedisse, dicendo: Figliate, moltiplicate, ed empiete le acque ne' mari; moltiplichino parimente gli uccelli sulla terra.
23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
Così fu sera, e [poi] fu mattina, [che fu] il quinto giorno.
24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
Poi Iddio disse: Produca la terra animali viventi, secondo le loro specie; bestie domestiche, rettili e fiere della terra, secondo le loro specie. E così fu.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.
Iddio adunque fece le fiere della terra, secondo le loro specie; e gli animali domestici, secondo le loro specie; ed ogni [sorta di] rettili della terra, secondo le loro specie. E Iddio vide che [ciò era] buono.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Poi Iddio disse: Facciamo l'uomo alla nostra immagine, secondo la nostra somiglianza; ed abbia la signoria sopra i pesci del mare, e sopra gli uccelli del cielo, e sopra le bestie, e sopra tutta la terra, e sopra ogni rettile che serpe sopra la terra.
27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
Iddio adunque creò l'uomo alla sua immagine; egli lo creò all'immagine di Dio; egli li creò maschio e femmina.
28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
E Iddio li benedisse, e disse loro: Fruttate e moltiplicate, ed empiete la terra, e rendetevela soggetta, e signoreggiate sopra i pesci del mare, e sopra gli uccelli del cielo, e sopra ogni bestia che cammina sopra la terra.
29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Oltre a ciò, Iddio disse: Ecco, io vi do tutte l'erbe che producono seme, che son sopra tutta la terra; e tutti gli alberi fruttiferi che fanno seme. [Queste cose] vi saranno per cibo.
30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
Ma a tutte le bestie della terra, ed a tutti gli uccelli del cielo, ed a tutti gli animali che serpono sopra la terra, ne' quali è anima vivente, [io do] ogni erba verde per mangiarla. E così fu.
31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
E Iddio vide tutto quello ch'egli avea fatto; ed ecco, [era] molto buono. Così fu sera, e [poi] fu mattina, [che fu] il sesto giorno.
