Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In principio Dio creò il cielo e la terra.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was on the surface of the watery depths. And God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Ora la terra era informe e deserta e le tenebre ricoprivano l'abisso e lo spirito di Dio aleggiava sulle acque.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Dio disse: «Sia la luce!». E la luce fu.
4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
Dio vide che la luce era cosa buona e separò la luce dalle tenebre
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
e chiamò la luce giorno e le tenebre notte. E fu sera e fu mattina: primo giorno.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." And it was so.
Dio disse: «Sia il firmamento in mezzo alle acque per separare le acque dalle acque».
7 And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse.
Dio fece il firmamento e separò le acque, che sono sotto il firmamento, dalle acque, che son sopra il firmamento. E così avvenne.
8 And God called the expanse Sky. And God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Dio chiamò il firmamento cielo. E fu sera e fu mattina: secondo giorno.
9 And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one gathering, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. And the waters under the sky gathered to their gatherings, and the dry land appeared.
Dio disse: «Le acque che sono sotto il cielo, si raccolgano in un solo luogo e appaia l'asciutto». E così avvenne.
10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Dio chiamò l'asciutto terra e la massa delle acque mare. E Dio vide che era cosa buona.
11 And God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation, plants yielding seed after its kind, and fruit trees bearing fruit with seed in it after its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
E Dio disse: «La terra produca germogli, erbe che producono seme e alberi da frutto, che facciano sulla terra frutto con il seme, ciascuno secondo la sua specie». E così avvenne:
12 And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after its kind, and fruit trees bearing fruit with seed in it after its kind, on the earth. And God saw that it was good.
la terra produsse germogli, erbe che producono seme, ciascuna secondo la propria specie e alberi che fanno ciascuno frutto con il seme, secondo la propria specie. Dio vide che era cosa buona.
13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
E fu sera e fu mattina: terzo giorno.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky for the illumination of the day, to give light on the earth, and to rule the day and the night, and to separate between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years,
Dio disse: «Ci siano luci nel firmamento del cielo, per distinguere il giorno dalla notte; servano da segni per le stagioni, per i giorni e per gli anni
15 and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
e servano da luci nel firmamento del cielo per illuminare la terra». E così avvenne:
16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.
Dio fece le due luci grandi, la luce maggiore per regolare il giorno e la luce minore per regolare la notte, e le stelle.
17 And God set them in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,
Dio le pose nel firmamento del cielo per illuminare la terra
18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
e per regolare giorno e notte e per separare la luce dalle tenebre. E Dio vide che era cosa buona.
19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
E fu sera e fu mattina: quarto giorno.
20 And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let flying creatures fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky." And it was so.
Dio disse: «Le acque brulichino di esseri viventi e uccelli volino sopra la terra, davanti al firmamento del cielo».
21 And God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged flying creature after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Dio creò i grandi mostri marini e tutti gli esseri viventi che guizzano e brulicano nelle acque, secondo la loro specie, e tutti gli uccelli alati secondo la loro specie. E Dio vide che era cosa buona.
22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the flying creatures multiply on the earth."
Dio li benedisse: «Siate fecondi e moltiplicatevi e riempite le acque dei mari; gli uccelli si moltiplichino sulla terra».
23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
E fu sera e fu mattina: quinto giorno.
24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after its kind: tame animals, and crawling creatures, and wild animals of the earth after its kind." And it was so.
Dio disse: «La terra produca esseri viventi secondo la loro specie: bestiame, rettili e bestie selvatiche secondo la loro specie». E così avvenne:
25 And God made the wild animals of the earth after its kind, and the tame animals after its kind, and everything that crawls on the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Dio fece le bestie selvatiche secondo la loro specie e il bestiame secondo la propria specie e tutti i rettili del suolo secondo la loro specie. E Dio vide che era cosa buona.
26 And God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of the sky, and over the tame animals, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creature that crawls on the earth." And it was so.
E Dio disse: «Facciamo l'uomo a nostra immagine, a nostra somiglianza, e domini sui pesci del mare e sugli uccelli del cielo, sul bestiame, su tutte le bestie selvatiche e su tutti i rettili che strisciano sulla terra».
27 And God created humankind in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
Dio creò l'uomo a sua immagine; a immagine di Dio lo creò; maschio e femmina li creò.
28 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of the sky, and over all the tame animals, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over all the creatures that crawl on the earth."
Dio li benedisse e disse loro: «Siate fecondi e moltiplicatevi, riempite la terra; soggiogatela e dominate sui pesci del mare e sugli uccelli del cielo e su ogni essere vivente, che striscia sulla terra».
29 And God said, "Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Poi Dio disse: «Ecco, io vi do ogni erba che produce seme e che è su tutta la terra e ogni albero in cui è il frutto, che produce seme: saranno il vostro cibo.
30 And to every wild animal of the earth, and to every tame animal of the earth, and to every flying creature of the sky, and to every creature that crawls on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green plant for food."
A tutte le bestie selvatiche, a tutti gli uccelli del cielo e a tutti gli esseri che strisciano sulla terra e nei quali è alito di vita, io do in cibo ogni erba verde». E così avvenne.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and look, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Dio vide quanto aveva fatto, ed ecco, era cosa molto buona. E fu sera e fu mattina: sesto giorno.
