In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.a 2 Now the earth was formless and desolate,*?

4  After that God saw that the light was good, and God began to divide the light from the darkness. 5  God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night.f And there was evening and there was morning, a first day. 6  Then God said: “Let there be an expanseg between the waters, and let there be a division between the waters and the waters.”h 7  Then God went on to make the expanse and divided the waters beneath the expanse from the waters above the expanse.i And it was so. 8