A reading from the book of Genesis.

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty

wind swept over the waters.

Then God said, let there be light, and there was light.

God saw how good the light was, and then separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light day and the darkness he called night. Thus evening came and morning followed

the first day. Then God said, let there be a dome in the middle of the waters to separate

one body of water from another.

And so it happened.

God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it.

God called the dome the sky.

Evening came and morning followed the second day.

Then God said, let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that there that the dry land may appear.

And so it happened.

The water under the sky was gathered into its basin and the dry land appeared.

God called the dry land the earth and the basin of the water he called the sea.

God saw how good it was.

Then God said, let the earth bring forth vegetation,

every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with the seed in it.

And so it happened.

The earth brought forth every kind of plant that bears seeds and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it.

God saw how good it was.

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