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And it came to pass that Ahyeh Asher Ahyeha spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven and this earth; write the words which I speak.
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And the Earth, she was empty, and chaos filled her; and I caused darknessa to come up upon the face of the endless abyssb.
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¶ And I said: Let there be Creationa; and thus my work began.
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And I saw the beginning of The Creation, and she was good.
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And I divided the beginninga from the endb, and Creationa from Creatorb, and lighta from darknessb.
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And I called from a task to completion, or from beginning to an ending, an age or degreea; the beginning the day, and the end night.
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And the darkness of evening was pierced by the light of the morning; and this age was the first degreea.
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¶ And again, I said: Let there be a space dedicated in The Presencea of the Watersb; and it was so, even as I spake.
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And I said: Let it divide the waters above in the heavensa from the waters below upon the earthb; and it was done.
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And the veil was made, and this divided the waters, yea, the great waters under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so, even as I spake.
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And I called the firmament heaven; and this age was the second degree.
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¶ And I said: Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place; and it was so.
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And I said: Let there be dry land; and it was so.
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And I called the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called I the waters of the sea.
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And I saw that all things which had made were good.
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And I said: Let the earth bring forth vegetation, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself upon the earth;
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And it was so, even as I spake; yea, the earth brought forth vegetation, every herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself after his kind.
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And I saw that all things which had made were good; and this age was the third degree.
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¶ And I said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night;
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And let them be for signsa of what is and what shall be, and to mark times of appointments, and for days and for years,
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And let these lights in the firmament of the heavens give light unto the earth; and it was so.
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And I made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night;
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And the greater light was Shamesh or the suna, and the lesser light was Olea or the moonb; and Kokabim or the starsc also were made, even according to my Wordd.
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And I set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth;
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And the sun to watch over the day, and the moon to watch over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.
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And I saw that all things which had made were good; and this age was the fourth degree.
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¶ And I said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the desires, passions, and appetite that hath life, and fowl which may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heavens.
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And I created the great ones: the monstersa of the deepb, and all lifec that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind; and every winged fowl after his kind.
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And I saw that all things which had been created were good;
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And I blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the sea, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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And this age was the fifth degree.
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¶ And I said: Let the earth bring forth the living creatures after their kind; the beasts and creeping things, and all living creatures of the earth after their kind; and it was so.
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And I made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and creeping things after their kind, and all living creatures of the earth after their kind.
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And I saw that all these things were good.
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And I said unto Shea which was with me from the beginning, for we are one from before the beginning, before the foundation of the world: Let us make mankindb in our image, after our likeness; and it was so.
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And I said: Let them take stewardship over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and over all the earth, and all living creatures of the earth.
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And the elohima created mankind in our image and in the image of the Yachadb; created we them, male and femalec, both the male and the female.
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And I blessed them and said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and take charge of it;
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And watch over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth in righteousness.
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And I said unto mankinda: Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which shall be the fruit of a tree with seed; to you these shall be to eatb.
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And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every creeping thing upon the earth wherein I grant life, there shall be given every clean herb for food; and it was so, even as I spake.
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And I saw everything that I had made; and behold, all things which had made were very good; and this age was the sixth degree.
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¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their struggles;
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And in the seventh age, I ended my labors, and all things which had made: and Shabbata is the seventh age of all of this work;
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And all things of The Creation were brought to pass by The Creatora; and I saw that they were good.