The first chapter of Genesis contains one of the two stories of creation that are found in the book.
I love the first couple of verses of this: In the beginning when God was creating the heavens and the earth. The earth was a formless void and the breath of God moved over the face of the waters.
There are a few things about this creation story to note:
1. The days are evening and morning - this is still the way that both Judaism and the Catholic and Episcopal churches count the days - from sundown to sun up rather than the Roman way from sun up to sundown.
2. God refers to himself in the plural - let us make
3. God refers to the creation as good or pleasant but not perfect
4. God creates human kind - literally earth beings - in his own image. The verses read: "So God created humankind in his image, in teh image of God he created them; male and female he created them." - We are made in the image of God
5. And God rests on the seventh day.
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