Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1At the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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Genesis was drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while this book was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.
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The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Genesis are fragmentary. This draft does not replace Leningrad with a reading that was not read off a fragment. No earlier wording is guessed into the English. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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Bereshit is printed as its own clause, “at the beginning.” The word has no article, so it can also be read as the start of a longer sentence: “When God began to create the heavens and the earth…” That reading is not printed. The Hebrew verse stands as its own sentence in this copy.
2The earth was a wasteland and an emptiness. Darkness was over the face of the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the face of the waters.
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Tohu vavohu is a pair: a wasteland, and an emptiness. “Formless and void” is the older English pair, and it is not printed. Ruach can be spirit, breath, or wind. “God’s spirit” is printed. “A wind from God” is the live alternative.
3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
5God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. There was evening and there was morning: day one.
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The Hebrew says yom echad, “day one,” not “the first day.” The later days in this chapter are numbered “a second day,” “a third day,” and so on.
6God said, “Let there be a vault in the middle of the waters, and let it separate water from water.”
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Raqia is something hammered out, a solid vault. “Sky” is used when the Hebrew says shamayim. Here the made thing is the vault.
7God made the vault and separated the waters under the vault from the waters above the vault. And it was so.
8God called the vault sky. There was evening and there was morning: a second day.
9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so.
10God called the dry ground earth, and the gathering of the waters he called seas. God saw that it was good.
11God said, “Let the earth sprout green growth: plants that set seed, and fruit trees that make fruit, each by its kind, with its seed in it, on the earth.” And it was so.
12The earth brought out green growth, plants setting seed by their kinds, and trees making fruit with its seed in it by their kinds. God saw that it was good.
13There was evening and there was morning: a third day.
14God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky, to separate the day from the night. They will be for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years.
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Moadim are appointed times, the fixed meetings of the year, not the weather-word “seasons.”
15They will be for lights in the vault of the sky, to shine on the earth.” And it was so.
16God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night, and the stars.
17God set them in the vault of the sky to shine on the earth,
18to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
19There was evening and there was morning: a fourth day.
20God said, “Let the waters swarm with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth, across the face of the vault of the sky.”
21God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, by their kinds, and every winged bird by its kind. God saw that it was good.
22God blessed them. He said, “Bear fruit, become many, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds become many on the earth.”
23There was evening and there was morning: a fifth day.
24God said, “Let the earth bring out living creatures by their kinds: livestock, and crawling things, and the wild animals of the earth, by their kinds.” And it was so.
25God made the wild animals of the earth by their kinds, the livestock by their kinds, and every crawling thing of the ground by its kind. God saw that it was good.
26God said, “Let us make a human in our image, according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”
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The verb is plural, “let us make.” The Hebrew does not say who is included in “us.” Adam here has no article in the first clause and is the human being as a kind. The next verse uses “him” and then “them.”
27God created the human in his image. In the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them.
28God blessed them, and God said to them, “Bear fruit, become many, fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29God said, “Look, I have given you every plant that sets seed on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has tree-fruit setting seed. It will be food for you.
30And to every animal of the earth, every bird of the sky, and everything that crawls on the earth, everything in which there is living breath, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31God saw everything he had made, and look, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning: the sixth day.