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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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2.116.2.1 Genesis<br />

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and<br />

void; and darkness was upon the face <strong>of</strong> the deep. And the Spirit <strong>of</strong> God moved upon the face <strong>of</strong><br />

the waters.<br />

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 1<br />

And the evening and the morning were the first day.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 5<br />

And God saw that it was good.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 10<br />

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the<br />

night: he made the stars also.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 16<br />

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion<br />

over the fish <strong>of</strong> the sea, and over the fowl <strong>of</strong> the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and<br />

over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 26<br />

Male and female created he them.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 27<br />

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.<br />

Genesis ch. 1, v. 28<br />

And the Lord God formed man <strong>of</strong> the dust <strong>of</strong> the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the<br />

breath <strong>of</strong> life; and man became a living soul.<br />

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.<br />

Genesis ch. 2, v. 7<br />

And out <strong>of</strong> the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and<br />

good for food; the tree <strong>of</strong> life also in the midst <strong>of</strong> the garden, and the tree <strong>of</strong> knowledge <strong>of</strong> good<br />

and evil.<br />

Genesis ch. 2, v. 9<br />

But <strong>of</strong> the tree <strong>of</strong> the knowledge <strong>of</strong> good and evil, thou shalt not eat <strong>of</strong> it: for in the day that<br />

thou eatest there<strong>of</strong> thou shalt surely die.<br />

Genesis ch. 2, v. 17<br />

It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.<br />

Genesis ch. 2, v. 18<br />

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one <strong>of</strong> his<br />

ribs, and closed up the flesh instead there<strong>of</strong>;<br />

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.<br />

Genesis ch. 2, v. 21<br />

This is now bone <strong>of</strong> my bones, and flesh <strong>of</strong> my flesh: she shall be called

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