The Old Testament of the Holy Bible - King James Version

1 The king James Version (KJV). of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible This copy of the Bible is provided to you free by the Tri-County church of Christ in Evans Mills, New York. The KJV is in the public domain, thus you may distribute it freely. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.. 2 Timothy 2:15. king James Version of the Old Testament - Genesis page 2. night: he made the stars also. 1:17 And God set The First Book them in the firmament of the heaven to give light of Moses, upon the earth, 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the called Genesis darkness: and God saw that it was good. 1:19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 1:20 And God said, Let the waters 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and bring forth abundantly the moving creature that the earth.

2 1:2 And the earth was without form, hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and void; and darkness was upon the face of the in the open firmament of heaven. 1:21 And God deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the created great whales, and every living creature face of the waters. that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was was light. 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good. 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be good: and God divided the light from the fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the darkness. 1:5 And God called the light Day, and seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 1:23 And the darkness he called Night. And the evening the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

3 And the morning were the first day. 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it from the waters. 1:7 And God made the was so. 1:25 And God made the beast of the firmament, and divided the waters which were earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, under the firmament from the waters which were and every thing that creepeth upon the earth above the firmament: and it was so. 1:8 And God after his kind: and God saw that it was good. called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the heaven be gathered together unto one place, fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all and let thedry land appear: and it was so.

4 1:10 the earth, and over every creeping thing that And God called the dry land Earth; and the creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 So God created gathering together of the waters called he Seas: man in his own image, in the image of God and God saw that it was good. 1:11 And God created he him; male and female created he them. said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over earth: and it was so. 1:12 And the earth brought the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and over every living thing that moveth upon and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in the earth.

5 Itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 1:13 And the evening and the morning 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you were the third day. every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be firmament of the heaven to divide the day from for meat. 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, the night; and let them be for signs, and for and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing seasons, and for days, and years: 1:15 And let that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven life, I have given every green herb for meat: and to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 1:16 it was so. 1:31 And God saw every thing that he And God made two great lights; the greater light had made, and, behold, it was very good.

6 And to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the king James Version of the Old Testament - Genesis page 3. the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were meet for him. 2:19 And out of the ground the finished, and all the host of them. 2:2 And on the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and seventh day God ended his work which he had every fowl of the air; and brought them unto made; and he rested on the seventh day from all Adam to see what he would call them: and his work which he had made. 2:3 And God whatsoever Adam called every living creature, blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: that was the name thereof. 2:20 And Adam gave because that in it he had rested from all his work names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and which God created and made.

7 To every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 2:21 And the 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon of the earth when they were created, in the day Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, that the LORD God made the earth and the and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 2:22 And heavens, 2:5 And every plant of the field before the rib, which the LORD God had taken from it was in the earth, and every herb of the field man, made he a woman, and brought her unto before it grew: for the LORD God had not the man. 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be not a man to till the ground. 2:6 But there went called Woman, because she was taken out of up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole Man.

8 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father face of the ground. 2:7 And the LORD God and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: formed man of the dust of the ground, and and they shall be one flesh. 2:25 And they were breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and both naked, the man and his wife, and were not man became a living soul. ashamed. 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any eastward in Eden; and there he put the man beast of the field which the LORD God had whom he had formed. 2:9 And out of the ground made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath made the LORD God to grow every tree that is God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree garden? of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

9 2:10 And a 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We river went out of Eden to water the garden; and may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3:3. from thence it was parted, and became into four But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst heads. 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 3:4 And where there is gold; 2:12 And the gold of that the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx surely die: 3:5 For God doth know that in the stone. 2:13 And the name of the second river is day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good land of Ethiopia.

10 2:14 And the name of the third and evil. 3:6 And when the woman saw that the river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one Euphrates. 2:15 And the LORD God took the wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, man, and put him into the garden of Eden to and gave also unto her husband with her; and dress it and to keep it. 2:16 And the LORD God he did eat. 3:7 And the eyes of them both were commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the opened, and they knew that they were naked;. garden thou mayest freely eat: 2:17 But of the and they sewed fig leaves together, and made tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou themselves aprons. 3:8 And they heard the voice shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest of the LORD God walking in the garden in the thereof thou shalt surely die.