Fr. Mike Schmitz

So God created man in his own image.

In the image of God, he created him.

Male and female, he created them.

And God blessed them.

And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

And God said, behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit.

You shall have them for food.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.

And it was so.

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.

And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them.

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground.

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.