The Creation of the World by Moses

William Blake: God (1794)
1. Listen to the text.


1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

2. Listen and repeat aloud!

Want to know more?

The first chapter of the Bible uses an ancient poetic genre to declare that the universe and everything in it was created by God. To read the whole section see below: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+1/