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The Story of Creation · Short Nonfiction Collection

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  The Story of Creation from the Children's Bible by Charles Foster Kent and Henry A.
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  Sherman. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  The Story of Creation In the beginning, God made the heavens and the
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  earth, and while the earth was still unformed, God said, let there
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  be light. And there was light, and God saw that the light was
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  good. Then God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the
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  light day and the darkness night. And there was an evening and a morning,
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  making the first day. And God said, let there be a sky,
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  and let it divide the waters that are below from the waters that are
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  above the sky. And it was done. And God called the sky the
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  heavens, and there was an evening and a morning, making the second day.
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  And God said, let the waters under the heavens be brought together,
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  and let the dry land appear. And it was done. And God called
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  the dry land earth, and the waters that were brought together seas, and
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  God saw that it was good. And God said, let plants and trees
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  grow from the earth. And it was done, and plants and trees grew
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  from the earth, each plant bringing forth its own kind of seed, and
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  each tree its own kind of fruit. And God saw that it was good.
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  And there was an evening and a morning, making the third day.
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  And God said, let there be lights in the heavens to separate the night
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  from the day. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, the days,
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  and the years. Let them be lights in the heavens to light the
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  earth. And it was done. God made the two great lights, the
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  sun and the moon, the greater to rule the day and the lesser to
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  rule the night. God made the stars also and place them in the heavens
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  to throw light upon the earth. And God saw that it was good.
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  And there was an evening and a morning, making the fourth day. And
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  God said, let the waters bring forth many living creatures, and let birds
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  fly above the earth and in the sky. And God made large sea monsters
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  and all kinds of living creatures with which the waters abound, and all kinds
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  of birds. And God saw that it was good, and he blessed them,
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  saying, increase and fill the waters in the sea, and let the
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  birds increase on the earth. And there was an evening and a morning,
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  making the fifth day. And God said, let the earth bring forth all
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  kinds of living creatures, cattle and creeping things, and wild beasts. And
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  it was done. So God made all the different kinds of wild beasts and
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  the cattle, and everything that crawls upon the ground. And God saw that
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  it was good. And God said, let us make man like ourselves.
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  Let him rule over the fish in the sea, the birds of the sky,
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  the cattle, the wild beasts, and all the living things that crawl
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  upon the ground. And God made man like himself, like God. He
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  made him. He made them male and female. And God blessed them and
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  said to them, have children, increase live all over the earth and conquer
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  it. Rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky,
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  and over every living thing that crawls upon the ground. And God said,
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  see to you, I give every plant which grows on all the earth,
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  and every tree which bears fruit with its own kind of seed. It
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  shall be food for you. And to every wild beast, and to every
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  bird of the sky, and to everything that crawls on the earth and is
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  alive. I give every green herb of food. And it was done.
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  And when God saw everything he had made. He saw that it was very
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  good. And there was an evening and a morning making the sixth day,
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  and the heavens and the earth were finished, and all that there was in
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  them. And on the seventh day, when God had finished the work which
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  he had done, he rested from all his work. And God blessed the
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  seventh day and made it holy, for in it he rested from all the
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  work which he had done. End of the Story of Creation from the Children's
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  Bible by Charles Foster Kent and Henry A. Sherman, read by Norah Nelson.