the earth

⁷He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.

²²He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. ⁶God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

³All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him.

⁵You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

¹After these things, I saw four Angels standing above the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that they would not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree.

²The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.

²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

²⁷I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;