Creation Story - NAS

1. The Story of This Earth Begins with God.

Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [2] The earth was ______________ and void, and ______________ was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

2. On the First Day God Created Light.

Genesis 1:3-5 Then God said, "Let there be light "; and there was light. [4] God saw that the light was good; and God ________________ the light from the darkness. [5] God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was ____________ and there was ____________, one day.

Which part of the day came first? Was it the evening or the morning? __________________.

3. On the Second Day of Creation What Did God Create?

Genesis 1:6-8 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it ______________ the waters from the waters." [7] God made the expanse, and ______________d the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. [8] God called the expanse heaven. And there was ____________ and there was ____________, a second day.

Notice that water in two places: on the earth and above the earth. Firmament means air. God called the firmament heaven. There are three heavens in the Bible.
1) The air above the earth
2) The place where the stars are
3) The place where God lives

How long does it say it took God to divide the water above the firmament from the water below it? ______________________.

4. On the Third Day God Made Dry Land Appear.

Genesis 1:9-13 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be ______________ into one place, and let the dry land appear "; and it was so. [10] God called the dry land earth, and the ________________ of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. [11] Then God said, "Let the earth __________ vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. [12] The earth ____________ forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. [13] There was ____________ and there was ____________, a _________ day.

What did God make in addition to dry land and seas? ______________________________________________________________.

5. On the Fourth Day of Creation God Made Something to Govern the Day and the Night.

Genesis 1:14-19 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for ____________ and for days and years; [15] and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth "; and it was so. [16] God made the two great lights, the ____________ light to govern the day, and the __________ light to govern the night; He made the stars also. [17] God __________ them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, [18] and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the ______________; and God saw that it was good. [19] There was ____________ and there was ____________, a __________ day.

What three things does the Bible say God made on the fourth day? __________________ ____________________ ___________________.

6. What Did God Make on the Fifth Day?

Genesis 1:20-23 Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." [21] God created the great sea ______________ and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. [22] God ____________ them, saying, "Be ______________ and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." [23] There was ____________ and there was ____________, a fifth day.

List some of the things God made on the fifth day: ____________________ ____________________ ___________________ ____________________.

7. On the Sixth Day of Creation God Created Land Animals and Mankind.

Genesis 1:24-25 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living ________________ after their kind: cattle and ______________ things and beasts of the earth after their kind "; and it was so. [25] God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and __________________ that creeps on the __________ after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our ______________; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every ______________ thing that creeps on the earth." [27] God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. [28] God ____________ them; and God said to them, "Be ______________ and ______________, and fill the earth, and __________ it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every __________ thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:29-31 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the ____________ of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; [30] and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that _________ on the earth which has life, I have given every _________ plant for food "; and it was so. [31] God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was ____________ and there was ____________, the _________ day.

God told man and woman what they should eat. He also said what the animals would eat.

What did God say about the things he had created? ___________________________________________________.

8. After the Six Days of Creation God Then Set Aside a Special Day to Be Remembered at the End of Every Week.

Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. [2] By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. [3] Then God ____________ the seventh day and __________________ it, ____________ in it He rested from all His work which God had ____________ and made.

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