Refrain—And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning: a third day.
FOURTH STROPHE.
And God said, Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to divide the day from the night;
And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years;
And let them be for light-bearers in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon the earth:
And it was so.
And God made the two great luminaries;
The greater luminary to rule the day;
The lesser luminary to rule the night.
He made the stars lights also;
And God appointed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and night,
And to divide the light from the darkness.
Refrain—And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning: a fourth day.
FIFTH STROPHE.
And God said, Let the waters swarm forth swarming things, living souls;[193]
And let birds fly upon the land upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.
And God created great leviathans,
And all living souls that creep, which the waters swarmed forth after their kind;
And all birds of wing after their kind.
Refrain—And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying:
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea;
And let the birds multiply in the land.
And there was evening and there was morning: a fifth day.