Six Translations Compared

New King James Version (NKJV)

Genesis 1:1–5

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form, and void: and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Then God said, “Let there be light”: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:26–27

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness: let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’”

So God created man in His own image: in the image of God He created him: male and female He created them.

Genesis 2:4–7

This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth. And there was no man to till the ground;

but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.