Trinity Sunday
Genesis 1, read by Jennifer Baergen Davis, Pastor of Adult & Family Ministries:
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth. And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so.
Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
So God created humans in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
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