Genesis 1
Bible in Basic English
1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
5Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
8And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
12And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.