God Created the Heavens and the Earth - A Bible Story Based on Genesis 1:1-2:2

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A children’s Bible story retelling Genesis 1:1-2:2, describing how God creates the heavens and the earth from an empty, dark beginning. The narrative follows each creation step—light, sky, land and seas, vegetation, and the lights in the sky—culminating in the first days marked by evening and morning. It emphasizes God’s words as the source of creation and highlights that each stage is “good.”

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages17

Reading Time26 min

Creation of Light

Day 1

Creation of the Sky

Day 2

Gathering Waters and Appearing Land

Day 3

Vegetation and Fruit Trees

Day 3

Lights in the Expanse of the Sky

Day 4

God Created the Heavens and the Earth English Bible God Created the Heavens and the Earth A Bible story based on Genesis 1:1-2:2 Images by Marleen Visser, © 2025 Little Zebra Books. CC BY-SA 4.0. English Beautiful books for children in African languages Copyright © 2026, Little Zebra Books [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) You are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. NET Bible® © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. God said,“Let there be light.” And there was light! God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.”There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day. God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water. So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so. God called the expanse “sky.”There was evening, and there was morning, a second day. God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.”It was so. God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good. God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so. The land produced vegetation – plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. There was evening, and there was morning, a third day. God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years, and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so. God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also. God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.

FAQs

Where does the story come from?

The story is based on Genesis 1:1-2:2.

What does the narrative say God created first?

God created light first, separating the light from the darkness.

How is the creation days structure shown in the story?

Each day is marked by evening and morning, counting as the first day, second day, third day, and fourth day.

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