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——~ R. CRUMB, Jan., 2009Chapter 4
AC HEN Gop BEGAN To
a CREATE HEAVEN AND
EARTH, THE EARTH
WAS THEN WITHOUT FORM,
AND VOID, AND DARKNESS
WAS OVER THE DEEP, AND
GOb's BREATH HOVERING
OVER THE WATERS.Aso Goo sain, "Ler THERE BEA VAULT IN THE
MIDST OF THE WATERS, AND UBT IT DIVIDE
WATER FROM WATERY AND GoD MADE THE VAULT
AND (9 DIVIDED THE WATER BENEATH 'THE VAULT
FROM THE WATER ABOVE THE VAULT, AND SO IT
WAS. AND Go CALLED THE VAUUT HEAVENS, AND,
TP WAS BVENING AND IT WAS MORNING, A SECOND
DAY.
Awo Goo gaio,"LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH
GRASS, PLANTS VIELDING SEED OF BACH HIND,
AND ‘TREES BEARING FRUIT OF BACH KIND, THAT
HAS VTS SEED WITHIN IT UPON THE EARTH” AND’
SOIT WAS.
Axo Gop saw tHe iGut, THAT IT WAS Goo,
AND Gob DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS |
‘AND GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAV, AND THE DARK
NESS He CALLED NIGHT. AND 1? WAS EVENING
AND IT WAS MORNING, A FIRS? DAY.
Anp Gob snip, “LET THE WATERS UNDER THE
HEAVENS BE GATHERED IN ONE PLACE $o THAT
‘THE DRY LAND WILL APPSAR” AND SO 17 WAS.
AND Gop CALLED THE DRY LAND AND
‘THE GATHERING OF WATERS HE CALLED SEAS,
AND GoD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.
AND THE BARTH PUT FORTH GRASS, PLANTS:
YIEUDING SEED OF EACH KIND, AND TREES
BEARING FRUIT THA? HAS ITS SEED WITHIN
TT OF EACH KIND, AND GoD SAW THAT IT
WAS GooD, AND IT WAS EVENING AND IT
WAS MORNING, A THIRD DAY.Ano Goo saip,“LeT Tuere be Lisets | Axo Goo mane Te two Grea LIGHTS,
BOE UUL A cee ior tin,| Os comers Ommere nay
TRE DAY FROM THE NIGHT, AND LE” aT
BEFOR SIGNS FOR THE FIXED TIMES AND | NIGHT AND THE STARS.
"OR DAYS AND YEARS, a 5
FoR DAYS , AND THEY GHALL DE.
LIGHTS IN TRE VAULT OP THE HEAVENS TO
GIVE LIGHT UPON THE EARTH.” ANDSOIT
IAS. -
‘ a
Mb
Va
oT THE WATERS BRING | AND GoD BLESSED THEM, SAVING, “BE FRUIT-
IVING CREATURES AND FUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THB WATER IN;
‘BIRDS THAT FLY OVER. THE EARTH ACROSS THE) THE SEAS AND LET THE BIRDS MULTIDLY IN
VAULT OF THE HEAVENS.” AND Gop CREATED | THB Ei
Awp Goo sap, “ue
FORTH SWARMS OP Lil
SARTH.” AND IT WAS EVENING AND IT
THE GREAT SEA MONSTERS, AND EVERY | WAS MORNING, A FIFTH DAv.
‘CREATURE THAT Ci
LIVING:
WATER HAD BROUGHT FORTH IN SWARMS,
AND ALL THE WINGED BIRDS OF EVERY KIND,
AND Gob SAW THAT I? WAS GOOD.Ano Gop CREATED MAN INHis OWN IMAGE,
IN THE IMAGE OF Gop He CREATED HIM,
E AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.
SEA.
‘THE CATTLE, AND OVER THE EARTH, AND OVER,
EVERY CRAWLING THING THAT CRAWLS UPON
‘THE EARTH.” pe : ’
Anv Gop BLESSED THEM, AnD Gop SAID [ Avo Gop sa... } :
FO PREM “5 GE FRUITFOL AND MOLTIDLY BEHOLD, I GIVE YOU EVERY
AND FILL THE GARTH AND MASTER 5( SEED-BEARING PLANT ON THE FACE
IT AND HAVE DOMINION OVER (OF ALL. THE EARTH AND EVERY TREE
‘THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND OVER "THAT HAS FRUIT-BEARING SEED,
THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS =ya|_ Yours Ti
AND Ever Beasr THAT y—{ Fea rom Foods a OE
CRAWLS UPON THE
EARTH,Ano 1s Lorp Gop PLANTeDA
(GARDEN DN BDEN, TO THE EAST, AND
"THERE HEPUT THE MAN WHOM HE
{HAD FORMED. AND OUT OF THE
GROUND THE LorD Gop cAUSED
"TO GROW BVERY TREE THAD WAS
PLEASING TO THE SIGHT AND if
GOOD FOR FOOD, WITH THE TREE
OF LiFe IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
SZ
‘A aiver RUNS OUT OF Boen 10 [AnD
WATER THe GARDEN, AND IT
WATER THe GEN Osa ) WINDS THROUGH Tis WHOLE LAND | GOES 70 THE BAST OF ASHUR;
"THE ONE THE
STREAMS, ‘THE NAME OF THE FIRST | OF CUSH. AND THE FOURTH RIVER 1S
18 PISHON, THE ONE THAT WINDS: BupHRATES.
‘THROUGH THE WHOLE LANDOF HAV-
bps, WHERE THERE IS GOLD, ‘THE
GOW OF THAT LAND 1S GOOD; EDEL
LLUM 18 THERE, AND LAPIS CAZULL.oem teas
ED FROM ALL
His TASK THAT He
HAD CREATED 10 DO.
On tae pay me Lor Gop ape Barri AND HEAVEN, WHEN NO SHRUB OF THE FIELD was ver ON
EARTH AND NO GRASSES OF THE FIELD HAD VET SPROUTED, BECAUSE THE LORD GOD HAD NOT
SENT RAIN UPON THE BARTH AND THERE, WAS NOMAN To TLL, THE SOTL, BUT WETNESS WOULD WELL
UP FROM THE GROUND TO WATER ALL THE WHOLE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, THEN THE LORD GOD
MAN Front THE DIRD OF THE. GROUND, AND BUEW INTO HIS NOJTRILS THE BREATH OF
LIFE, AND MAN BECAMS A LIVING CREATURE, caCAUSE 1 WAS NAKED,
AND 1 HID,
THE WOMAV wHom You
GAVE To BE WITH ME, SHE
GAVE ME FROM THE
‘TREE, AND I ATE,., _ al
THE SERPENT ¥
BEGUILED ME,
AND I
ON YouR BELLY
SHALL YOU CRAWL
Ano rue Lorp Gop saip
jp ae T WILL TERRIBLY.
SHARPEN YOUR BIRTH
PANGS IN PAIN SHALL,
YOU BEAR CHILDREN /
AND FOR YOUR MAN
SHALL BE YOUR LONGING,
AND HE SHALL RULE
WILL TRAMPLE YOUR OVER YOU?
HEAD, AND YOU WILL
BITE HIS HEEl m7Awp ToApam He sap. -
BECAUSE YOU LISTENED TO THE
Voice OF YOUR WIFE AND ATE
FROM THE TREE OF WHICH T
;MANDED YOU, "YOU SHALLNOT
EAT FROM IT) CURSED BE THE
BECAUSE OF YOUS
GROUND
Austo Apa CALLED HIS
‘WIFE'S NAME EVE, FOR
SHE WAS THE MOTHER.
OF AULT
Ganven oF Et
‘WHIRLING SWOF
YOU, AND YOU SHA}
Asp He prove
7M SORROW YOU SHALL EAT FROM IT
Au
AND
"THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE! THORNS:
THISTLE SHALL IT SPROUT FOR
iLL EAT THE GRASSES
(OF THE FIELD! BY THE SWEAT OF
YOUR BROW SHALL YOU EAT
BREAD, TILL YOU RETURN TO
QL. THE GROUND, FOR FROM.
THERE YOU WERE TAKEN?
FOR DUST YOU
NOW THAT THE MAN
HAS BECONIE LiKE ONE
OF US, KNOWING GOOD
‘TS MAN OUT, AND SET UP BAST OF THE
IDEN THE CHERUBINT AND THE FLAME OF THE
RD TO GUARD THE WAY TOTKE TREE OF LIPE.UIALTER | ee
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CALLED
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\ cuarran ; BARE
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