“God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 1 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.