In the Beginning
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In the beginning…
God created heaven and earth,
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And there the spirit of God
did upon the face of the waters keep
“Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed and fruit yielding tree”.
And He made two great lights -
the greater as the day for all to see
And behold, God created the stars
and hung them in the firmament so bright.
To divide light from darkness
and shine the heavens in the night
God said “let the earth bring forth
man in His own image, of his own free mind”.
And gave of man dominion over
every living creature after his kind
There went up a mist from the earth
and watered the whole face of the ground.
And God formed man of the dust
that a breathing living soul abound
And The Lord God planted a garden
to put man whom He had formed there by,
and ruled of every tree he freely eat
but for one lest he shalt surely die
God caused Adam a deep sleep
and took of him a rib and made He woman.
Said Adam “now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh is now begun”
And God decreed “I will put enmity
between thee and the woman for your sins,
between thy seed and her seed” -
so is the genesis of man’s origins
Adam and Eve, his wife, bear Cain,
and she again bear Abel, a brother to be.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep
but Cain, a tiller of ground was he
Yet Cain brought of the ground
fruit in offering unto The Lord God above,
And Abel brought of his flock
firstling sheep and the fat thereof
But God did not favour unto Cain,
and thus Cain was wroth and slew Abel -
a fugitive and a vagabond
driven out of The Lord’s table!
Written: September 2010
From the Book of Genesis
Copyright © Keith D Trestrail | Year Posted 2022
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