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In the Beginning

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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