1 In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram. 2 Terra autem erat inanis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssi : et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas. 3 Dixitque Deus : Fiat lux. Et facta est lux 4 Et vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona : et divisit lucem a tenebris. 5 Appellavitque lucem Diem, et tenebras Noctem : factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus.
1 In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. 2 And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. 3 And God said: Be light made. And light was made. 4 And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. 5 And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
Genesis 1:1–5 (Vulgate; Douay-Rheims)