Here is Genesis 1 from my translation of The Torah in the 1st century Aramaic Bible called the Peshitta. The manuscript translated is Codex Ambrosianus (circa AD 60, the world's oldest complete Semitic Old Testament Bible:

Gen 1:1-31 (HPBT) In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. 2 The Earth was chaos and empty and darkness on the faces of the depths and the Spirit of God hovered on the faces of the waters. 3 And God said, “The light shall be”, and the light was. 4 And God saw the light that it is beautiful and God separated between the light unto the darkness. 5 And God called the light the day, and the darkness he called the night, and it was evening and it was dawn, day one. 6 And God said, “The sky shall be in the middle of the waters, and will be separating between the waters unto the waters.” 7 And God made the firmament, and it separated between the waters lower than the sky and between the waters that were higher than the sky, and it was in this way. 8 And God called the sky, Heaven; and it was evening and it was dawn, day second. 9 And God said, “The waters shall be gathered that are lower than Heaven to one region, and the dried land shall appear”, and it was in this way. 10 And God called the dried land, Earth, and the assembly of waters he called, the Seas, and God saw that it was excellent. 11 And God said, “The Earth shall bring forth new grass, grass that seeds seed for its kind, and the tree of fruit that makes fruit for its kind, of its planting inside it on the Earth”, and it was in this way. 12 And the Earth brought out new grass, grass that seeds the seed for its kind, and the tree that makes the fruit of its planting inside it, for its kind, and God saw that it was pleasing. 13 And it was evening, and it was dawn, day third. 14 And God said, “Lights shall be in the firmament of Heaven to distinguish between daytime and night and they shall be for signs and for times and for days and for years: 15 And they shall be giving light in the firmament of Heaven to give light on the Earth”, and it was in this way. 16 And God made two great lights: a great light for a ruler of daytime, and one little light for a ruler of the night, and the stars. 17 And God gave them in the firmament of Heaven to give light on the Earth, 18 And to rule by day and by night and to separate between the light unto the darkness, and God saw that it was good. 19 And it was evening, and it was dawn, day fourth. 20 And God said, “Swarmers shall swarm the waters, the living soul, and the bird will fly above the Earth, above the face of the firmament of Heaven.” 21 And God created the great Dragon and every living soul, swarmers that made the waters swarm with their kinds, and every bird of the wing with its kind, and God saw that it was beautiful. 22 And God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters that are in the Seas, and the bird will increase in the earth.” 23 And it was evening, and it was dawn, day fifth. 24 And God said, “The Earth shall produce the living soul with its genus, beast, and creepers, and the beast of the Earth with its kind”, and it was in this way. 25 And God made the animal of the Earth with its genus, and the cattle with its genus, and every creeper of the Earth with its kind, and God saw that it was excellent. 26 And God said, “We shall make men in our image, according to our form, and they shall rule among the fish of the Sea, and among the birds of Heaven, and among cattle, and among all animals of the Earth, and among all creepers that creep on the Earth.” 27 And God created Adam in his image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 And God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the Earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the Sea, and over the fowl of Heaven, and over cattle, and over all animals that creep on the Earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given to you all grass of the seed that bears seed on the face of all the Earth, and every tree that has in itself the fruit of the tree, of its seed, bearing seed; you shall have it for food. 30 And every animal of the wilderness and every bird of Heaven and for everything that swarms on the Earth that has in it the living soul and all green grass for food”, and it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very pleasing, and it was evening and it was dawn, the sixth day.

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Articles by Pastor, author and translator Dave Bauscher devoted to the research and study of the ancient Aramaic Bible called the Peshitta. Dave has translated the entire 66 book canon of Old and New Testaments and published the translation in one volume: The Holy Peshitta Bible Translated, as well as seperate editions of the Old and New Testaments with thousands of NT notes demonstrating that the Peshitta NT is the 1st century original from of which the Greek NT is a 1st century translation. Dave has written 8 editions of the NT translation, and three of the OT, as well as several other books on the subject. His web site is aramaicnt.com and his bookstore on Lulu can be viewed here: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/gbauscher

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