♰ St. Mark Coptic Church Sunday School 11th Grade Lesson 2 The Drama of Creation Left 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; Right 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. Left 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. Right 4 The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Left 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. Right 6 For the way of the righteous, the LORD knows But the way of the ungodly shall perish. The Drama of Creation CHARACTERS Narrator 1,2,3 WORD OF GOD ADAM - - - - FIRST DAY - - - - Narrator 1 1 In the beginning God [THE FATHER] created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. Narrator 2 And the SPIRIT OF GOD was hovering over the face of the waters. Narrator 3 3 Then God SAID [THE WORD], WORD OF GOD “Let there be light”; Narrator and there was light. Narrator 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; Narrator And God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. Narrator So the evening and the morning were the first day. - - - - SECOND DAY - - - - Narrator 6 Then God said, WORD OF GOD “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Narrator 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; Narrator and it was so. Narrator 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. Narrator So the evening and the morning were the second day. - - - - THIRD DAY - - - - Narrator 9 Then God said, WORD OF GOD “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; Narrator and it was so. Narrator 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. Narrator And God saw that it was good. Narrator 11 Then God said, Narrator “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; Narrator and it was so. Narrator 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. Narrator And God saw that it was good. Narrator 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day. - - - - FOURTH DAY - - - - Narrator 14 Then God said, WORD OF GOD “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; Narrator and it was so. Narrator 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. Narrator 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. Narrator And God saw that it was good. Narrator 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. - - - - FIFTH DAY - - - - Narrator 20 Then God said, Narrator “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” Narrator 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. Narrator And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, WORD OF GOD “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” Narrator 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. - - - - SIXTH DAY - - - - Narrator 24 Then God said, Narrator “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; Narrator and it was so. Narrator 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. Narrator And God saw that it was good. Narrator 26 Then God said, WORD OF GOD “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Narrator 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, WORD OF GOD “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Narrator 29 And God said, WORD OF GOD “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; Narrator and it was so. Narrator 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. Narrator So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. - - - - SEVENTH DAY - - - - Narrator 1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. Narrator 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Narrator 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. ANAPHORA Narrator 4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. Narrator For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Narrator 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Narrator 8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. Narrator 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. Narrator The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Narrator 10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. Narrator 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. Narrator 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. Narrator 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. Narrator The fourth river is the Euphrates. Narrator 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. Narrator 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, WORD OF GOD “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Narrator 18 And the LORD God said, Narrator “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Narrator 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. Narrator But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. Narrator 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Narrator 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: ADAM “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” Narrator 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Narrator 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.