Long ago, God created the world. The earth was dark. The sky was empty and black. But God’s Spirit looked over the world. He had a wonderful plan!
When God spoke, the heavens appeared. He blessed the earth with beauty. God shaped the high mountains, He filled the lakes with cool water, He made the soft grass, fresh fruit, and the beautiful, fragrant flowers. God made the sun shine in the day and the stars shine at night.
God created fish to splash and swim in the seas and birds to sing and fly through the air. Then He filled the earth with animals: Some that crawl and creep. Some that jump and leap. God said, “Let us make someone to care for this wonderful world!”
God formed a man from dirt and breathed life into him. He named the man Adam. Then He also formed a woman to help Adam. Her name was Eve. God placed them in a beautiful garden called Eden.
In six days, God made everything. He saw that it was all good. On the seventh day, He rested from all His work.
- Who created the world?
- What were the names of the man and the woman God created?
| long ago | གནའ་སྔ་མོ་ཞིག་ | 很久以前 | |
| God | བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་དཀོན་མཆོག་ | 上帝 | |
| created | v. (p) | བསྐྲུན་པ་ | 创造 |
| world | n. | འཇིག་རྟེན་ | 世界 |
| the earth | n. | ས་གཞི་ | 大地 |
| dark | adj. | མུན་ནག་ | 黑暗 |
| sky | n. | ནམ་མཁའ་ | 天空 |
| empty | adj. | སྟོང་པ་ | 荡荡的 |
| looked | v. (p) | གཟིགས་ hon. | |
| wonderful | adj. | ངོ་མཚར་ | 奇妙 |
| plan | n. | འཆར་གཞི་ | 计划 |
| spoke | v. (p) | བཀའ་ཞིག་གནང་ | 说了 |
| appeared | v. (p) | ཆགས་པ་ | 造成了 created, caused |
| blessed | v. (p) | བཀའ་ཕབ་ ordered | 赐福 |
| the earth | n. | ས་ཞིང་ farmland | 土地 land |
| beauty | n. | མཛེས་སྡུག་ལྡན་པ་ beautiful | 美好 beautiful |
| mountains | n. | རི་ཀླུང་ mountains and valleys | 高山峻岭 mountain range |
| filled | v. (p) | བླུགས་ poured | 注 |
| lake | n. | རྫིང་བུ་ pond | 湖泊 |
| cool water | adj., n. | དྭངས་གཙང་གི་ཆུ་ | 清凉的水 |
| soft grass | adj., n. | སྙི་འཇམ་ལྡན་པའི་རྩྭ་ | 软的小草 |
| fruit | n. | ཤིང་ཏོག་ | 水果 |
| fragrant flowers | adj., n. | དྲི་ཞིམ་གྱི་མེ་ཏོག་ | 芳香的花朵 |
| made | v. (p) | མཛད་ hon. | 让 make, let |
| sun shine | n., v. | ཉི་འོད་འཕྲོ་ | 太阳 照亮 Sun… illuminate, light up |
| in the day | ཉིན་མོ་ daytime | 白天 | |
| stars | n. | སྐར་ཚོགས་ a cluster of stars | 星星 |
| shine | v. | འཕྲོ་ | 闪耀 shine, glitter |
| night | n. | མཚན་མོ་ | 晚上 |
| fish | n. | ཉ་ | 鱼 |
| splash | v. | འཁྱུག་ dart through water | 跳跃畅游 leap, jump; have a good swim |
| seas | n. | རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | 海 |
| birds | n. | བྱ་བྱེའུ་ | 小鸟 |
| sing | v. | སྙན་པའི་གླུ་དབྱངས་ལེན་ sing pleasant songs | 歌唱 |
| fly through the air | བར་སྣང་དུ་འཕུར་ལྡིང་བྱེད་ | 在空中飞 | |
| animals | n. | སྲོག་ཆགས་ | 动物 |
| filled | v. (p) | ཁྱབ་པར་ spread, all over | 布满 be everywhere |
| crawl | v. | དལ་མོའི་ངང་གོག་འགྲོས་ crawl or creep slowly | 爬行 |
| jump | v. | ལྡིང་འགྲོ་ཤེས་ | 蹦蹦跳跳 |
| make | v. | བཟོས་ | 造 |
| care for | v. | ལྟ་སྐྱོང་བྱེད་ | 管理 |
| wonderful | adj. | ངོ་མཚར་ཅན་ | 奇妙 |
| formed | v. (p) | མཛད་པ་ | 造了 made |
| dirt | n. | འདམ་བག་ mud | 泥 mud, clay |
| breathed life | v., n. | ཚེ་སྲོག་དང་དབུགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་བ་སྟེར་ | 生命的气 赐给了 |
| named | v. (p) | མིང་ལ་་་ཞེས་བཏགས་ | 叫做 |
| woman | n. | བུད་མེད་ | 女人 |
| beautiful | adj. | མཛེས་སྡུག་ལྡན་པ་ | 美丽的 |
| garden | n. | ལྡུམ་ར་ | 伊甸园 Garden of Eden |
| in six days | ཉིན་དྲུག་གི་རིང་ལ་ | 在六天内 | |
| good | adj. | ལེགས་པ་ | 好 |
| rested | v. (p) | ངལ་གསོ་གནང་ | 休息 |
| all | ཐམས་ཅད་ | 所有的 | |
| work | n. | ཕྱག་ལས་ | 工作 |