At commencement the gods conjured up the skies and the land. The land was shapeless Tehowm (a sea goddess), and on Tehowm's face was darkness. The breath of the gods incubated over the Waters' (Tehowm's) face. The gods said, "Light, exist!" and light existed.
The gods saw that the light was good, and the gods divided the light from the darkness. The gods called the light Day (yowm), and the darkness Night (liylah). And the nighttime and the daytime constituted the first day.
The gods said, "Let there be a solid dome in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." So the gods made the dome, and divided the waters under the dome from the waters above the dome. And thus it was.
The gods called the solid dome Skies. And the nighttime and the daytime consituted the second day.
The gods said, "Let the waters under the skies be gathered together into one place [i.e., the Mediterranean], and let dryness appear." And thus it was. The gods called the dryness Land, and the gathered waters Seas. And the gods saw that it was good. The gods said, "Let the land give birth to grass, seed grain and fruit trees, each bearing its own kind of seeds upon the land." And thus it was. Then land gave birth to grass and seed grain and fruit trees, each bearing its own kind of seeds upon the land. The gods saw that it was good. And the nighttime and the daytime constituted the third day.
The gods said, "Let the lights be attached to the dome of the skies to divide the day from the night, and let them serve for signs [horoscopes] and seasons and days and years. Let them function as lights on the dome of the skies." And thus it was.
The gods made two powerful lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, as well as the stars.
The gods attached them to the dome of the skies to give light upon the land and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. The gods saw that it was good. And the nighttime and the daytime constituted the fourth day. The gods said, "Let the waters breathe life in plenty into the living creature that has life, and let birds fly above the land inside the open dome of the skies." The gods conjured up enormous seas serpents. The waters gave birth profusely, bearing every living creature that moves, each of its own kind. And the gods saw that it was good.
The gods blessed them and said, "Be fertile and increase in numbers and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds increase in numbers upon the land."
And the nighttime and the daytime constituted the fifth day.
The gods said, "Let the land breathe life into the living creatures of every kind, livestock and reptiles and wild animals, each of its own kind." And thus it was. The gods fashioned the wild animals, each of its own kind, and livestock, each of its own kind. And the gods saw that it was good. The gods said, "Let us make human in our own shape, like one of us. Let them have rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and the livestock and over all the land and over every reptile that creeps upon the land."
The (male and female) gods conjured up the human in their own shape. In the shape of the gods they conjured them up. Prong [zobar] and tunnel [nukivah] they conjured them. The gods blessed them: "Be fertile and increase in numbers and fill the land and pacify it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every living thing that moves on the land." The gods added, "Look, we're giving you every grain-bearing plant on the surface of the land, and every tree with fruit and seed. It's to be your food. Every green plant is to be food for every animal of the land, every bird of the air and every reptile, for every living thing." And thus it was. The gods looked at everything they had made, and they saw that it was good. And the nighttime and the daytime constituted the sixth day.
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The above is copyrighted, and is looking for a publisher. William Harwood has translated the entire bible, Old and New Testaments, in the same manner. Further snippets could be made available. I have the "Hexateuch" (Pentateuch plus Joshua) and the Gospels.
-- To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist--all this is but the beginning of wisdom.--Robert G. Ingersoll / Greg Erwin, VP, Humanist Association of Canada