Genesis 1:2World English Bible
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, GodThe Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.