The History of Creation^(A)

1 In the ^(B)beginning ^(C)God created the heavens and the earth.

^3 (A)All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

¹⁷ (as it is written, ^(A)“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, ^(B)who gives life to the dead and calls those ^(C)things which do not exist as though they did;

²⁸ and the ^[a]base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,