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Genesis 1:1-2
The Message
Genesis 1:1-2
The Message
Heaven and Earth
1 1-2 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
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Genesis 1:1
Common English Bible
Genesis 1:1
Common English Bible
World’s creation in seven days
1 When God began to create[a] the heavens and the earth—
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- Genesis 1:1 Or In the beginning, God created
Genesis 1:1
New Living Translation
Genesis 1:1
New Living Translation
The Account of Creation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[a]
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- 1:1 Or In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, . . . Or When God began to create the heavens and the earth, . . .
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
Common English Bible (CEB)
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New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.