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The Beginning of the World

·In the beginning [or In the beginning when] God created [C this Hebrew verb is used only when God is the one creating] the ·sky [heavens] and the earth.

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The Account of Creation

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 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, . . .

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

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The Beginning of the World

In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.

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