³ By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.

Prologue: Christ, the Eternal Word

⁵ They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.

2 So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.

⁷ Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

²² Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

⁶ Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.”