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American Standard Version "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day." Bible in Basic English "Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day." Darby Bible "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called ...
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. — Genesis 1:2, New International Version [ 2 ] The words tohu and bohu also occur in parallel in Isaiah 34:11 , which the King James Version translates with the words "confusion" and "emptiness".
Genesis 1:1 forms the basis for the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo).Some scholars still support this reading, [5] but most agree that on strictly linguistic and exegetical grounds this is not the preferred option, [6] [7] [8] and that the authors of Genesis 1 were concerned not with the origins of matter (the material which God formed into the habitable ...
Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish the "first day" of creation as falling on a Sunday near the autumnal equinox. [9] The day of the week was a backward calculation from the six days of creation with God resting on the seventh, which in the Jewish calendar is Saturday—hence, Creation began on a Sunday.
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The first and early editions of the King James Bible from 1611 and the first few decades thereafter lack annotations, unlike nearly all editions of the Geneva Bible up until that time. [20] Puritans bringing the Geneva Bible to the New World. Initially, the King James Version did not sell well and competed with the Geneva Bible.