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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Footnotes

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, . . .

Genesis 1:1 in all English translations

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