Genesis 1:1-2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

1 In the beginning when God created^[a] the heavens and the earth, ²the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God^[b] swept over the face of the waters.

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Genesis 1:1 Or when God began to create or In the beginning God created
Genesis 1:2 Or while the spirit of God or while a mighty wind

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