Verse List for GEN 1:1

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B I Gen 1:1 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=vital Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) In the beginning, God[fn] created the heavens and the earth.

OET-LV In_beginning god he _created DOM the_heavens and_DOM the_earth/land.

ULT In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

UST This is how everything began: God created the heavens and the earth.

BSB & MSB In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

OEB In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,

CSB In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

NLT In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

NIV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

CEV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

ESV In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

NASB In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

LSB In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

1ST At the beginning of God’s creating the heavens and the earth,

WEBBE & WMBB In the beginning, God[fn] created the heavens and the earth.

MSG Heaven and Earth (1-2) First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

NET In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

LSV In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth,

FBV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

T4T Long, long ago God created the heavens and the earth.

LEB In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth—

NRSV In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,

NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

TLB WHEN GOD BEGAN creating^† the heavens and the earth,

NAB In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth —

BBE At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

Moff No Moff GEN book available

JPS IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

ASV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

DRA In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

YLT In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth —

Drby In the beginning [fn]God created the heavens and the earth.

RV In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

SLT In the beginning God formed the heavens and the earth.

Wbstr In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

KJB-1769 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

KJB-1611 ¶ In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.
(In the beginning GOD created ye/you_all heaven and the earth.)

Gnva In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Cvdl In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:
(In ye/you_all beginning God created heaven and earth:)

Wycl In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe.
(In the beginning God made of naught/nothing heaven and earth.)

Luth Am Anfang schuf GOtt Himmel und Erde.
(At_the beginning created God heaven and earth/land/ground.)

ClVg In principio creavit Deus cælum et terram.[fn]
(In at_the_beginning created God the_sky and the_earth/land.)

UHB בְּ⁠רֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַ⁠שָּׁמַ֖יִם וְ⁠אֵ֥ת הָ⁠אָֽרֶץ׃ ‡

BrLXX ἘΝ ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.

BrTr In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

NETS In the beginning God made the sky and the earth.