Genesis 1:2

Genesis chapter 1 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

King James Version · 1611

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.

American Standard Version · 1901

And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

v.1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

v.2This passage

v.3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Psalms 33:6
By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
Psalms 104:30
Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.
Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Job 26:14
Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?