Genesis 1:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:23 : 23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
  • Ps 104:30 : 30 If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

  • Gen 1:3-10
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    3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

    5Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

    6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

    8And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

  • Jer 4:23-24
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    23Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

    24Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

  • John 1:1-5
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    1From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

    2This Word was from the first in relation with God.

    3All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

    4What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

    5And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

  • Gen 1:13-24
    12 verses
    76%

    13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

    15And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

    17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

    19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

    20And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

    21And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

    22And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

    23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

    24And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
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    4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

    5In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

    6But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

    7And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

    6And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

  • 1And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • 26When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

  • 10You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

  • 11And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

  • 1And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

  • 22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • 10He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.

  • 18And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

  • 19And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

  • 1In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

  • 12And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • 20Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

  • 10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.