Genesis 1:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
  • Ps 104:30 : 30 Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it -- not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: `I `am' Jehovah, and there is none else.

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  • Gen 1:1
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    1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

  • Gen 1:3-10
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    85%

    3and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.

    4And God seeth the light that `it is' good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

    5and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.

    6And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

    7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which `are' under the expanse, and the waters which `are' above the expanse: and it is so.

    8And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.

    9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

    10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that `it is' good.

  • Jer 4:23-24
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    83%

    23I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

    24I have looked `to' the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.

  • John 1:1-5
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    77%

    1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

    2this one was in the beginning with God;

    3all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

    4In him was life, and the life was the light of men,

    5and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

  • Gen 1:13-24
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    76%

    13and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day third.

    14And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

    15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

    16And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

    17and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    18and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that `it is' good;

    19and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fourth.

    20And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

    21And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that `it is' good.

    22And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

    23and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fifth.

    24And God saith, `Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
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    4These `are' births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

    5and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

    6and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

    7And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

    6through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

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    1And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

    27And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

    28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

  • Prov 8:26
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    26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.

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    10and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;

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    11And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled `with' violence.

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    1And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

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    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

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    10in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

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    18and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

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    19And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that `is' its name.

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    1In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

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    12And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.

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    20Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit `is' to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit `is' in the wheels.

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    10And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.