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Bible in Basic English

At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

New American Standard Bible

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

King James Version

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Holman Bible

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

International Standard Version

In the beginning, God created the universe.

A Conservative Version

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

American Standard Version

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Amplified

In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

Darby Translation

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Julia Smith Translation

In the beginning God formed the heavens and the earth.

King James 2000

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth--

Modern King James verseion

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

NET Bible

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

New Heart English Bible

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

World English Bible

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In the beginning
ראשׁית 
Re'shiyth 
Usage: 51

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54

the heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and
את 
'eth 
Usage: 1

Devotionals

Devotionals about Genesis 1:1

Devotionals containing Genesis 1:1

Images Genesis 1:1

Prayers for Genesis 1:1

Context Readings

The Creation

1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth. 2 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.


Cross References

Isaiah 45:18

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.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

Revelation 4:11

It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.

Isaiah 42:5

God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

John 1:1-3

From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

Hebrews 1:10

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

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

1 Corinthians 8:6

There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

Psalm 115:15

May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 136:5

To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

Acts 14:15

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

Colossians 1:16-17

For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

Nehemiah 9:6

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

Job 26:13

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 104:30

If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

Psalm 146:6

Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

Psalm 148:4-5

Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

Proverbs 3:19

The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.

Proverbs 8:22-30

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

Isaiah 37:16

O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 40:26

Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

Isaiah 40:28

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

Isaiah 51:13

And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

Isaiah 51:16

And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.

Jeremiah 10:12

He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

Jeremiah 32:17

Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:

Jeremiah 51:15

He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

Zechariah 12:1

The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

Mark 13:19

For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.

Acts 4:24

And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:

Romans 1:19-20

Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

Romans 11:36

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.

Ephesians 3:9

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

Hebrews 1:2

But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

Hebrews 3:4

For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

2 Peter 3:5

But 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;

1 John 1:1

That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

Revelation 3:14

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:

Revelation 10:6

And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more waiting:

Revelation 14:7

Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.

Revelation 21:6

And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.

Revelation 22:13

I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.

Exodus 31:18

And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

1 Chronicles 16:26

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 8:3

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

Psalm 33:9

For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

Psalm 89:11-12

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

Psalm 96:5

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 104:24

O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

Isaiah 65:17

For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

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