In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly and swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.

Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.

O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!

For it was not to angels that God subjected the habitable world of the future, of which we are speaking.