Genesis 1:2

World English Bible (2000)

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:23 : 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
  • Ps 104:30 : 30 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:1
    90%

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

  • Gen 1:3-10
    8 verses
    85%

    3God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

    4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

    5God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

    6God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

    8God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    9God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

    10God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

  • Jer 4:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

    24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

  • John 1:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

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

    2The same was in the beginning with God.

    3All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

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

    5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

  • Gen 1:13-24
    12 verses
    76%

    13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

    14God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

    15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

    16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

    17God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

    18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

    19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

    21God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

    23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

  • Gen 2:4-7
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    75%

    4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

    5No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

    6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

    7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

    6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • Gen 2:1
    73%

    1The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  • Prov 8:26
    70%

    26while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

  • Heb 1:10
    70%

    10And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

  • Gen 6:11
    69%

    11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

  • Gen 11:1
    69%

    1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

  • Job 10:22
    69%

    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • John 1:10
    69%

    10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

  • Gen 7:18
    68%

    18The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 2:19
    68%

    19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

  • Heb 1:1
    68%

    1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    68%

    12He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ezek 1:20
    68%

    20Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

  • Gen 7:10
    68%

    10It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.