Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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Cross references
- Jeremiah 4:23 I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Psalm 104:30 You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
- Isaiah 45:18 For 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 says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.