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Book | Book of Genesis |
Hebrew Bible part | Torah |
Order in the Hebrew part | 1 |
Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
Order in the Christian part | 1 |
Genesis 1:1 is the first verse of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the opening of the Genesis creation narrative.
The Hebrew is as follows:
It can be translated into English in at least three ways:
Genesis 1:1 forms the basis for the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) and some scholars still support this reading,[5] but most scholars agree that on strictly linguistic and exegetical grounds, this is not the preferred option,[6][7][8] and that the authors of Genesis 1, writing around 500–400 BCE, were concerned not with the origins of matter (the material which God formed into the habitable cosmos), but with the fixing of destinies.[2]
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