Genesis 1:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

1 In the beginning when God created^[a] the heavens and the earth, ² the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God^[b] swept over the face of the waters. ³ Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.