Genesis 1:1 - Compare All Versions
Genesis 1:1-2 MSG (The Message)
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Genesis 1:1 KJV (King James Version)
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 NCV (New Century Version)
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 ASV (American Standard Version)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 NIV (New International Version)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 NKJV (New King James Version)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 AMP (Amplified Bible)
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3]
Genesis 1:1 NLT (New Living Translation)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 TPT (The Passion Translation)
When God created the heavens and the earth
Genesis 1:1 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.