Genesis 1:2 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved over the waters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Common English Bible

² the earth was without shape or form, it was dark over the deep sea, and God’s wind swept over the waters—

Catholic Public Domain Version

² But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.

English Standard Version 2016

² The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:2 Cross References

Job 26:14

Lo, these things are said in part, of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 26:7

He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Job 38:9

When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Psalm 104:30

Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.

Psalm 104:6

O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

Psalm 136:6

Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

Psalm 148:7

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:

Psalm 33:6

Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

Proverbs 8:24

The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:

Isaiah 31:5

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it, the very maker thereof, he did not create it in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is no other.

Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld the earth, and lo it was void and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.

Nahum 2:10

She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.