Genesis 1:1 Parallel: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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Modern Translations

New International Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

New Living Translation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

English Standard Version
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Berean Study Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

New American Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

NASB 1995
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

NASB 1977
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Amplified Bible
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Contemporary English Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Good News Translation
In the beginning, when God created the universe,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

International Standard Version
In the beginning, God created the universe.

NET Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Classic Translations

King James Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

New King James Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

King James 2000 Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

New Heart English Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

World English Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

American King James Version
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

American Standard Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

A Faithful Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

English Revised Version
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Early Modern

Geneva Bible of 1587
In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
In the begynnynge God created heaven and erth.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth,

Young's Literal Translation
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

Smith's Literal Translation
In the beginning God formed the heavens and the earth.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

Translations from Aramaic

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.

Lamsa Bible
GOD created the heavens and the earth in the very beginning.

OT Translations

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.