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Genesis 1:2

Forsothe the erthe was idel and voide, and derknessis weren on the face of depthe; and the Spiryt of the Lord was borun on the watris.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe.

3And God seide, Liyt be maad, and liyt was maad.

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Cross References

Job 26:14Lo! these thingis ben seid in partie of `hise weyes; and whanne we han herd vnnethis a litil drope of his word, who may se the thundur of his greetnesse?

Psalms 33:6Neiye ye to him, and be ye liytned; and youre faces schulen not be schent.

Psalms 104:30And the lond of hem yaf paddoks; in the priue places of the kyngis of hem.

Isaiah 45:18For whi the Lord makynge heuenes of nouyt, seith these thingis; he is God fourmynge erthe, and makinge it, he is the makere therof; he made it of noyt, not in veyn, but he formyde it, that it be enhabitid; Y am the Lord, and noon other is.

Nahum 2:10It is distried, and kit, and to-rent, and herte failynge, and vnknyttinge of smale knees, and failynge in alle reynes; and the face of alle ben as blacnesse of a pot.

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