In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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The first verse of the Bible gives us a satisfying and useful account of the origin of the earth and the heavens. The faith of humble Christians understands this better than the fancy of the most learned men.
Genesis 1:1 quoted in popular culture
- Inaugural Address
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Inaugural Address · Warren G. Harding · American Presidency Project hit for 3 biblical phrases, including "In the beginning". Excerpt: liberty verified and glorified. In the beginning the Old World scoffed at …
- Apollo 8 Christmas Eve broadcast
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Apollo 8 lunar-orbit broadcast · Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders · From lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew read the opening of Genesis to a global Christmas Eve audience.
- Pool Reports of April 17, 2025
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Pool Reports of April 17, 2025 · Donald J. Trump (2nd Term) · American Presidency Project hit for the phrase "In the beginning". Excerpt: beginning to do it". Meloni: " In the beginning , we were only talking about …
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Adolf Hitler
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- Alexander Pope
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- Allah
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- Augustine of Hippo
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- Boredom
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- Change
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- Chaos
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- Darkness
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- Desire
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- Doubt
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- Earth
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- Francis Bacon
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- Future
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- Genesis
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- Horses
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- India
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: the Equator (1897), Ch. XLIII India had the start of the whole world in the beginning of things. She had the first civilization; she had the first accumulation
- Isaac Newton
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- Japan
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- John Stuart Mill
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- Julius Evola
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- King James Version
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- Laozi
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- Logos
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- Mark Twain
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- Metaphors
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- Moment
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: an end to the old world and to begin a new world. Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947) The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall
- Muhammad
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- New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: published more than 165 million copies of the Bible in 87 languages. In [ the ] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 Later on the king
- Nothingness
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- Passion
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun (『元始、女性は太陽であった』, Genshi, josei wa taiyō de atta), first published 1971-1973; translated by Teruko Craig in In the Beginning
- Pleasure
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto X, Stanza 60. In the beginning the body causes difficulties because it claims its rights without realizing
- Poets
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: translated from Yiddish by Shirley Kumove (2017) Poets and priests were one in the beginning , and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always
- Property
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- Quran
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: scripture of Islam, written in Arabic language and revealed to Muhammad in the beginning of the seventh century. It consists of 114 chapters covering many different
- Tanakh
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃ Genesis 1:1 (MT) Translations: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. KJV translation When God began
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Universe
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: of time. Aristotle, On the Heavens, bk. II (tr. J. L. Stocks, 1908) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry
- Water
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- Wisdom
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: substance; and I will fill their treasures. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting
- Women
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Wikiquote match for "In the beginning" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "In the beginning". Snippet: of the spirits. Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982) In the beginning , said a Persian poet—Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent,