GENESIS THE STORY OF CREATION Genesis 1:1–2:4(a) Genesis Chapter 1 (with its continuation in the first few verses of Chapter 2) is one of the immortal documents of the religious spirit. It has that strange mixture of simplicity and profundity which is the mark of all great literature. We shall be going on in this commentary to analyse it verse by verse and sometimes word by word in order to try (we can do no more) to fathom some of its depths. But first let us read it over as a whole, let us listen