In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth … This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. (Gen 1:1; 2:4) The account of creation in the book of Genesis takes center stage in the Bible and is recorded as a matter of proto-history. Similar accounts of creation, though without the central position given in the Bible, were also recorded
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