"1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 1:2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

(The first two verses of the book of Genesis, as well as the opening words of the entire Bible and Torah).

The book of Genesis (Hebrew: בראשית? bereshìt, lit. "in the beginning," from the incipit; Greek: Γένεσις, transliterated: ghènesis, lit. "birth," "creation," "origin"; Latin: Genesis), commonly referred to as Genesis (feminine), is the first book of the Torah of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Bible.

Written in Hebrew and divided into fifty chapters, according to the hypothesis most shared by scholars, its final draft, by unknown authors, is placed in the sixth-fifth century BC in Judea, on the basis of previous oral and written traditions.

In the first eleven chapters is described the so-called "biblical prehistory" (creation, original sin, universal flood), and in the remaining chapters the story of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob-Israel and Joseph, whose lives are placed in the near east of the second millennium BC (the dating of the patriarchs, traditional but hypothetical, is around 1800-1700 BC, see History of the Jews).

(From Italian Wikipedia)

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