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Creation
Summary: Comparing historical creations in the Bible.
Genesis 2: 4-25 covers the second of creation, I say the second story because in Genesis 1: 1-28 there is another account of creation to refer to. The creation story in Chapter 1 differs in format to the story in Chapter 2, but they cover all the main details of creation.
In Chapter 1 the story of creation is broken up into days and on each day, seven total, God created something in particular. On the first day Chapter 1 reads," In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters." This is quite similar to the second story of creation in Chapter 2 which starts off, "At the time when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens--while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field...
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