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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist
The poetic majesty of these words...my comment could not elevate.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Yes, I remember reading those words. Those are the famous words that got the Bible off to a good start. If it had kept up that way, I would have kept reading. Where I lost interest was when it soon got into all the many names of couples and who they "begat".