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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: Earth was without form, and void. |
Bible Note: Tim, the "bad choice" of the word "replenish" in the King James Bible is no error of the translators and it is, in fact, not a bad choice at all. The fault lies, not in the KJV translators, but in ourselves, that we assume, wrongly, the word "replenish" to mean to refill or put back something that was there before, when such is not the case nor ever has been. The word "replenish" has been in the English lexicon since the fourteenth century and it meant then, and means still, simply to fill. The first definition given in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is as follows: "To fill with persons or animals." The Collegiate gives a second definition, which is "to fill or build up again." It is the acceptance of this second definition and the ignorance of the first that has given rise to much confusion and largely upon which an outlandish idea of a pre-Adamic race has been advanced. --Hank |