{"reference":"OBS 1:1","language":"en","notes":[{"reference":"1:1","id":"lm48","supportReference":"","quote":"the beginning","occurrence":"1","note":"This could mean ‘the beginning of all things,’ before anything existed except God."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"qyk4","supportReference":"","quote":"created","occurrence":"1","note":"This term here means that God made it from nothing."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"l2hb","supportReference":"","quote":"the universe","occurrence":"1","note":"This includes everything that God created on the earth and in the heavens, both visible and invisible things."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"zd15","supportReference":"","quote":"the earth","occurrence":"1","note":"The word **earth** refers to the whole world that people live on."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"uzic","supportReference":"","quote":"dark","occurrence":"1","note":"It was completely dark. There was no light at all, since God had not yet created light."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"zwj2","supportReference":"","quote":"empty","occurrence":"1","note":"God had not yet created anything except for the bare earth covered by water."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"ffdv","supportReference":"","quote":"he had not yet formed anything in it","occurrence":"1","note":"There were no distinguishing features–just water covering everything."},{"reference":"1:1","id":"lr8g","supportReference":"","quote":"God’s Spirit","occurrence":"1","note":"The Spirit of God, sometimes called the Holy Spirit, was present in the beginning, moving freely over the earth in order to create all that he had planned to do."}]}