Genesis 1:1 is the first Bible verse of the first chapter in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. The verse opens the Genesis creation narrative in Hebrew with: בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָֽרֶץ (Bereishit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz). Translated into English it reads: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). The verse's translation and interpretation are of major theological significance in developing the concept that God created the universe out of nothing (creation ex nihilo).
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“Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 1:29.
But in a later context, God told the disgraced Adam, “and thou shalt eat the herb of the field” (Genesis 3:18)