In the beginning.........


— GENESIS 1:1–2

 
 
 

 

GENESIS

4Q Genesisg

Date: 100–1 bce, Late Hasmonean Period 
Language: Hebrew

Among the oldest known copies of Genesis, the fragment of the Scroll shown here contains the description of the first three days of the creation of the world.

 

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”