²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²³ I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

¹ God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.