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The Beginning [01-01]

This is how the beginning of everything happened. God created the universe and everything in it in six days. After God created the earth it was dark and empty, and nothing had been formed in it. But God's Spirit was there over the water.

万物开始的生成是这样的。神在六天内创造了宇宙和万物。起初，大地是黑暗和空虚，大地还是混沌空虚。但神的灵在水面上运行。

Important Terms:

* __[God](https://git.door43.org/Door43/en-tw/src/master/content/kt/God.md)__
* __[HolySpirit](https://git.door43.org/Door43/en-tw/src/master/content/kt/HolySpirit.md)__ 

Translation Notes:

* __the beginning__  - That is, "the beginning of all things," before anything existed except God.
* __created__  - This is used here in the sense of making something out of nothing.
* __universe__  - This includes everything that God created on the earth and in the heavens, both visible and invisible things.
* __dark__  - It was completely dark. There was no light at all, since God had not yet created light.
* __empty__  - God had not yet created anything except for the bare earth covered by water.
* __nothing had been formed__  - There were no distinguishing features–just water covering everything.
* __God's Spirit__  - 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.