Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
Hebrew Masoretic Text
בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ׃
Other Greek Versions
Gen 1:1 [Aquila of Sinope (130 AD)]
Ἐν κεφαλαίῳ ἔκτισεν ὁ Θεὸς σὺν τὸν οὐρανὸν (καὶ) σὺν τὴν γῆν.
In principal God created the heaven and the earth.
* σὺν is literal translation of אֵת that should not be translated in English.
Gen 1:1 [Symmachus (2nd century)]
Ἐν ἀρχῇ…
In the beginning…
Gen 1:1 [Theodotion (150 AD)]
Ἐν ἀρχῇ…
In the beginning…
Septuagint Manuscripts
Gen 1:1 [Codex Alexandrinus (A) (5th century)]1c1
Ἐν ἀρχῆ ἐποίησεν ὁ ΘC τὸν οὐρανὸν και τὴν γῆν
Critical Apparatus :
Cambridge LXX Gen 1:1
LXX Editions:
- Robert Holmes (1798)
- Paul Anton de Lagarde (1868)
- Tischendorf-Nestle (1880)
- Henry Barclay Swete (1887)
- Cambridge (Alan England Brooke & Norman McLean) (1906)]