New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), “Genesis 1:2”
“Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep, and God’s active force was moving about over the surface of the waters.”
The 2013 rendering, with a footnote reading ‘Or “God’s spirit.”’
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Provenance and verification note for New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), Genesis 1:2
Confidence note. Chapter page and footnote block opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026 and read directly. Independent audit, 19 September 2026: this record previously also asserted the 1984 Reference Bible wording and footnote, which are on a different document; that material has been moved to src-nwtv-rbi8-gen-1-2, which carries its own URL.
Corroborated by. src-nwtv-bh-gen-1-2-hebrew, src-nwtv-rbi8-gen-1-2
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-nwtv-nwt2013-gen-1-2