'In', as part of the sentence 'In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.' The first word in the Bible comes from the book of Genesis in the first verse and is "In." It is the start of the well known phrase "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
There are 17 occurrences of the exact phrase "In the beginning" in the KJV starting with the first book of Genesis.Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
There are about 500 references to the phrase, 'but God' in the KJV Bible, and you would have to look through them to pick out those that start with these words.
This depends on the translation. The phrase "in the beginning" appears twenty times in the King James, ten times in the New King James, seventeen times in the Standard translation, and five times in the New International Version.
(Genesis 1:1)In [the] beginning ... God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen:1:1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Nothing. I believe you mean "start over," which just means to start something again from the beginning and do everything another time, hopefully correctly.
To find the oldest story in the Bible would be to start at the very beginning of the first book, Genesis, which starts with the story of Creation. The Bible says that God created the world and the universe in six days, then rested on the seventh day.
The Bible Study Tools website is a good place to start. It provides good historical background analysis for each book, other bible versions, concordances, encyclopedias and lots more. For those who prefer a print alternative, the Chronological Study Bible also comes will be satisfactory.
The bible (or collection of books) was a collection of stories that had been passed down from generation to generation. Eventually some people wrote parts of the bible down, and these parts were copied over and over, while the method of verbal translation still existed. Eventually someone collected enough of these books to call it the bible. (Probably the Jewish bible to start.) The bible continued to be revised and updated throughout the years. By the time of the printing press, versions of the bible had been 'standardized'. More standardized versions of the Bible continued to be developed. Note that the Islam developed from Christianity which developed from Judaism, so the first bible was either one of Judaism or a still earlier religion.
The Book of GenesisGen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.The Gospel according to Saint JohnJoh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
new start, fresh start/beginning, start from scratch, rebirth