2 Maccabees 7:28
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“I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not; and so was mankind made likewise.”
This is the first occurrence of Creatio ex nihilo ("Creation from nothing") in the Bible, dating from the intertestamental period. Compare Genesis 1:1-3, which begins with water and darkness before the Creator's "Let there be light!"
