Pearl S. Buck and Lyle Kenyon Engel, "The Illustrated Story Bible," (New York: A Meridian Book, 1980), 3, 6. The Old Testament THE CREATION OF THE WORLD In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. At first there was nothing: neither earth nor sky, nor light, nor sound, nor any living thing. All was darkness and silence. And then the Spirit of God came into the emptiness to give it for..