Looking at the Hebrew, there is no "When" nor "began" in the first verse, along with an added "then" in the second verse indicate an ideational viewpoint it looks as if they were added to make the translation say the same things as did most ancient creation myths, that started out with a pre-existing earth that the gods then made order out of chaos. He left off the definite articles for both "heaven" and "earth".
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