What Bible is being read that Genesis 1&2 contradict one another.?

The verses do not contradict one another. Verse two supplies additional information to complete the account. This is a common form of writing among the ancient Hebrews. Another example is Chronicles 1 & 2, Kings 1 & 2 and Samual 1 & 2 all go together to compile a complete account of the history of that periods. The Gospel accounts all go together to give a complete testimony of the life of Jesus. They are four witnesses give four viewpoints of the events that took place. Matthew portrays Christ the King; Mark portrays Christ the Man; Luke portrays Christ the Messiah and John portrays Christ the Son of God. Jesus loves you.

You must have a bad translation. Here is what Genesis 1:1 says. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In the beginning God only created one heaven and one earth and because He filled the universe with water and made the earth without form and water. He pushed the waters back and created a deep between the second and third heaven. Genesis 1: 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1: 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Genesis 1: 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. There is no contradictions God now has completed his work and there are now three heavens. Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Maybe if you would get a King James Bible you would have the Word of God and you could understand what God did in the beginning.

If you read any version, you will see that Genesis1:1-2:3 tells the seven days of creation. Then beginning with Genesis 2:4, it goes back and retells the sixth day (the creation of Adam and Eve) in greater detail. Some people try to make this a contradiction.

It is a common writting technique used may times throughout the Bible. Give and overview, followed by details. What is normally used to seperate the two accounts will be a genealogy. (Note the genealogy in 2:4). You see this everyday if you read the news. They will give you an overview in the first paragraph or two, following by the details.

They are two completely different cosmologies, and they were written at vastly different times for different purposes. The second story is much older and uses imagery borrowed from Egypt (e.g. the snake).

The different people usually mean when they point out how the stories contradict each other is how in the first story, man and woman were created at the same time, after animals were created, and in the second story, man is created first, then animals, and then woman.

The first story could have been written as late as the Exile, since it reads like a polemic against Babylonian paganism ("we came from nothing--the world was not carved out of the body of some dragon slain by Marduk"), whereas the second story is older folklore designed to tell people why there is evil.

It seems to be that there is a contradiction in KJV that whether Adam was created, then the beasts and birds, then Eve, and some versions seem to say that both Adam and Eve were created after beasts and birds.

I don't know what bible is being read.

I read the King James Bible.

1. created

2. completed

Not complicated.

Good question!