Which book in the new testament opens in a way that sounds a lot like the opening of genesis?

The correct answer is the Gospel of John. It is one of the four canonical gospels of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It comes after Matthew, Mark, and Luke's gospels and its beginning is very similar to that of the book of Genesis. It was written by John the Apostle, one of Jesus' apostles.

Potlatch, ceremonial distribution of property and gifts to affirm or reaffirm social status, as uniquely institutionalized by the American Indians of the Northwest Pacific coast.

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