This verse consists of three coordinated clauses, making three separate statements about the state of affairs on earth once it has been created. The verse opens disjunctively, so that the relationship between v1 and v2 cannot be understood as consecutive on one another chronologically, i.e., the two verses cannot be read as "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and then the Earth became formless and empty," as suggested by the so-called 'Gap Theory.' The grammar permits several possibilities, for which see The Relationship between v1 and v2.