English Standard Version (©2001)
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
International Standard Version (©2012)
In the beginning, God created the universe.
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
American King James Version
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
American Standard Version
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
Darby Bible Translation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
English Revised Version
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
World English Bible
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth —
One out of 17 ain't bad I guess.
But it still begs the original question, this formless Earth, where did it come from. Speculate if you need to.
It’s 17/17. Gen. 1:1 isn’t any action, it’s an introductory statement. Read the Hebrew here: http://biblos.com/genesis/1-1.htm
The Hebrew indicates forming, shaping, creating, but from an existing item. http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/1254.htm
53 verb shape, create (compare Arabic probably loan-word, form, fashion by cutting, shape out, pare a reed for writing, a stick for an arrow,....
In the beginning is simply placing it at the start of the Biblical narrative, not just of Genesis, but the entire Masoretic text.
http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/7225.htm
So every example you give is the same thing and none of them imply an act of creation at that moment. It starts in Gen. 1:3, but the introduction of Gen. 1:1 is followed by what God had to work with and what state it was in, see Gen. 1:2.
As to where the pre-Genesis matter came from the Bible doesn’t say and neither will I. Clearly, God is capable of creating anything at anytime.
One interesting item to consider is how increasingly precise measuring instruments have destroyed the concept of “nothing”. In math we think of nothing as a null set, but when measuring the presence or absence of a physical item the fineness of the measurement is what counts. For a long time zero held, then we developed the technology to more precisely measure and nothing became something.