Then we are told that the earth only became empty and chaotic. Scripture refers to this elsewhere:

Isaiah 34:11 describes the judgment to come upon the land of Edom: "The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion (tohu) and the stones of emptiness (bohu)." No one would say this is the original condition of Edom; it is what God has brought it to.

Jeremiah 4:23 alludes to impending judgments on Israel by saying, "I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form (tohu) and void (bohu); and the heavens, and they had no light...there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled." This is not a primeval condition, but a future desolation, the terms pointedly alluding to Genesis 1:1.