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Genesis 1-8 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 01:45, February 15, 2012
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|In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
|In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
|In a beginning, God created the [[heaven]]s and the [[earth]].
|In the beginning, God created the [[heaven]]s and the [[earth]].
|The Hebrew word '''שמים''' (''shamayim'') means "skies" and is in the dual number.
|The Hebrew word '''שמים''' (''shamayim'') means "skies" and is in the dual number.
The opening creative verse covers all needed dimensions of our universe which are interdependent: in the beginning ('''time''') God created (Action) the heaven ('''space''') and the earth ('''matter'''). Western man delineated these concepts in the 19th century, but God revealed them to us from the beginning.
The opening creative verse covers all needed dimensions of our universe which are interdependent: in the beginning ('''time''') God created (Action) the heaven ('''space''') and the earth ('''matter'''). Western man delineated these concepts in the 19th century, but God revealed them to us from the beginning.
Neither the Septuagent nor the Masoretic Text include the definite article with reference to the word meaning beginning. A literal translation would be rendered, "In '''A''' beginning."
Neither the Septuagent nor the Masoretic Text include the definite article with reference to the word meaning beginning. But that is of no moment; ancient definite article adjectives ''were not'' required in all instances, as they are in modern English and the Romance languages. Hebrew, like Greek, uses definite articles for emphasis. Indefiniteness, in both these languages, is a thing that the user must make explicit, with an indefinite pronoun.
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|And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
|And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
|Now God commanded, "The earth shall produce living creatures of all [[Baraminology|kinds]]: livestock, creeping things, and wild animals of the earth, of all kinds!" And so it came to be.
|Now God commanded, "The earth shall produce living creatures of all [[Baraminology|kinds]]: large animals, ground creepers, and other animals of the earth, of all kinds!" And so it came to be.
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|And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
|And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
|God made all manner of wild animal kinds, and livestock kinds, and every kind of thing that creeps on land. God deemed this good.
|God made all manner of animal kinds, large animals after their kinds, and ground creepers after their kinds. God deemed this good.
|Again, finished—and ready for the pièce de résistance: [[human|man]].
|Again, finished—and ready for the pièce de résistance: [[human|man]].
'''Note:''' The Hebrew word ''behemah,'' translated as "cattle," does ''not'' mean the common beef animal. It means any large walker, including the fearsome ''Behemoth'' that God describes to [[Job]].
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