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Wishing all a Blessed Sabbath
Sam
1 In a beginning Elohim created
` the heavens and
` the earth. 2
+ As for the earth, it came to be a chaos and vacant,
* and darkness
was over the sur face of the abyss.
* And the spirit of Elohim was vibrating over the sur face of the
waters. 3 And Elohim
| said: Let light come to be! And light came to
| be. 4
+ Elohim
| saw
` the light that it was good.
+ Then Elohim
| separated
bt the light
+
bt from the darkness. 5 And Elohim
| called
> the light Day, and
> the darkness He called Night. And evening came to
| be, and morning came to
| be: day one. 6 And Elohim
| said: Let an atmosphere come to be in the midst
of the waters,
+ that it may
b be separating
bt waters
> from waters.
7 And it came to
| be so
~ . 7
+ Elohim
|
d made
` the atmosphere and
| separated
bt the waters
w
f under
> the atmosphere
+
bt from the
waters
w above
> the atmosphere. 8 And Elohim
| called
> the atmosphere
Heavens.
*
And evening came
to
|
be, and morning came
to
|
be:
the
second
day.
9
And Elohim
|
said: Let the waters
f
under the heavens flow
together
in
to one
7
confluence
~
Q
,
+
that the dry
ground
may
|
appear.
And it came
to
|
be so.
10
And Elohim
|
called
>
the
dry
ground
Land,
and
>
the
confluence of the waters He called Seas. And Elohim
|
saw that
it was
good.
11
And Elohim
|
said: Let the land
c
become verdant
with
vegetation:
with
herbage yielding seed
*
on the land
7
and
ncs
the
fruit
tree
d
bearing fruit
according
to its kind,
*
whose seed
is
in it. And
it came
to
|
be so.
12
+
The land
c
brought
|
forth vegetation: herbage
1:2 came
to
be
a
chaos and vacant:
cf
Isa 45:18;
Jr 4:23;
abyss:
cf
Isa 51:10
.
1:6
7-~
And it came
to
|
be so:
Hb has this clause at the end of v.7, yet
cf
1:9,11,15,24,30
.
1:8 Heavens:
LXX inserts here,
And Elohim
|
saw that
it was
good.
In the Hb, this clause occurs seven times
(verses 4,10,12,18,21,25,31)
.
1:9
7-~Q
confluence:
Hb
ri
place.
1:11 seed:
LXX adds, according
to its kind and
>
its likeness; kind:
LXX adds
, and
>
its
age yielding seed according to its kind,
* and the
7 fruit
0 tree
d bearing
fruit, whose seed is in it, according to its kind. And Elohim
| saw that it was good. 13 And evening came to
| be, and morning came to
| be: the third
day. 14 And Elohim
| said: Let luminaries come to be in the atmosphere
of the heavens
* to separate between the day and
bt the
night,
+ that they may
b be for signs,
+ for appointed season s,
+ for
days and years. 15
+ Let them
b be for luminaries in the atmosphere
of the heavens to
c give light on the earth. And it came to
| be so. 16
+ Elohim
|
d made
` two
. great
. luminaries,
` the
. greater luminary
for ruling the day and
` the
. smaller luminary for ruling the night,
and also
` the stars. 17
+ Elohim
|
g placed
` them in the atmosphere of
the heavens to
c give light on the earth, 18
+ to rule
i the day and
i the night, and to separate between the light and
bt the darkness.
And Elohim
| saw that it was good. 19 And evening came to
| be, and morning came to
| be: the fourth
day. 20 And Elohim
| said: Let the waters swarm with the swarming thing , the living
* soul, and let the flyer fly
on above the earth on the face of the atmosphere of the heavens.
7 And it came to
| be
so
0 . 21
+ Elohim
| created
` the
. great sea monsters and
` every
. moving,
. living soul with which the waters swarm according to their
kind, and
` every winged flyer according to its kind. And Elohim
|
saw that
it was
good.
22
And Elohim
|
blessed
`
them,
>
saying
-
: Be fruitful and increase;
+
fill
`
the waters in
the
seas, and let the flyer increase
i
on earth.
23
And evening came
to
|
be, and morning came
to
|
be:
the
fifth
day.
24
And Elohim
|
said: Let the earth
c
bring forth
the
living soul,
each according
to its kind:
domestic
beast,
+
creeper and land animal,
each according
to its kind. And it came
to
|
be so.
25
+
Elohim
|
d
made
`
the land animal
according
to its kind,
+
`
the
domestic
beast
according
to its kind, and
`
every creeper of the ground
according
to its kind. And Elohim
|
saw that
it was
good.
26
And Elohim
|
said: Let Us
d
make humanity in Our image
7
and
n
according
to
Our likeness.
+
Let them
hold
sway
i
over
the
fish of