Tableau 1 La Semaine De Création LE PREMIER CYCLE LE DEUXIÈME CYCLE Jour 1: Jour 4 de la terre et de lumière: Le soleil, lune, et étoiles Jour 2: Jour 5 de mer et d'air: Créatures de mer et d'air Jour 3: Jour 6 de végétation de terre (eaux terrestres y compris): Créatures de la terre (cheval y compris, serpent et homme). Jardin d'Eden comprenant Euphrates Jour 7: Apogée et extrémité, repos de Sabbath |
THE FIRST CYCLE |
THE SECOND CYCLE |
Day 1: Earth and light |
Day 4: Sun, moon, and stars |
Day 2: Sea and air |
Day 5: Sea and air creatures |
Day 3: Land vegetation |
Day 6: Creatures of the earth |
Day 7: Climax and end, Sabbath rest |
Reshith is always used as a noun and never translated 'began' in the Old Testament, and so there is no support for this reading. Bara, the word used here, is the usual word for 'create' and is never used for 'make'. Asah is the usual word for 'make' but can sometimes be used for create. Bara and asah can sometimes be used synonymously as in Genesis 1:26 and 27 where both are used of the creation of man. But there is no justification for translating bara as 'made' in the first three verses, particularly when New Testament references such as Hebrews 11:3 support the idea of creation ex nihilo. Regarding hayeth, Hebrews makes no distinction between 'became' and 'was' and so there might be a case for translating it 'became' in verse 2. However the word is almost invariably translated simply as 'was', and so the preponderance of evidence is against this translation.
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Numbers 3:1.