045. Appendix I: The Late Priestly Story Of Creation

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I THE LATE PRIESTLY STORY OF CREATION THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH WHEN THEY WERE CREATED

1. Introduction: original chaos. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was waste and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was brooding over the face of the waters.

2.Work of the first day: separation of light from darkness. Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. God caused the light to separate from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first day.

3.Second day: creation of a firmament. Then God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Thus God made a firmament, and caused the waters which were under the firmament to separate from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

4.Third day: separation of land and water and growth of vegetation. Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, that the dry land may appear. And it was so. And God also called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Sea. And God saw that it was good. Moreover God said, Let the earth put forth vegetation: herbs which yield seed, and fruit-trees which bear fruit on the earth after their kind, wherein is their seed. And it was so. Thus the earth brought forth vegetation, herbs which yield seed after their kind and trees which bear fruit after their kind, wherein is their seed. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

5.Fourth day: creation of the heavenly bodies. Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to distinguish between day and night. Let them also be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be lights in the firmament of heaven to shed light upon the earth. And it was so. Thus God made the two great lights: the greater to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; also the stars. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to shed light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to distinguish between light and darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

6.Fifth day: creation of the creatures of the air and water. Then God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Thus God created the great sea- monsters, and all living, moving creatures with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and become numerous, and fill the water in the sea, and let the birds become numerous on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

7.Sixth day: creation of land animals, reptiles and insects. Then God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind. And it was so. Thus God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the animals after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

8.Creation of man with divine intelligence and will, and with authority. Moreover God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, that they may have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the beasts of the earth, and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth. Thus God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. God also blessed them, and said to them, Be fruitful, and become numerous, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth.

9.Man and animals to be herbivorous.10. Universe originally perfect. God also said, Behold, I give to you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps on the earth, wherein there is life, I give every green herb for food. And it was so. And when God saw everything that he had made, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

11.Seventh day: rest. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host. When on the seventh day God had finished his work which he had done, he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. God also blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because in it he rested from all his work which he, God, had done in the process of creation.