Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

Dear Yizhak,

Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> My point regarding Gen 2:6 is that Gen 2:6 seems to be describing an
> event happening after 2:5.  Namely, why does 2:5 go to a description of
> how weeds and bushes did not yet grow, because God had not yet rained
> upon the earth, when all this time there is an )d watering the earth?  Why
> does it matter then that it rained?  So, 2:6 seems to happen *after* 2:5. If
> that is so, why then is 2:6 to be regarded as part of the "parenthetical" and
> not part of the "narration"?

Why didn't you say so in the first place?  ;-)  <just joking!>

Exactly when in this second account of creation plantlife sprouts is not 
clear.  It is not mentioned until v. 9 (which I think is an unmarked 
backloop, but a backloop to exactly when is not clear).  I don't think 
we can say that v. 6 is after 5.  I think 5 describes the situation in 
negative terms, and v. 6 describes the same situation in positive terms.

I think just about all of the modern translations have it right.

Shalom,
Bryan

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