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  • From: "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
  • To: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void
  • Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:13:06 -0500

The original condition is described as, "The earth was without form and void (empty or whatever), and darkness was upon the face of the deep" - there being no English equivalent for the word that is translated as "deep". However, chosek (as I vaguely remember the word) was upon the face of whatever it was.

Otherwise the condition appears to rather be primordial chaos. It might have been composed of water.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void



----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rempel" <CharlesR AT mygalaxyexpress.com>

> HH: I think so. Why would we understand that light existed in verse 1
> when God creates light in verse 3?

It is interesting to note in Isaiah 45:7 that God created (bara) darkness
and formed (asah) light. Thus giving grammatical support that light
pre-exixted darkness and was "formed" into that light which was good for
man.

Charles D. Rempel

This goes back to verse 4 in Genesis 1: "...and he
divided the light from the darkness." The nature of
light is that if it were not divided from the
darkness, there would be no darkness. As it is,
light, even dimly, permeates all of darkness, just
not all is visible to our eyes. It is in this way
that God "created" darkness.

Karl W. Randolph.


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