Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] When God began to create...
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:32:42 -0500
Hi Yitzhak,
The yiqtols and weqatal of Gen 2:5-6 do state the conditions at the time
the narration of v. 7 begins. They should be read as "this would happen
and that would happen." The are exactly parallel in _purpose_ to the
X-qatal and noun sentences of Gen 1:2 even though they are not parallel
syntactically.