Yitzhak:
The thing that you seem to be overlooking is that your
translation adds a "the" that is not present in the Hebrew
text. This would be equivalent to you writing in English,
"The earth was formless and void and darkness was over
the surface of Deep." Or "Abyss," or "Ocean." It is used
as a proper name. The use of this specific word, as a
proper name like this, at this place of the Creation story,
just appears to be too coincidental.
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JCR: The reason we have to add the word 'the' in English
translation is really quite simple. The fact is, we
don't have a concept of 'Ocean', 'Sea', 'Abyss' or
'Deep' which can be used as a proper name as these
are generic concepts and there can be many of each
one.
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