The Book of Genesis

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Excerpt from The Book of Genesis: A Translation From the Hebrew in Which the Constituent Elements of the Text Are Separated, to Which Is Added an Attempted Restoration of the Original Documents Used by the Latest Reviser Here the cosmogony, strictly speaking, ends, but the work of creation is not completed till the end of the chapter. Up to the present time we have an arid earth. Schrader points out the resemblance to the Babylonian creation story, line 6, a sprout had not yet sprung forth, ' in the representation of the condition of the earth. Yahveh formed the man of the dust of the ground that is, he fashioned him as a potter does clay. Conf. Job x. 9, 'remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust again Josephus says man was called 'adam, ' red, because he was made of virgin and true earth. See Cant. V. 10. For dust we should probably read 'dry earth (trockene Erde), as in Gen. Xxvi. 15, Josh. Vii. 6, Job ii. 11 (ges). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.