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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: Shamayim - why heavens, not two heavens |
Bible Note: Greetings Pom! I don't know. Most of the sources I counslted didn't attach a lot of significance to dual nouns. Although, they also admitted that they didn't know why some nouns were dual. At this point, I would guess that it is just a quirk of the language. In Christ, Tim Moran |