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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] |
Bible Question: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, why is heaven in the plural form? |
Bible Answer: Hello, Candy7777 :: Thanks for your very first post to Study Bible Forum and we bid you welcome. The word in Genesis 1:1 that is translated "heavens" is the Hebrew "shamayim (Strong's 8064). It can mean heaven, heavens, highest heavens, sky, horizon, etc. depending on context. Gen. 1:14 speaks of the expanse of the heavens (shamayim) and this same Hebrew word in Gen. 1:26 is translated "sky." ...... Gen. 1:16 speaks of God making the two great lights (sun and moon) and the stars and (1:17) placing them in the heavens (again, the same word, shamayim, appears in the Hebrew manuscript. ...... Thus incorporated in the Gen. 1:1 phrase, "the heavens and the earth" is a summary statement of all of God's creation, i.e., the entire universe, all things. "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, 'I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all alone'" (Isaiah 44:24). What a marvelous passage from Isaiah this is, a perfect complement to the majestic Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." ..... If foolish man would only believe these magnificent statements from God's word, he would have no trouble believing the rest of Scripturre nor would he waste his precious time toying around with vacuous and flimsy theories such as evolution. --Hank |
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