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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: Way to explain the moon created on day 4. |
Bible Answer: The creation account does not say that the 'lesser light' (the moon) was created on day 4. The emphasis on day 4 is that God used the greater light (the sun) and the lesser light (the moon) in order to regulate the times and seasons, days and years. The fact that God 'made' them is stated but it is not said when. Only three acts of creation (bara) are mentioned in Genesis 1, the initial creation of Heaven and Earth, the creation of animal life and the creation of man. In the remainder of His activities the word used is 'made, fashioned'. Having created God then fashioned what He had created. When reading verbs in Hebrew we have to recognise that the Hebrews had little interest in chronology. They were interested in what happened, not when it happened. Thus Hebrew does NOT have a past tense, a pluperfect tense, a present tense and a future tense, It has two tenses, one signifying that something has been completed, the other that it is incomplete. Thus when it says that 'God made (or had made) the greater light and the lesser light' it is merely indicating that at some stage it happened, not saying when it happened. Having said that God used these lights to control the days and seasons on day 4 the writer then adds that at some stage prior to that He had made them for this purpose. But he does not say when. |
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