Let There Be Light
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PJ54
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Not Robert but I found this. Hope it helps!
The God Pill
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The hebrew is actually distinct with that verse from the other creative days it's Day One rather than the first day. It's also important to note that genesis 1 might not be the physical creation as we'd think of it for example in medieval Jewish thought creation was seen a four stage process soet of like how you model and render stuff with software like Blender in the first century Philo of Alexandria expressed this view
Why the creation of animals and flying creatures is mentioned a second time, when the account of their creation had already been given in the history of the six days? (Ge 2:19). Perhaps those things which were created in the six days were incorporeal angels, indicated under these symbolical expressions, being the appearances of terrestrial and flying animals, but now they were produced in reality, being the copies of what had been created before, images perceptible by the outward senses of invisible models.
I think however the most reliable thing to consult on the topic of genesis 1 outside of genesis itself would be the parallel account in the book of jubilees and perhaps the targum onkelos.
Moses had a vision of the creative days when he was on the mountain and the tabernacle and temples were modeled after the pattern of genesis 1.