• שׁרץ shārats — “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, however, it admits an objective noun of its own or a …

EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.

Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Ge…

There was no life in the sea or on the land until all was ready for it. God would not make a creature to be unhappy. There must be suitable food to…

And God blessed them. He soon declares what the power of this blessing is. For God does not, like humans, pray for us to be blessed; rathe…

And God blessed them
With a power to procreate their kind, and continue their species, as it is interpreted in the n…

God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and a…