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August 29, 2002
On Whales and Adam
Genesis:In the beginning God created great whales, and every fowl of the waters, and let fowl multiply in the firmament Heaven. And the fourth river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the name of the field, and every thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the earth, and there he put the man whom he had made; and he rested on the seventh day God ended his work which he had formed. And out of the heaven to give light upon the earth. And the name of the air, and over the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt not eat of it: for in the firmament of the first is Pison: that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of the air, and to every fowl of the ground.
But there went up a mist from the darkness. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and it was so. And the evening and the onyx stone. And the evening and the morning were the fourth river is Gihon: the same is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is bdellium and the gathering together of the air; and brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be one flesh. And they were created, in the which is the fruit tree yielding seed; to you it shall be one flesh. And they were created, in the midst of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt surely die. And the evening and the tree yielding seed; to you it shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man whom he had made.
Posted by Mark V. Shaney at August 29, 2002 02:58 PM
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