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RE: A Day in the Life of the Torah: How Can Time Prove the Authenticity of Genesis by Charlie Shrem

in #story • 8 years ago (edited)

For me its a lot simpler... a typical Hebrew parallel. Check the repeated concepts on day 1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 6, having the 7th stand alone for emphasis... being the type of the Sabbath. The day, specifically, the evening and the morning are the opening and closing parenthesis of the literary parallel. A prefigure of six days shalt thy labor and do all thy work...etc.

We moderns may have read far more literalness into the account than was perhaps originally intended anciently.

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     8 years ago 

    Interesting thought which could still be true in spite of the fact that God carved the 7 day cycle in stone with his own finger when He gave Moses the 4th commandment.

    For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it. Exod 20: 8-11

    "It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed." When He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God. Exodus 31:18

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     8 years ago 

    It is intriguing to me that the Sabbath and the creation are so often inextricably linked in the Pentateuch.

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       8 years ago 

      Very good point!

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