In Sunday’s post, we began to look at v. 2 of Genesis 1:
at the time the world was a tohu-bohu
וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ
Now we’re going to continue with the next phrase in the verse:
with darkness over Deep
וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם
with darkness וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ ve-ḥoshekh The second important background fact we must understand about the situation before creation began, after there being some sort of indeterminate, unformed material substance, is that it is dark. Even if there were any distinct objects already in existence – which there aren’t – we could not see them. Interestingly, it is not the lack of differentiation in the existing matter that is of primary importance according to this phrase, but the darkness. Speaking in contemporary terms again, this is a world without energy.
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