We’ve started working on the verse in which creation actually begins. As we saw last time, the first action in the Bible (after the background information that we’re given in Gen 1:1-2) is that God made a decision:
3 God thought, Let there be light, and there was light.
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃
And now we move on to what God actually decided.
Let there be light יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר The decision that starts the creation of sky and earth involves neither of them. It is too early for that. But Jer 4:23 hints at what is missing – and at where it will go:
I have seen the earth and it is a tohu-bohu
רָאִ֙יתִי֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהִנֵּה־תֹ֖הוּ וָבֹ֑הוּ
And the sky – but its light is gone.
וְאֶל־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ין אוֹרָֽם׃
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