Genesis 1:6 - 1:19

Day Two

Sang alhim to air to be
inside and part the primal seas.

Made alhim a space for air
to part the seas below
from those above
the atmosphere.

And so it came to be.

Called alhim to atmosphere
to elevate to stratosphere.

Diversity was unity
on the day of two.

Day Three

Sang alhim
to seas to pool
together in one place
and let a mass of land appear.
And so it came to be.

Called alhim
to seas
to be the oceans
and to land to be the earth.

Looked all the gods
upon all this as good.

Sang alhim
to earth to sprout the sprouts
of green plants seeding seeds
and fruit trees bearing fruit
which reproduce themselves upon
the earth.

And so it came to be.

The earth did sprout the sprouts
of green plants seeding seeds
and fruit trees bearing fruit
to reproduce themselves upon
the earth.

Looked all the gods
upon all this as good.

Diversity was unity
on the day of three.

Day Four

Sang alhim for there to be
bright lights up in the skies
to separate the day from night,
to mark the hours, days,
and years.

To brightly light the skies
and shine upon the earth.

And so it came to be.

As one, all gods made
two great lights
the greater one to flow the tides
the lesser one to flow at night
and guide the other stars.

All gods as one,
fixed those great lights
up in the skies to shine on earth and have their way
in day and night
and to divide the light from dark.

Looked all the gods
upon all this as good.

Diversity was unity
on the day of four.

Key Words

Day Two

Airspace

The ancient scripture expresses an advanced understanding of the water cycle, including the concept that the atmosphere carries water vapor up and into the sky.


Came to be

King James’ Bible translates the phrase oihi qn as ‘it was so”. This reinforces the image of a super-powered God ordering things to happen instantaneously and inexplicably upon the utterance of each phrase.

But, a more literal translation ‘became set upright’ or ‘came to be’ is also more consistent with a clear explanation of what happens in passages like this one. First, the powers-that-be sing out their collective plan, then the elements involved execute the actions to fulfill the plan. In this case, the atmosphere carries the clouds to the sky.


Day Three

Seeding seeds

In this passage, the earth sprouts sprouts then the plants seed seeds. This kind of word play springs naturally from the Aramaic/Hebrew language where many verbs and noun forms differ only slightly.


Reproduce themselves

The word mino can be translated to mean ‘species’ or ‘kind’, but can also mean ‘lineage’. Here, the plants are reproducing themselves on an ongoing basis.


Day Four

Flow the Tides

The word imim does not only mean ‘day’ and ‘daytime’ it can also mean ‘oceans’ and ‘tides’.


The Greater and Lesser Lights

If you accept that the Sun came into play on the first day, as the source of the first light, then this verse will make a lot more sense. The ‘greater light’ would be the Moon – which controls the tides. And, of course, the ‘lesser light’ would be the North Star - which is the center point of the lights from the other stars.

Days Two, Three and Four

Genesis One is remarkably consistent with our modern scientific understanding of the origins of the earth. From the beginning of recorded time to the end of the fourth day, it goes like this:



Genesis One does not say “Sun,” “Moon,” or “North Star”. Back then, there were Sun worshippers, Moon lovers, and North Star followers. Back then, naming names would have imputed divinity to the heavenly bodies and fomented arguments among religious sects. But, now, when we swap in names and look at the text one step at a time, the story makes a lot more sense.

Having said that, I should add that most Biblical scholars disagree with this interpretation. For the most part, scholars maintain that the Sun is not the source of the “light’ on Day One and that, on Day Four, the greater light is the Sun (not the Moon) and the “lesser light” is the Moon (not the North Star). But, of course, that mainstream reading puts the Bible at odds with the geological record of the earth, and with common sense. How could plants have grown on Day Two when the Sun didn’t exist until Day Four?

But if you believe that the Bible’s ideas were first passed from the collective wisdom of the powers-that-be into the minds of our ancestors, and you believe that God is pretty good at science, then you may want to interpret the ancient text in ways that are more, not less, consistent with scientific evidence. Moreover, if you take some time to read the ancient text, you will find this interpretation to be perfectly consistent with a verbatim translation.

It looked like this:

In the beginning everything was in position



And then there was light and things became visible.



This is not to say that the powers-that-be created the sun on the first day - or address whether they crated the sun at all. Genesis is relating the point at which the sun entered the equation. Perhaps the earth had been a ball of solid and subliming ice and minerals that had just then entered the sun's orbit.

Then the primal waters separated into vapors and liquids. The airspace/firmament/vault is the atmosphere. Water vapors rise through the atmosphere into the sky/skywaters/heavens. The liquid remains on earth in oceans that cover its entire surface.



One continent formed and plants began to grow on the land mass.



The Moon's gravitational pull created tides and the North Star appeared to be the focal point of the other stars and hence ruled the night.

We now know that water vapor is lighter than air, so the atmosphere lifts it into the sky and that the sky is colored blue because of the prismatic effect of the sunlight upon water vapor. And we have found archaeological evidence of one giant land mass rising from the seas then, later, separating into continents.

Overall, Genesis One records the delineation and engagement of the elements of creation from the perspective of the collective universal intelligence that we now call God. It does so with enough accuracy to help bridge the gap between spirituality and science.

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