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2 : C R E A T I O N
Cf. Gn. 2:2-3
The Sabbath
was
“hallowed,”
set apart
as holy the
seventh day
of Creation.
The word
Sabbath
in Hebrew
appears in
Gn. 2 also.
A N D
CHAPTER 2:
The Angel dictates to
Moses the Primæval
History: the Creation of
the World and Institution
of the Sabbath
(2:1-33; cf. Gen. 1-2:3)
1 And the Angel of the Presence
spake to Moses according to
the word of Yahuah, saying:
Write the complete history
of the creation, how in six
days Yahuah Elohim finished
all His works and all that He
created, and kept Sabbath on
the seventh day and hallowed
it for all ages, and appointed it
Cf. 2:18, as a sign for all His works.
15:27, 31:14. 2 For on the first day He
These are
the two chief created the heavens which
orders of
angels. The are above and the earth and
“angels of
sanctification” the waters and all the spirits
sing praises
to God. which serve before Him--the
The various Angels of the Presence, and
classes the Angels of Sanctification,
of angels
that follow and the Angels [of the Spirit
constitute
the third of Fire and the Angels] of the
or lowest
order. They Spirit of the Winds, and the
preside over
the elements Angels of the Spirit of the
and natural
phenomena; clouds, and of darkness, and
cf. 1 En.
40:12-21, 75, of snow and of hail and of
80; For the
“angels of the hoar frost, and the Angels of
winds,” cf. the Voices and of the thunder
Rev. 7:1 f.; 1
En. 18:1-5, and of the lightning, and the
34-36, 76.
Cf. En. Angels of the Spirits of cold
40:17-18
and of heat, and of winter
Cf. Rev. 4:5,
11:19, 16:18 and of spring and of autumn
Cf. 1 En.
9:13-15 and of summer, and of all the
Jub. nor Gn.
attribute
darkness,
the waters,
the abysses
as being
created on
the 1st day
of Creation.
No angels fell
before they
were created
and no evil
existed
yet. Angels
are not
assigned a
Creation role
necessarily.
T H E
S A B B A T H
spirits of His creatures which Cf. 1 En.
82:13-20
are in the heavens and on the
earth, (He created) the abysses
and the darkness, eventide
(and night), and the light,
dawn and day, which He hath
prepared in the knowledge of
His heart. 3 And thereupon
we saw His works, and praised
Him, and lauded before Him
on account of all His works;
for seven great works did He
create on the first day. 4 And
on the second day He created
the firmament in the midst
of the waters, and the waters Cf. Gen.
1:6-7;
were divided on that day--half 2En. 26-27.
of them went up above and
half of them went down below
the firmament (that was) in
the midst over the face of the
whole earth. And this was the
only work (Elohim) created Seas with
“separate
on the second day. 5 And on gathering
are
the third day He commanded places”
not oceans.
in
the waters to pass from off the Yam
Hebrew is
general
face of the whole earth into aterm
for
bodies
one place, and the dry land to large
of water
appear. 6 And the waters did including the
Nile River,
so as He commanded them, the Dead
Sea which is
and they retired from off the a lake, etc.
There is no
face of the earth into one place mention of an
prior
outside of this firmament, and ocean
to the Flood
nor in
the dry land appeared. 7 And here
Gn.
6:42on that day He created for 2Esd.
52 notes
times
them all the seas according three
that 1/7th of
to their separate gathering- the world was
water prior to
places, and all the rivers, and the Flood.
Cf. Gn.1:9-13
the gatherings of the waters
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