Chapter 1 commentary

Commentary on Chapter 1

Every concept of a belief in the Creator needs a beginning and a solid foundation, like most beliefs, an ancient document is the source of that belief. There are two major Religions that use the Old Testament as part or all of their foundation, Judaism and Christianity. They both use an interpretation of the ancient Hebrew, according to their belief and their tradition. I, on the other hand, am basing my belief on what I believe is a more exact translation of the ancient Hebrew and to substantiate my claim I have used their dictionary for the ancient Hebrew.

The difference in what I believe from the way the others believe is slight, but still significant. The first change is in the use of Magistrates over God. The word Elohim means at its base level, magistrates. Being that it ends in “M” it is a plural word, denoting more than one. It is the same for the word adam, which means human beings, for that matter it could be translated mankind. It ends in “M”, so it is possible there were more than one created in the beginning. That would solve the problem and question about who Cain married, so on and so forth.

The first chapter of Genesis did not get into the creation of the Magistrates or from where they came. It just got into how we got here. If you have noticed it states, “Let us…” That suggests that there are more than one, which supports the claim that Elohim is plural.

Another variation that is considered, that is a change from the standard, is day into age. It helps support the fact that the earth is older than we hold it out to be. The concept makes more sense than the doing of certain things in a day verses many days. Some things just take longer to do.
The sun and the moon were the first rulers that were created in this time frame. Since they were objects, their status never changed. They never stopped being rulers, even if man relegated them to just being objects in the sky. They were made for a purpose. They were made to define our days, months, years and our festivals. They were created to establish when we have our Sabbaths and when we begin our weeks and months and years.

One last thing, for now, the adam that was created in this part was to subjugate the animals. The word subjugate was derived from two words sub meaning under and jugum meaning yoke. This made the word subjugate, meaning under the yoke. Yoke denoted control or subjection, making the subject submissive. This adam was to make the animals submissive, putting them under their control.

Also, males and females are created at the same time, not at different times. I, also, hold to the belief that the adam in chapter 1 is different than the adam in chapter 2. That comparison will come later, is to be defined and understood later.