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And there wasוַיְהִיeveningעֶרֶבand there wasוַיְהִיmorning,בֹקֶרa fifthחֲמִישִׁיday.יוֹם
Genesis 1:23
Study it in the app“And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 1:23, word by word
- And there wasיְהִיyehi
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appears- eveningעֶרֶבerev
evening
Evening, when the sun goes down. Each day of Genesis 1 is counted "evening and morning"; so in Israel the day begins at sunset.
Where else “erev” appears- morningבֹקֶרvoker
morning
Morning, dawn.
Where else “voker” appears- a fifthחֲמִישִׁיchamishi
fifth
The one in fifth place in an order.
Where else “chamishi” appears- dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears
The context
22And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
23 · This verse (above)
24And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their kind: livestock and creeping things and animals of the earth according to their kind.” And it was so.
To study Genesis 1 in a group
1. What it says
What did Elohim say about everything he had made at the end of the sixth day (v. 31)?
2. What it means
What does the text say about human beings when it says they were created in the image of Elohim (v. 27)?
3. How I live it
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?