Day 1 | Genesis 1-3
NASA Genesis 1-3 Background - Sources of the Pentateuch The authorship of Genesis is not confined to one person but a series of people and communities over hundreds of years beginning with the oral tradition around campfires to being written down after the monarchy and while in the Babylonian Exile after 586 b.c. Chapter 1.1 - 11.26 tells of primeval history to the birth of Abraham. Chapter 1.1 - 2.3 is the priestly account of Creation that is cosmic in scope with merely God speaking something and something is created. The poetic stanzas of Creation deals with: Pre-creation - nothing but a void, darkness, wind, and the face of God Day 1 - light and light and darkness are separated Day 2 - God spares to bodies of water or what we understand as outer space and atmosphere Day 3 - God separated the water and the land and planted everything on the land Day 4 - God creates the stars, and Sole our Sun and the Moon Day 5 - God creates from the waters a mass of l...