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darkness, and black water; (7) and the breathing 1 of the sacred being ever yearns 2 over the face of that black water 3. 8. Afterwards the sacred being spoke thus: 'Let there be light,' (9) and there was light4. 10. And stooping he considered that light below him, (11) and the light was transmitted by him to the day, and the darkness to the night 6. 12. In six days this world and sky and earth were also created by him, (13) for during the seventh day he was reposing (khaspân) and comfortable. 14. Through that same mystery (râz) even now the Jews are enjoying repose on the Sabbath day!
15. This, too, is stated, that Adam and his wife Eve (Havâ ê) were created by him, (16) and put into a garden of paradise (vahist); (17) so that Adam
1 Reading vâyâ, air, breath,' instead of Pâz. vakhsh, growth, expanse;' these two words being written alike in Pahlavi. Sans. has 'eyes
! Reading niyâ zêd instead of Paz, nyâved. Sans. has 'looks.'
8. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters '(Gen. i. 1, 2).
+ 'And God said, “Let there be light :" and there was light! (Gen. i. 3).
0 And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night' (Gen. i. 4, 5).
6 And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ... And he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made' (Gen. i. 31; ii. 1, 2).
? But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work. ... For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it' (Ex. xx. 10, 11).
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