Genesis 1:1-24
beginning <07225> [beginning.]
God <0430> [God.]
without shape <08414> [without.]
Spirit <07307> [Spirit.]
God <0430> [God.]
be .... there <01961> [Let.]
that <03588> [that.]
light ........ light .... darkness <0216 0996 02822> [the light from the darkness. Heb. between the light and between the darkness.]
day .... darkness ............. day <03117 02822> [Day, and.]
evening ..... morning <06153 01242> [And the evening and the morning were. Heb. And the evening was, and the morning was.]
expanse <07549> [Let there.]
expanse <07549> [firmament. Heb. expansion.]
separated <0914> [divided.]
above <05921> [above.]
so <03651> [and it.]
God <0430> [God.]
evening <06153> [evening.]
God .............. God saw <07200 0430> [God saw.]
land <0776> [Let the.]
vegetation <01877> [grass. Heb. tender grass. fruit.]
land <0776> [earth.]
plants <06212> [herb.]
lights <03974> [Let there.]
lights <03974> [lights.]
Or, rather, luminaries or light-bearers; being a different world from that rendered light, in ver. 3, the day from the night.
[between the day and between the night. and let.]
rule over ......... rule over <04475> [to rule. Heb. for the rule, etc.]
made ......................... stars <06213 03556> [he made the stars also. Or, with the stars also.]
water <04325> [Let the waters.]
swarms <08318> [moving. or, creeping.]
living <02416> [life. Heb. a living soul.]
birds fly <05774 05775> [fowl that may fly. Heb. let fowl fly.]
This marginal reading is more conformable to the original, and reconciles this passage with ch. 2:19. The word fowl, from the Saxon {fleon,} to fly, exactly corresponds to the original, which denotes every thing that flies, whether bird or insect.
across ... expanse <07549 06440> [open firmament. Heb. face of the firmament.]
great <01419> [great.]
swarmed <08317> [brought.]
God .............................. God saw <07200 0430> [God saw.]
land <0776> [Let.]
Cattle, denotes domestic animals living on vegetables;--Beasts of the earth, wild animals; especially such as live on flesh; and--Creeping things, reptiles; or all the different genera of serpents, worms, and such animals as have no feet.