Hebrew root word studies
1 In the beginning God Elohiym created the heaven and the earth. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light;” and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. {p}
6 And God Elohiym said: “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. {p}
9 And God Elohiym said: “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said: “Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after its kind, within which is its seed, upon the earth.” And it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and trees bearing fruit, within which is its seed, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. {p}
14 And God Elohiym said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. {p}
20 And God Elohiym said: “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let winged creatures fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” 21 And God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that creeps, with which the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged creature after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let winged creatures multiply in the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. {p}
24 And God Elohiym said: “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said: “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the winged creatures of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 And God blessed them; and God said to them: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the winged creatures of the air, and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.” 29 And God said: “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall be for food; 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every winged creature of the air, and to every thing that creeps on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. {p}
Chiastic structures
Gen 1:1-5 {p} chiasm
Gen 1:20-23 {p} chiasm
Gen 1:24-31 {p} chiasm
Gen 1:1-2:3 {px7} chiasm
Off site studies
Genesis: Finding Our Roots – Ruth Beechick
Genesis 1:1 – Truths hidden within the Aleph-Bet – Brad Scott
Create – Hebrew word study – Brad Scott
Light – Hebrew word study (and more detailed) – Brad Scott
The Principle of the Seed – Brad Scott
Six Literal Days – Answers in Genesis
Linguistics, Genesis, and Evolution – Answers in Genesis
Does Genesis 1:1-2 refer to the first day? – Answers in Genesis
Do Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other? – Answers in Genesis
Answers about biblical creation – Answers in Genesis
Evidence for Creation – Institute for Creation Research
Evidence for the Fine-Tuning of the Universe – God and Science (excellent article, my only caveat is that I am not a universe is billions of years old girl. See also Starlight and Time by Dr. D. Russell Humphreys (amazon link) for another way to look at the question of age.)
Intelligent Design – Discovery Institute
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