The Full Spectrum of the Book of the Generations of Adam: A Visual and Historical Account of the Word of the Creator
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This is the introduction, but the main points follow.
Genesis 1
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. [25] And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
These are the beasts of the earth. Wycliff stated it differently, which caught my attention. He said:
24 And God said, The earth bring forth a living soul in his kind, work beasts, and reptiles, either creeping beasts, and unreasonable beasts of [the] earth, by their kinds; and it was done so. (In addition God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, yea, work beasts, and reptiles, or creeping beasts, and unreasoning beasts of the earth, all after their kind; and it was done so.)
25 And God made unreasonable beasts of the earth by their kinds, and work beasts, and each creeping beast of the earth in his kind. And God saw that it was good; (And God made the unreasoning beasts of the earth after their kind, and the work beasts, and the reptiles of the earth, each after its kind. Thus God saw that it was good;)
The use of the term “reasonable” beasts and “unreasoning” beasts is special and will come to play later on. Why? This is so because of the main event, man, the image of God.
Genesis 1
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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Adam was given dominion and this will make more sense in a time to come.
Everything is complete!
The night everything changed!
Elder Ishe / Brthr Nhmyh
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