beginning of time and the creation of the world has a dual telling,

composed of two principal layers. There is the Priestly source that also

provides an editorial framework, and a non-priestly narrative, identified by

many scholars as belonging to the Jahweh version. The Priestly account of

creation presents God as a divine ruler, creating the universe by decree in

six days and resting on the seventh. The Jahweh version has a different

style and order of events. It has creation in the Garden of Eden. How are

the Priestly and Jahweh versions of creation are similar in results and

How was earth created by God? In the Priestly version, God

creates light and separates it from darkness forming night and day. God

then continues for a total of six days creating the world, culminating on

the seventh day God resting in Sabbath. With this story God is systematic

and calculating everything he does, with the long term in mind. The

though it gives the names of rivers that exist on earth. In their sequence

animals, and no matter if you believe the Priestly version as literal truth;

and female in his image. He also gives them domain over the earth and

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