The score:
JPS: standalone
Chabad, Alter, Fox, Friedman: adverbial clause
In the beginning, God separated?
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
The JPS TORAH COMMENTARY: GENESIS
The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation
Commentary by NAHUM M. SARNA
The Jewish Publication Society 5749/1989
When God began to create Heaven and earth -- the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water -- God said ...
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
The Ancient Hebrew word for "when" is מתי.
בראשית ברא מתי אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
בראשית ברא מתי אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
https://vivliothikiagiasmatos.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/joseph-yahuda-hebrew-is-greek.pdf
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
I was using Tanach (JPS): Genesis: Genesis Chapter 1 from 1917. Seems like it was revised from standalone in 1917 to adverbial in 1989.
Re: In the beginning, God separated?
There's a lesson here ...lpetrich wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:58 pm I was using Tanach (JPS): Genesis: Genesis Chapter 1 from 1917. ...