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Genesis 1:14
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- this is the WA conversive plus the qal imperfect from the verb
’AMAR plus the masculine plural noun ‘ELOHIM, which means, “Then God said,”
- this is the third masculine singular qal imperfect from the verb HAYAH,
which means, “to be, to become” with the masculine plural noun MA’OR, which means
“luminaries; light bearing bodies.”
- this is the preposition BE plus the masculine singular noun RAQI’A in the
construct state, meaning “in the expanse of.”
- this is the definite article and the masculine plural noun SHAMAYIM, meaning
“the heavens.” This is a reference to the second heavens--stellar space.
“Then God said, ‘Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens”
- this is the preposition LE plus the hiphil infinitive construct from the verb
BADAL, which means “to separate, to distinguish.” The phrase is translated “in order to
separate.”
- this is the preposition BEN, meaning “between” plus the definite article and
the masculine singular noun YOM, meaning “between the day.”
“Then God said, ‘Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens in order to separate
between the day”
- this is the connective use of the conjunction WA, meaning “and” plus
the preposition BEN, meaning “between” and the definite article and the masculine singular
noun LAYLAH, meaning “night.” The phrase is translated “and between the night.”
“Then God said, ‘Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens in order to separate
between the day and between the night.”
- this is the WA conversive plus the third person common plural qal perfect from the
verb HAYAH, meaning, “to be.” The qal perfect is translated “And they will be.”
- this is the preposition of purpose LE plus the plural noun ‘OTH, meaning “for signs.”
- this is the connective use of WA plus the preposition LE plus the plural noun
MO’ED, meaning “and for appointed times; fixed days.”
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- this is the connective WA plus the preposition LE plus the masculine plural noun
YOM, meaning “and for days.”
- this is the connective WA plus the feminine plural noun SHANAH, meaning
“and years.”
Gen 1:14 corrected translation
“Then God said, ‘Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens in order to separate
between the day and between the night. And they will be for signs and for appointed times and
for days and years.”
Explanation:
1. God the Father gives the command to concentrate the dispersed light, which was restored on
day one into luminaries or light bearers. This is the creation of our solar system.
a. Our solar system only has one star, the sun. It is 800,000 miles in diameter. It is
332,000 times more massive than the earth. The surface temperature is 6000 degrees Centigrade.
It is estimated to be twenty million degrees Centigrade in its core. The sun has nine planets
revolving around it.
(1) Mercury is 36 million miles from the sun. It takes 224 days for it to go
around the sun.
(2) Venus is 67.2 million miles from the sun.
(3) Earth is 93 million miles from the sun.
(4) Mars is 141.6 million miles from the sun. One year on Mars is 687.5 days.
(5) Jupiter is 483.4 million miles from the sun.
(6) Saturn is 886.3 million miles from the sun.
(7) Uranus is 1782.4 million miles from the sun.
(8) Neptune is 2792.9 million miles from the sun.
(9) Pluto is 3671.9 million miles from the sun.
(10) Our solar system has 33 moons, 30,000 asteroids, and 100 billion comets. It
is 4 billion miles in diameter.
b. A full 99.86% of the solar system’s substance is found in the sun.
c. The word “planet” is from the noun PLANETES, meaning “a wanderer.” Only the
planets wander around the sun. The name is derived from the manner in which the planets seem
to drift among the fixed stars. Our solar system drifts through space as part of the Milky Way
Galaxy, which is also wandering through space.
d. Planet earth rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours and revolves around the sun
every 365.25 days.
e. Because of the rotation and revolution of the earth, the stars all seem to move in
unison in regular daily and annual cycles.
f. Mercury has an elliptical orbit around the sun–28 million miles on one end and 43
million miles on the other side. Mercury only rotates on its axis once every year, which means
one side is frozen and the other side is 650 degrees. Venus has yellowish-white clouds through
we cannot see. The average temperature of Mars is 60 degrees below zero.
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g. The luminaries include the sun, the planets, and comets. Comets are irregular in form
and orbit around the sun at a distance of 90,000 miles to 25 million miles. There are 120,000
visible comets.
h. Meteors are included as luminaries. Millions enter our atmosphere daily, most of
them very small. They burn up quickly. They are apparently garbage from other planets.
i. Space is measured by the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second, 11.16
million miles per minute, 669.6 million miles per hour, 16.7 billion miles per day or
5,865,696,000,000 miles per year.
(1) The constellation Sagittarius is 15,000 light years away. It is 100,000 light
years across the cluster of stars known as Sagittarius.
(2) The Andromeda Nebulae is 100,000 light years away. This is as far as you
can see with the human eye.
(3) Virgo is a cluster of several thousand galaxies, and is 50 million light years
away.
(4) The Big Dipper is 650 million light years away and is moving away from us
at 9300 miles per second.
j. The sun was created from the original light concentration. The whole system of the
heavens [the universe] and the earth has been around for billions of years, but our solar system
has only existed for a short time.
2. The light bearers have four purposes.
a. The first purpose of the light bearers is to divide the day from the night. The sun
provides the brighter light for the day. The sun was created in the restoration of the earth, the
rest of the universe was a part of the original creation. Apparently, part of the universe had to be
pulled away for the inclusion of our solar system into the universe. Stars already in existence
were used for light at night.
b. The second purpose of the light bearers is to be used as a sign for discerning of times,
when used of stars, Mt 2:2, 24:29; Lk 21:25; Jer 10:2; Joel 2:30; Mt 16:1-4, where stars are used
to predict weather.
c. The third purpose of the light bearers is divide the year into seasons according to
weather changes.
d. The fourth use of the light bearers is for counting days and years. The rotation of the
earth was the only standard for measuring time until 1940, when the atomic clock was
developed.
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