Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Here we see that Noah had a perfect lineal descent through Adam, and had not taken a Pre-Adamite woman to wife. “ Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by SEVENS [seven and seven—Revised Version^ the male and his female ; and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens [seven and seven], the male and the female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.” The seventh Chapter begins with Yahveh’s com- mand to Noah, and at the fifth verse we find ; “ And Noah did according to all that Yahveh com- manded him.” The commands therefore which are given to Noah in the sixth Chapter are Elohim’s commands; and at the twenty-second verse of the sixth Chapter we find : “ Thus did Noah ; according to all that Elohim commanded him, so did he.” These two different commands are the commands of different Gods, the one Elohim’s, and the other Yahveh’s, and they are not conflicting. Elohim’s commands, that “ Of every living thing of all flesh, Noah shall take by twos, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing of the earth.” Yahveh’s commands that “ Of every Clean beast seven and seven, of fowl of the air by sevens—or seven and seven.” If we look at the first and second Chapters of Genesis, and compare them, we shall see that it is Elohim who wishes to preserve that Creation of 8o
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