Secrets of Gen 1.1

SECRETS OF GENESIS 1:1
PROF. M. M. NINAN
“In beginning created Elohim ‏,את the heaven ואת the earth.”
The word את [et] is the most frequent word in Hebrew . It constitutes over 2% of the words in any
text. It is used over 7000 times in the Bible itself starting from Genesis 1:1. where clearly in the
את beginning was
Could this be read as “In the beginning
God created ‏”את“‏ the word?
This was indeed the teaching of sefer
Yetzira where God first created the Hebrew
Alphabet and used that to create A to Z of
the cosmos.
Can we consider this as a statement of the
only begotten Son who is the Covenant
Symbol of God between Himself and His
creation?
As discussed in Talmud (Megilla 9a and
9b), when 72 sages were commissioned by
King Ptolemy of Egypt to translate the
Torah into Greek, they all made the same
14 adjustments to the translation in an
attempt to avoid misunderstandings. The
first change was to make the word order
such that no word would precede God: So they made it as "God created in the beginning". What?
. ‏”את“‏ The next word is
discussed earlier
It has the sense of adding the letter Alef before the Bet which we
https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/4933/ meaning-of-et gives an analysis of
the numerological understanding of the the study. For a detailed discussion see the website.
The same theme of creation is repeated in two other places:
“In the beginning God created (et) the heavens and (v-et) the earth (Genesis 1:1)
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that
the LORD God made the earth and the heavens (Genesis 2:4) (no et/v-et)
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