“Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”
Genesis 1:2
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- In the Beginning: Why God Created by Speaking (Genesis 1)
How many times does God speak in Genesis 1?
Count the speaking in Genesis 1 and a pattern shows up that the writer built on purpose. Ten times a form of the Hebrew wayyomer Elohim (H559), and God said, opens a fresh act of creation. Later rabbis named these the ten sayings of creation and set them beside the ten words spoken at Sinai: a world made by ten utterances, a covenant given in ten. Creation and commandment come out of the same mouth.
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