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I’ve been reflecting, meditating, prayerfully musing on the six days of creation in Genesis, chapter one–taking one day each day every day for three weeks now. Letting the words exert themselves on me. What powerful words they are. Like Day Five, using the Robert Alter translation: “And God said, ‘Let the waters swarm with the swarm of living creatures and let fowl fly over the earth across the vault of the heavens.’ And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that crawls, which the water had swarmed forth of each kind and the winged fowl of each kind, and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas and let the fowl multiply in the earth.’ And it was evening and it was morning, fifth day.”
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