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 proper name of an individual, as 5$3$. Although the great majority of comm. take it for granted that a single pair is contemplated, there is nothing in the narrative to bear out that view; and the analogy of the marine and land animals is against it on the whole (Tu. and Ben.).—fish of the sea, etc.] The enumeration coincides with the classification of animals already given, except that the earth occurs where we should expect wild beast of the earth. should undoubtedly be restored to the text on the authority of S.—27. in his image, in the image of God, etc.] The repetition imparts a rhythmic movement to the language, which may be a faint echo of an old hymn on the glory of man, like Ps. 8 (Gu.).—male and female] The persistent idea that man as first created was bi-sexual and the sexes separated afterwards (mentioned by Ra. as a piece of Haggada, and recently revived by Schwally, ARW, ix. 172 ff.), is far from the thought of the passage.—28. A benediction is here again the source of fertility, but this time also of dominion: Gu. regards this as another fragment of a hymn.

29-31. The record of creation closes with another (tenth)

27. ] G om. The curious paraphrase of Σ appears to reflect the Ebionite tendency of that translator: 🇬🇷 (Geiger, Jüd. Ztschr. f. Wiss. u. Leben, i. 40 f.). See, however, Nestle, MM, 3 f., who calls attention to the 🇬🇷 in G of 1 Sa. 28$14$, and considers this word the source of the idea that the upright form of man is part of the divine image. But G in 1 Sa. probably misread as .—] constructio ad formam:  ''constr. ad sensum'', being collective: see G-K. § 132 g.—] The phrase confined to P except Dt. 4$16$; [H] alone in Jer. 31$21$ (a gloss?). Although the application to a single pair of individuals predominates in the Law, the coll. sense is established by Gn. 7$16$, and is to be assumed in some other cases (Nu. 5$3$ etc.). On its etymology see Ges. Th., s.v., and (for a different view) Schwally, ZATW, xi. 181 f.—28. ] G 🇬🇷; perhaps original.—] The only instance of a verbal suff. in this chapter: a strong preference for expression of acc. by with suff. is characteristic of the style of P (We. Prol.$6$ 389).—] ptcp. with art. = relative cl.: see Dav. § 99, R. 1. The previous noun is defined by, as in v.$21$ (⅏ inserts the art.).—After S read  (so Ball). G has for the end of the v.: 🇬🇷.

29. ] = 'I give'; Dav. § 40 b; Dri. T. § 13.— (over Athnach)]