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| Syllables | Cumulative | Paragraph | Notes | Hebrew | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 16 | בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃ | 1:1 | ||
| 34 | 50 | וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם19 וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם׃5 | 1:2 | ||
| 13 | 63 [a] | 63 | Sevens since Israel's slavery | וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃ | 1:3 |
| 25 | 89 | וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב11 וַיַּבְדֵּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֔ים בֵּ֥ין הָא֖וֹר וּבֵ֥ין הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃14 | 1:4 | ||
| 30 | 119 [b] | 56 | Moses' age | וַיִּקְרָ֙א אֱלֹהִ֤ים׀ לָאוֹר֙ י֔וֹם וְלַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ קָ֣רָא לָ֑יְלָה17 וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃ פ13 | 1:5 |
| 26 | 145 [c] | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים יְהִ֥י רָקִ֖יעַ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַמָּ֑יִם15 וִיהִ֣י מַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין מַ֖יִם לָמָֽיִם׃11 | 1:6 | ||
| 40 | 185 | וַיַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִים֘ אֶת־הָרָקִיעַ֒ וַיַּבְדֵּ֗ל בֵּ֤ין הַמַּ֙יִם֙17 אֲשֶׁר֙ מִתַּ֣חַת לָרָקִ֔יעַ וּבֵ֣ין הַמַּ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֖ר מֵעַ֣ל לָרָקִ֑יעַ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃23 | 1:7 | ||
| 25 | 210 [d] | 91 | Number of years post-Noah's death 490, Hammurabi's end, Hittites start | וַיִּקְרָ֧א אֱלֹהִ֛ים לָֽרָקִ֖יעַ שָׁמָ֑יִם וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם שֵׁנִֽי׃ פ25 | 1:8 |
| 36 | 246 | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִקָּו֙וּ הַמַּ֜יִם מִתַּ֤חַת הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ אֶל־מָק֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד24 וְתֵרָאֶ֖ה הַיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃12 | 1:9 | ||
| 31 | 227 | יִּקְרָ֙א אֱלֹהִ֤ים׀ לַיַּבָּשָׁה֙ אֶ֔רֶץ12 וּלְמִקְוֵ֥ה הַמַּ֖יִם קָרָ֣א יַמִּ֑ים וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃19 | 1:10 | ||
| 44 | 320 | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים תַּֽדְשֵׁ֤א הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ דֶּ֔שֶׁא עֵ֚שֶׂב מַזְרִ֣יעַ זֶ֔רַע21 עֵ֣ץ פְּרִ֞י עֹ֤שֶׂה פְּרִי֙ לְמִינ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעוֹ־ב֖וֹ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃23 | 1:11 | ||
| 43 | 364 [e] | 154 | Number of years post-Hammurabi start | וַתּוֹצֵ֙א הָאָ֜רֶץ דֶּ֠שֶׁא עֵ֣שֶׂב מַזְרִ֤יעַ זֶ֙רַע֙ לְמִינֵ֔הוּ20 וְעֵ֧ץ עֹֽשֶׂה־פְּרִ֛י אֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעוֹ־ב֖וֹ לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃23 | 1:12 |
| 14 | 378 [f] | 14 | Number of years post-Egypt's 12th dynasty | וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם שְׁלִישִֽׁי׃ פ14 | 1:13 |
| 46 | 424 | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יְהִ֤י מְאֹרֹת֙ בִּרְקִ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם לְהַבְדִּ֕יל בֵּ֥ין הַיּ֖וֹם וּבֵ֣ין הַלָּ֑יְלָה29 וְהָי֤וּ לְאֹתֹת֙ וּלְמ֣וֹעֲדִ֔ים וּלְיָמִ֖ים וְשָׁנִֽים׃17 | 1:14 | ||
| 24 | 448 [f] | 70 | Number of years post-Jacob's death | וְהָי֤וּ לִמְאוֹרֹת֙ בִּרְקִ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם לְהָאִ֖יר עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃24 | 1:15 |
| 49 | 497 [f] | 49 | Number of years post-Sesostris II start rule | וַיַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־שְׁנֵ֥י הַמְּאֹרֹ֖ת הַגְּדֹלִ֑ים אֶת־הַמָּא֤וֹר הַגָּדֹל֙ לְמֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת הַיּ֔וֹם30 | 1:16 |
| וְאֶת־הַמָּא֤וֹר הַקָּטֹן֙ לְמֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת הַלַּ֔יְלָה וְאֵ֖ת הַכּוֹכָבִֽים׃19 | |||||
| 21 | 518 [f] | 21 | Number of years post-Joseph imprisonment | וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֛ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בִּרְקִ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם לְהָאִ֖יר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃21 | 1:17 |
| 28 | 546 [f] | 28 | Number of years post-Joseph's birth | וְלִמְשֹׁל֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם וּבַלַּ֔יְלָה9 וּֽלֲהַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין הָא֖וֹר וּבֵ֣ין הַחֹ֑שֶׁךְ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃19 | 1:18 |
| 14 | 560 [g] | 14 | Number of years post-Jacob leaving for Haran, to wive | וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם רְבִיעִֽי׃ פ14 | 1:19 |
| 36 | 596 | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים יִשְׁרְצ֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם שֶׁ֖רֶץ נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֑ה18 וְעוֹף֙ יְעוֹפֵ֣ף עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ עַל־פְּנֵ֖י רְקִ֥יעַ הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃18 | 1:20 | ||
| 38 | 634 | וַיִּבְרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם הַגְּדֹלִ֑ים15 וְאֵ֣ת כָּל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ הַֽחַיָּ֣ה׀ הָֽרֹמֶ֡שֶׂת אֲשֶׁר֩ שָׁרְצ֙וּ הַמַּ֜יִם23 | 1:21 | ||
| 17 | 651 [h] | 91 | Number of years post-Abram's maturation (add 7, then round) | וְאֵ֙ת כָּל־ע֤וֹף כָּנָף֙ לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃17 | |
| 35 | 686 | 35 | Number of years post-God ordering Abram to leave Haran | וַיְבָ֧רֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר11 פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֗וּ וּמִלְא֤וּ אֶת־הַמַּ֙יִם֙ בַּיַּמִּ֔ים וְהָע֖וֹף יִ֥רֶב בָּאָֽרֶץ׃24 | 1:22 |
| 14 | 700 [i] | 14 | Number of years post-Noah's death | וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם חֲמִישִֽׁי׃ פ14 | 1:23 |
| 35 | 735 | 35 | Number of years post-Terah 'exodus' from Ur to Haran | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים תּוֹצֵ֙א הָאָ֜רֶץ נֶ֤פֶשׁ חַיָּה֙ לְמִינָ֔הּ בְּהֵמָ֥ה20 וָרֶ֛מֶשׂ וְחַֽיְתוֹ־אֶ֖רֶץ לְמִינָ֑הּ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃15 | 1:24 |
| 43 | 778 | וַיַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִים֩ אֶת־חַיַּ֙ת הָאָ֜רֶץ לְמִינָ֗הּ15 וְאֶת־הַבְּהֵמָה֙ לְמִינָ֔הּ8 וְאֵ֛ת כָּל־רֶ֥מֶשׂ הָֽאֲדָמָ֖ה לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃20 | 1:25 | ||
| 36 | 814 | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ18 וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֙ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙18 | 1:26 | ||
| 17 | 831 | וּבְכָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכָל־הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃17 | |||
| 33 | 864 | וַיִּבְרָ֙א אֱלֹהִ֤ים׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם16 אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃17 | 1:27 | ||
| 39 | 903 | וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָם֘ אֱלֹהִים֒ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר לָהֶ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֛וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ17 אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָ וּרְד֞וּ בִּדְגַ֤ת13 | 1:28 | ||
| 20 | 923 | הַיָּם֙ וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּבְכָל־חַיָּ֖ה הָֽרֹמֶ֥שֶׂת עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃20 | |||
| 34 | 957 | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים הִנֵּה֩ נָתַ֙תִּי לָכֶ֜ם אֶת־כָּל־עֵ֣שֶׂב׀17 זֹרֵ֣עַ זֶ֗רַע אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י כָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְאֶת־כָּל־הָעֵ֛ץ17 | 1:29 | ||
| 16 | 973 | אֲשֶׁר־בּ֥וֹ פְרִי־עֵ֖ץ זֹרֵ֣עַ זָ֑רַע לָכֶ֥ם יִֽהְיֶ֖ה לְאָכְלָֽה׃16 | |||
| 45 | 1018 | וּֽלְכָל־חַיַּ֣ת הָ֠אָרֶץ וּלְכָל־ע֙וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם16 וּלְכֹ֣ל׀ רוֹמֵ֣שׂ עַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ֙ נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֔ה אֶת־כָּל־יֶ֥רֶק עֵ֖שֶׂב לְאָכְלָ֑ה וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃29 | 1:30 | ||
| 32 | 1050 [j] | 315 | Number of years post-Flood | וַיַּ֤רְא אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה12 וְהִנֵּה־ט֖וֹב מְאֹ֑ד וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם הַשִּׁשִּֽׁי׃ פ20 | 1:31 |
| 16 | 1067 [k] | וַיְכֻלּ֛וּ הַשָּׁמַ֥יִם וְהָאָ֖רֶץ וְכָל־צְבָאָֽם׃17 | 2:1 | ||
| 37 | 1104 | וַיְכַ֤ל אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה19 וַיִּשְׁבֹּת֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָֽׂה׃18 | 2:2 | ||
| 37 | 1141 [k] | 91 | וַיְבָ֤רֶךְ אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־י֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י וַיְקַדֵּ֖שׁ אֹת֑וֹ18 כִּ֣י ב֤וֹ שָׁבַת֙ מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁר־בָּרָ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ פ19 | 2:3 |
Note: Genesis 1 doesn't actually end until Genesis 2:3 as shown by the petuhah פ "paragraph" markers. Chapter theme is Plan of Time as 1050 years, a basic civilization TIME deadline, by the end of which, certain goals must be met. It's usually truncated or mistaken as '1000' in Jewish and Christian theologies. So, most get Bible wrong, being ignorant of this Time deadline, around which all Bible dates continually reconcile. A deadline one readily discerns, if one but counts syllables as ancient children were taught...
Doctrinal meanings are deliberate and convenient; for while you threshed wheat or walked to town, you could easily recall and mull over Scripture, thus obeying Deuteronomy 6:5-12.
Poetic Meter has doctrinal meaning, the following individual or group factors. Meanings so far:
Hence the seventh day, 1141 = 1050 + 91, when compared with the text (esp. צְבָאָֽם׃ in Genesis 2:1, meaning war or armies, translators mask it), equals Daniel 9:24's statement: all rebellion must complete before the end comes. Angelic rebellion is also in verse 2 (see Isaiah 45:7, 18-19), Earth is trashed up so the Holy Spirit 'hovers', wryly awaits Father's order to restore. God has Moses sketch a tripartite parallel:
Analogous to child delivery through water: for in ending ellipsis, is another 1050 to end at Christ's BIRTH, covered in the 700, below. Same as for Psalm 90!
91 is a tribulation meter (also verse 19 to end verse 21); so 7 is in ellipsis at both start and chapter end: 98 = His 97th birthday, when Millennium – a birthday present – was to begin. The extra 7 was potential, foreknown to go past Israel's 2100-year 'time budget'. So the jaw-dropping trial issue became: would Christ pay for a much larger number of future sins? Answer is in Matthew 16:18: yes, Christ votes for however many future humans Father chooses, ratified the night He was arrested (John 17:20ff). The 14 sum had a long ride, starting with Jacob staying 14 years too long with Laban; it gets made up and then goes overbudget again, until finally it pairs up with the tribulation as a sabbatical seven which can't play but during Messiah's lifetime (theme of Isaiah 53 and Daniel 9:26, seven due on the 49 causing Temple Down). So He went to the highways and byways (Matthew's theme after 16:18), final warning call, Israel! Vote on time! But Israel didn't: as a result we exist (theme of Romans 11). So that extra 7 in ellipsis allocated to the seventh day, meant we Church, might have no future. Hence God has Moses pregnantly dateline 7 in double ellipsis, when he writes.
Dateline A: Moses uses 63 as Genesis' theme, vote short, with 7 in ellipsis both upfront and at the end, 1141 + 7. Equidistant ellipsis is a hallmark auditing trait of Bible meters; when you find it, you know the meter count is right. 63 is also a dateline: Moses writes 1400 BC, 63 sevens after Israel enslaved. Same 63 in Psalm 90.
Verse 31's 1050 = 490 + 70 + 490 civilization time 'house': vote for God as your refuge, or die. So, Trinity votes aka decrees, God the Holy Spirit speaking light into re-existence verse 3, after 'our' section of the universe got trashed (by Satan & Co, verse 2 and Isaiah 45), Holy Spirit playing 'mother hen', Hebrew מְרַחֶ֖פֶת. The remaining 7 (63 + 7) is voting in history. Moses thus writes end first year of Exodus, given a new 490 Time Grant (based on his maturation vote during the prior 70), 70 x 7 = 490 years after Joseph's enslavement back in 2176 from Adam's Fall. (Row 62 in the worksheet, 4th Timeline shift in the Bible: Adam to Noah, Noah to Abraham, Abraham to Joseph, then Joseph to Moses who turns God down in Numbers 14:12-20 so the time grant shifts, to Israel as a nation. You'd know this if you plotted from Genesis 5 forward, only using Bible's dates and only solar years. Verses used for the worksheet).
70 x 7 = 490 years before the time grant for Temple dedication ends (1440 - 950 BC: Solomon barely makes it, 1 Kings 6:1 compared to 9:1). You get that by inserting the 7 in ellipsis. All Bible writers employ ellipsis in their meters. They may also use other sevenings, and tag even the ellipses in other Bible passages.
Dateline B: 119 years after Moses born (2706 Exodus – 119 = 1520 BC). Also, 119 x 7 after Terah (Abraham's father) born. Parallel to Terah's own 'exodus' from Ur (Genesis 11:31), counting also from birth as an 'exodus' from the womb: parallel to water.
Verse 3: 63 light on vote.
As noted above, 63 'sevens' after Israel enslaved. Missing 7 from 70 = 63. Here's how that works: God votes, 35; result or response vote, the remaining 35, so a 'vote completion' = 70. But Light just turned on, vote is not complete, 'first day'. Clever play on elided 7 too, lollygagging seven days, to restore. Meter totals 1155, ellipsis = 14. For Israel's vote won't complete, but it can. Ellipsis 'time' begins when voting stops.
63 also tags the vote short of Satan & Co., who caused tohu wa bohu (תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ) in verse 2. Past is prologue: their vote stopped, so now turf they've wrecked is prepped for new voters: mankind. Moses' readers long knew this; but he draws water parallel ('moses' = drawn from the Water) between Israel's deliverance and Restoration Earth; so the world knows where to vote for the Real God.
Verse 5: 119 light on, first day ends.
As noted above, Moses writes when he's aged 119, the same year he dies: 119 x 7 after Terah is born.
God votes, since the 'Decree' = 84 + voting 35 = 119, but also 63 + 56, the combination here in view. Next, 126 (119 + 7) + 364 = 490. So 119 telegraphs Purpose of Day One will not be met on time. Thus Psalm 90:1-4 is 84, = 70 + 14; but Psalm 90:16-17 ("establish our hands" twice, Temple and Jerusalem rebuilt in time for Christ's scheduled Birth in 4106) is instead, 56: Future Temple threatened. See row 146.
By contrast in Genesis, 63 + 56 = 119, as the extra 7 will be given to Messiah's lifetime; God foreknew it wouldn't play. So this is a hint regarding Church as the Time Bridge, a theme echoed in 378 (verse 13). Yet Church was not prophesied, as it was up to Christ when He came, whether He'd WANT to pay for yet more souls. So pre-Christ, the prophecy was merely, there's a recurring problem: we keep missing our appointed times (verse 14's וּלְמ֣וֹעֲדִ֔ים).
Verse 6: 145 separation of waters, recreates atmosphere.
Maybe should be 147 but I can't force it; syllables don't seem to justify more. If there is justification for this, then 147 with an ellipsis: 77 x 2 = 154 - 7 = 147. Because of: 154 x 7 = 1078.
Verse 8: 210 Atmosphere restored, second day ends.
210 = overage now allocated, 70 then 140 now 210. Back on time. 210 x 7 = 1470 = years between initial Exodus and Christ's actual Death, to the very day; but 2870 BC means nothing (Kenan died).
Also, Moses writes 210 years after the 490 from Noah's death in 2100 BC. I don't know who picked up the time baton back in 1610 BC, didn't even know there was a 490 from Noah's death, or why this is sevened. Instead I find Noah's sons born 1556 from Adam's fall, + 490 = 2046 when Abraham matured. That deadline, every Bible book tracks.
Joseph's 490 started 2176, ends at Exodus. However, the next most-traced deadline, is 1000 from David's death (endpoint in Daniel 9:26, using solar years as Exodus 12 demands), so is Noahic from-death 490 a deadline? Or, Jochebed born 1610 BC? Translators wreck Exodus 6:20 and even Jews get it wrong. Maybe Exodus 2:1-2 is metered for her age. Or better, 1610 tags end of Hammurabi's Babylon (rounded), as Moses also tags Hammurabi's 'start' at 364, below. Hittite empire started here too: this implies that when Noahic protection ended, trouble began (foretaste of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28).
Verse 12: 364, separation of land and sea, then vegetation and 'year' = Noah in Boat.
364 = years 1st Temple will stand = Paul's Ephesians 1:3-14 'Year of Church' (playing off Genesis 1's four 91s) + 70 to make 62 weeks' analogy (Church to Bridge Time back to Daniel 9:27). So, vegetation sprouts after dry land is supernaturally restored, so growth is independent, not finished; so the processes we see now, are long-term results of that day, not the initial process, which Yes, was a miracle. He instantly did it all the first time, Genesis 1:1. Yet He now chooses to redo it slowly and comically, per 24-hour 'day'. Revelation uses 364 also, to front a drama quadrilogy per Aristotle's Poetics. Genesis is no less biting, but Revelation is on the finish of that habitation to get ready for eternity, ties directly back here to Genesis.
What deadline and/or event might 1400 + 364, 'tag'?
Well, it would be apt as Hammurabi did that via flooding, goal of uniting the 'world'. Funny how mankind craves over uniting under one ruler and glorifies past empires, yet calls imperialism, ipse 'evil'. Babylonia had an insane code of laws (accused jumps in a river, is guilty if he sinks) which didn't mate penalty to crime nor allow mitigating circumstance. So does Moses 'tag' Hammurabi to satirize? Hammurabi belongs to the third 1050 'day', like Israel. Mosaic Law satirizes everything pagan, to show God provides a better Law. And/or, 364 or 364 + 7 x 7? Which takes us back to Adam: 109 or 158 post-Fall (364 x 7 = 2548 or (364 + 7) x 7 = 2597 then add 1400), but what event?
Verse 13: 378 third day ends.
70 years after Jacob dies, so too dies Egypt's 12th Dynasty (1785 BC. 1400 + 378 + 7), who enslaved Israel within 50 years after Joseph also died (1400 + 378 + 7 = 1785 BC, Jacob = Israel dying in 1853 and Joseph in 1836). Now 14 'late' (378 - 364): Jacob's extra servitude, two families then 'sprouting'. Cutely depicted as separation between dry land and water, after atmosphere restored on the 2nd day, so now vegetation. Freedom to congregate or separate, to be in the 'sea' (or land) of people and thus drown, or sail/walk away to survive.
Isaiah 53:1-12's meter = 385; fronting 77 in verse 52:13-15 (where in the Hebrew, Isaiah 53 begins) = David's lifetime. Messiah is to 'absorb' the extra 7 in His lifetime. God repeats that in Daniel 9:26's '62 weeks'. But Christ Last Adam, dies end of 61st week, 378 not 385. So 1400 BC Moses writes, plus 378 x 7 = 60 years after Adam's Fall, a kind of 61 (1400 + 2646 = 4046 + 60 = 4106 when Adam fell; the anniversary of 60th year begins 61st year). Enough time for three generations plus Adam.
Meters between 378 and 560, display 'appointed times' (וּלְמ֣וֹעֲדִ֔ים) for Day Four. Why? These 'appointments' caused Israel to be enslaved and get free. They are:
Verse 19: 560 fourth day ends, sun and moon signs of Time.
Voting period 490 + 70 = 560. Jacob enters Haran 560 years before Moses writes; Jacob entered, 490 years after the Flood; he enters Egypt, in 91st year after he entered Haran, knowing full well the eventual slavery promised Abraham. So Moses plays on both 490, a voting deadline for one believer to supermature and on 70, the mass voting by all believers on earth, to learn God. Sum is 560, and if that 70 isn't also met, time ends. 80 weeks, 52 + 28, equals Time from autumnal equinox fiscal prior (whole year) to start of 2nd Passover week.
Note that God did not restore stars and moon to start vegetation; and, some were already there. Takes 3 days for wet seeds to sprout in darkness. So much for clueless Bible debunkers who disdain verses 14-19, as the skylights aren't created (really, restored) until the 4th day. Genesis keeps repeating it's a miracle: God speaks, and it is so. How else can you differentiate Him from a natural process?
So now we have to look at the components of 560:
These meters are all over Bible. 91 stands for 'quarter' and 'Tribulation' (Christ's 90th birthday, begins His 91st year), 70 for voting, 56 for voting in danger. All Bible writers use them that way, starting with Moses himself, both here and in Psalm 90.
Verse 21b: 651 fifth day teeming sea and air life.
Since land vegetation needs time to grow, sea and air come first (birds can dive for fish, rest on land). God did it all supernaturally; but He uses sequence to teach principles man needs to learn. 651 + elided 7 = 658 = years from Abraham's maturation (1400 + 658 = 2058, counting from end maturation year to start writing year on autumnal fiscal, so 2058 = 2060). 686 is obvious: Genesis 12, God tells (= 35 meter) Abram age 75 to leave his dad, so maybe Terah went negative? (Abraham born 2160 BC – 75 = end 2086 BC = 1440 + 686). Note that sometimes ellipsis is used to make meter fit the text. Here, idea of profit, 'fifth'. Profit of listening to God (686 + 0) followed by the profit of maturation (651 + 7).
Verse 23: 700 fifth day ends with flora and fauna on sea and air, vegetation on land.
This makes sense too, as it allows time for the animals to figure out where the food is and get it (even if made by miracle). 700 - 365.25 = 334.75 days into a 'second' year. (Psalm 90 is 350 syllables spanning Decree of God regarding man, to Adam's vote, then Noah's vote, then Moses' vote, then that future hanging chad which is the last 70-year historical voting period pre-Christ). If calling Year One at 701 x 7, Adamic year would be 2450 at 1050 = end 5th contiguous 490, just before Ahmose I. Yet Decree to create man starts syllable 766. So:
Moses writes 700 years after Noah died in 2100 BC. 350 (35 + 315) years later is 1050 from Noah's death; 1050 years after that, Messiah was to be born, 2100 years after Noah died. The Lord ends up, born 3 years prior due to David's late crowning and Solomon starting Temple late. The 735 dates back to when Terah took a still-too-young Abram and his brother to Haran, Genesis 11:31 (1400 + 735 = 2135 BC). Genesis 12, God orders Abram at age 75 to leave his father, 49 years later (686, implies Abram's family went apostate 14 years after Noah died). Again, theme is 'exodus' as a kind of 'birth', separation and dedication to God.
Verse 31: 1050 sixth day ends, fauna on land, then mankind.
Moses writes 1050 years after the Flood. 1050 x 7 = 7350, might be why Jews maintain total allotted time = 7000 years (as shorthand) in Sanhedrin 97-99 of Talmud. Yet it's the sixth day, not seventh. If we continue accounting 1050 as Year One, Abram renamed AvRAHam age 100: the 1050 actually starting then (David's crowning deadline met in 3096, but only over Hebron), makes a lot of sense now.
So Adamic year 2046, is here put on a new time track as Year One. 2100 years allotted to the Jews, begins 2046.5 from Adam's Fall. Moses uses 1050 equidistantly in Psalm 90, written 40 years later: there, he writes in the 1051st year after the Flood; when his 350(!) syllable = years (for the Judges, a second time track) ends, another 1050 years remain to Messiah's Birth, also originally based on Abraham's maturation: the Lord was to be born 4106, 2000 years after Jacob, die 4146, 2100 years after Abram renamed. By contrast here, Moses writes 1010 years after the Flood. The scheduled death of Messiah is also 1010 years after David will retire from Kingship over all Israel; the Lord actually dies 1000 years after David's retirement. See the Time Distance Chart, here.
The next issue: as noted above, this 'sixth day' meter also stands for 1050 + 7 : remember the ending 7 also in ellipsis (total of 2 sevens)? The idea is that God foreknows Time will run past the initial design and has made provision for it. So here you have mathemathical proof that God doesn't coerce volition, but instead Provides Freedom, and then makes good on it. Moses will do this same thing in Psalm 90, ensconcing 14 with the 70 to form an '84' as the tally for Psalm 90:1-4; Meaning? Decree, which all of the other Bible writers will tag. The extra 7 between 84 and 91 (seventh day meter, 1141 - 1050), will end up playing during Church. Its final provenance is Christ dying 7 years early, which goes undetected by scholars who use lunar years in Daniel 9:26. Bible only and always requires solar year accounting. So if they followed Bible instead of culture, they would all see the extra seven years as the 62nd week, ending 37 AD, and would stop being preterists or fellow dispensationalists, who shoehorn a lunar calculation that doesn't balance either. The Bible's calculation is instead, in solar years:
Verse(s) 32, 34 (2:1, 2:3): 1141 seventh day, 'rest', signifies provision to resolve Angelic Conflict is completed
1050 + 91 with 7 in ending ellipsis. God did HIS Vote. Now, it's our turn.
The 1141 is 163 sevens, which as days are = 3 years + 45.25 days. Now you know why 1335 - 1290 days in Daniel 12 (counting backwards from 2nd Advent) = the exit window at mid-tribulation (Revelation 11, when the witnesses are killed, last opportunity to get out during the chaos after the earthquake, before the Revelation 13:15 statue is set up, day 1221 of the tribulation through day 1266)
The 1067 in verse 21 using tsaba'oth = armies warring (צְבָאָֽם׃ in the text), is your deft clue that the seventh day involves the Angelic Conflict. It's unfortunate that the arrogance of religious humans won't allow for beings higher than themselves, to be the proximate cause of their creation; that we belittle these angelic beings made by GOD, into red horns and tail, wisps on the wind, or androgenous figures in trenchcoats; or worse, that our theologies are silent about bald passages like angels cohabiting with humans, in Genesis 6. The hoary heads explain that all away, just as atheists try to explain away a universe that clearly is not its own cause. So we miss the why of our existence, of a tribulation: to resolve the Angelic Conflict, not our own. Man is the stadium on which this trial is played, and how man votes for or against God, is trial evidence. Revelation makes that plain, using standard Greek drama style in Aristotle's poetics, so there's no hidden meaning, no hidden code, but a well-known rhetorical style any Greek reader would recognize immediately. But if you obscure it in translation or teaching, then your students, won't know. So God starts that trial theme, right here in Genesis, and all metered passages reference it.
Unfortunately, the childish and anti-semitic 'theologies' of the past 2000 years, so hungry to cut out the Jews, totally missed why Tribulation and Millennium: as a reward to CHRIST for beating Satan. This fact is trenchantly explained in Hebrews Chapter 1 onward. (Hebrews pins its text to Mark for flow-of-points outline, then on Peter for content, on Ephesians for 'walls' and the Church History prophecy, all tied back to Jeremiah 3, 31, and Psalm 110). We saw the Conflict in Genesis 1:2, Earth suddenly tohu wa bohu (see Isaiah 45:18-19 and the videos on the verses). Something went WRONG. Conclusion for us moderns, since our ancestors didn't pass on what they learned from Moses, is that the demons made this planet their home, and trashed it up. In short, this Conflict is on their turf. Coupled with Job 1 and 2, Matthew 4, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, you can well derive all you need to know regarding how this Conflict plays, why Satan's fighting, etc. Here though, we see the legal impetus for man's creation. It was intended anyway, given axiomatic language on the sixth day: Let us Create does not say, 'due to the Trial' as a legal preamble.
When you realize you're part of something far bigger than your normal 'world' of tea-and-baguette, then you look UP. We are in a war not our making, but we must choose sides. Thus begins the siring of the man to pay for a mankind He authorizes, exist. Meanwhile, that Love motive serves to answer Satan & Co. as to why going low, is better than standing atop some mountain beating your chest, chortling about how good you are. And we humans, well... we keep choosing that mountain of Satan, ignoring the mountain of sins Christ unilaterally absorbed so we could live on His mountain, instead
Victory is not in numbers. It's in the quality of your life. Quality of life is internal, not external. Happy when hurting, Hebrews 12:2, vs. hurting when happy, Psalm 37, Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36, Luke 9:25. Only God can give you the former, since it requires you think like Him. He's happy. All the tribulations hit Him first. So how can HE be happy? Learn to think like Him rather than like Satan, and you'll know. That dramatic theme starts right here: keyword tsabaoth, alerts you.
The pattern and symmetry here is not at all like Psalm 90; yet most of these meters are used in Psalm 90, and all the two-digit meters are used in every Bible book I've parsed thus far (all of the New Testament datelines, for example). Each Bible book uses at least one of the three- or four-digit meters. So the Genesis meter precedent is followed. Whether the other books 'tag' Genesis 1 at these meters, I'm not yet sure. Genesis does establish doctrinal meaning for each meter. Of course, combinations of these meters and their totals, allow for many more usages.
Moreover, some of the meters are compounds, like 42 (28 + 14 above) = 3 x 14, which Matthew uses in his genealogy. 77 is visual shorthand for 490, used by Isaiah 52:13-15 for David's lifetime, and thus by Luke 3 for his genealogy. In short, there is a much proof that these meters are deliberate cross-reference and doctrinal shorthand tools, not arcane mystery numbers to wow the reader. They are meant to be learned and lived on, just like the text, and they interact with the text. Would be nice, if we all started learning them. Painful at first, but rewarding. If you want certitude that this is God's Word, you're looking at how to get it. For only God can orchestrate REAL TIME to match meter numbers in a book claimed to be from Him, over and over and over.
Here, the real total is maybe 1155, including both sevens in ellipsis (one beginning, one ending). 165 sevens. Same idea as adding 14 to 1141 at the end. For the start should have been 70, not 63. Somehow God's telling you the harvesting of history, this way. 1078 + 77 = 1155. But I'm not sure how to read all the meters, yet. It's real tempting to claim that allotted time including Church is 1155 x 7, but that's not necessarily true. If it were true, then the meter would have to be somewhere in the New Testament. All presently found New Testament meters go no higher than Peter's 483 which ties back to Daniel 9. Even Revelation 1's meter goes no higher than the 364.
