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Opinions are divided. The first verse appears to announce and summarize what follows (as asserted by Cassuto, for example), and as such, it contains all the details of the act of creation, in the sense that God (Elohim) created everything out of everything, both sides of the world, that of heaven and that of earth, which stand opposite to each other, like God and the image standing before him when he creates the Other.
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Benyamini, I. (2016). Chapter One: The Creation of God. In: A Critical Theology of Genesis. Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59509-6_2
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