Genesis 1:11
Verse
A Sprout Raised Up from the Earth on the Third Day
And mighty ones is saying, "The Earth is sprouting a sprout of grass, he who sows a seed of a fruit tree, he has made fruit to and from ourselves straightly of his seed within himself upon the Earth, and an upright one is becoming."And God said, Let the earth sprout tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed, the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it on the earth. And it was so.
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.
Footnotes
| 25 | Strong’s #1877, deshe. A sprout, or shoot. Singular noun form of the verb to sprout. Not specifically food for Adam. Commonly understood as green, tender, new growth, fresh grass, etc. That which is eaten by herds and livestock, Job 6:5. |
| 26 | The Self Referential Paradox of Life Which comes first, the seed or the tree? Genesis 1:11 presents a challenging text. Pick any translation and you'll find a lot of words crammed into a sentence that makes little sense. Translation traditions swapped the verb "sowing" with words like "yielding" or "bearing" or "seeding". But the word is in the causative participle form of to sow or scatter seed, i.e one who sows seed. Is the grass sowing a seed? Or, is the seed itself(himself) sowing a tree? This verse lacks any vav-conjunction which makes it challenging to break down the thoughts, yet the words themselves are plain. “Because the whole flesh is as grass, and the whole glory of her as a flower of grassy-place; the grassy-place dries up and the flower falls away.” 1 Pet. 1:24 literal Mathematics "fundamental flaw" of incompleteness means essentially math cannot prove itself. This kind of self-reference with seed leads to interesting philosophical or logical considerations. It creates a situation where the action of sowing is directed back onto the seed itself, implying a self-generating or self-propagating quality. Hence the self referencing paradox of I am whom I am, or, I am being who I am being. And the Christ, the Good Seed, and his family of heavenly brothers, Another parable he put before them, saying, the kingdom/queen of the heavenly ones has become like a man who sowed a good seed in his field. (Matthew 13:24 RBT) This is a parable representing the paradox of Christ as both the man and the good seed. We learn that he is "sowing himself": Life begets Life. This leads to the reasoning that Christ proves himself, as life proves itself. "I am being who I am being." and "I am the Life." In otherwords, He is the Life, and, the Life is He. The Hebrews embedded this paradox in the hebrew verb roots נונ nun (Strong's #5125) and היה hayah (Strong's #1961) as well which mean to propagate and to be/become respectively. Notice also the verb roots can be spelled backwards and forwards. They are the only two verbs in Hebrew whose letters are "reflected". Further, we can perhaps see something to the dual nature of life in that life proves life. And thus death is that which should disprove life. If all life dies, was it life to begin with? This would perhaps answer the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Consider the verb swallowed in the complete form in Isaiah 25:8, He has swallowed up the Death forever/perpetually. |
| 27 | "Making Oneself" You have heard it said "according to its kind." (cf. Strong’s #4327, מן min. Form, race, species, kind.) This is also the preposition "from". Strong's #4480, מן min from ל-מינ-הוּ to-from-himself ל-מינ-וּ to-from-ourselves This is a compound of the two prepositions to and from and the suffix himself. This was missed because it is language from an eternal point of reference. From himself to himself in the circuit of time. The connotation is quite close, nonetheless to the idea of "after its kind" since such a seed is "creating himself". But bias affects what we see, i.e. the mind above vs. the mind below. |
| 28 | Hebrew אֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעֹו־בֹ֖ו, asher zaro bo. Literally, “Which his seed is in-himself”. The verse progresses between three levels of vegetation: from a general “shoot” to a “grass with seed” to a “fruit making fruit wood”. The Hebrew preposition -ב means “in”. The suffix added to prepositions gives a reflexive, passive, or possessive sense and thus should not be confused with the accusative sense, i.e. into him which would be signified by אֵל, towards, into. בּֽוֹ = in-himself, לּוֹ = to-himself. |