Genesis 8:5
וְ הַ מַּיִם הָיוּ הָלֹוךְ וְ חָסֹור עַד הַ חֹדֶשׁ הָ עֲשִׂירִי בָּ עֲשִׂירִי בְּ אֶחָד לַ חֹדֶשׁ נִרְאוּ רָאשֵׁי הֶ הָרִים
and the Dual-Waters have become, walking and decreasing,306 until the Tenth New-one; in the Tenth, in one307 to the New-one, have become seen the shaking-ones of the mountains.
| 307 | Hebrew בְּאֶחָ֣ד, be-echad. In one. Since this is different from the adjective first, רִאשׁוֹן rishon, used 182 times in the Scriptures, it is not rendered on the first but more accurately in one. Hence the distinction in Exodus 40:2, “In the hot-one of the first [rishon] month, in one [echad] to the month…” and in Exodus 12:15, “on the first [rishon] hot-one…”. This translation preserves the distinction between first hot-one and in one. |