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Jdt Judith
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Wis Wisdom of Solomon
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Sir Sirach
Josh Joshua
Bar Baruch
Judg Judges1–3
Esd Esdras
Ruth Ruth
Ep Jer Letter of Jeremiah
1–2 Sam Samuel
Sg Three Song of Three Young Men
1–2 Kgs Kings
Sus Susanna
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Bel Bel and the Dragon
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Pr Man Prayer if Manasseh
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1 The Pentateuch
The First Seven Days: Version One
In the beginning God Created heaven and earth. The earth was unformed and dark. The Spirit of God Encircled the earth. And God Said “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God Saw that the light was good. Then God Separated the light from the darkness. And there was evening and morning on the first day. Gen I, 1–4. The earth was filled with water and God Made a Celestial Sphere and Separated waters beneath it and above it. God Called The Celestial Sphere “Heaven.” The second day ended. On the third day God Separated the waters beneath the Celestial Sphere and Called the dry land “Earth” which generated grasses, herbs, and all manner of trees. On the fourth day the Celestial Lights ( the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets) issued forth to illume the night and to mark the seasons. On the fifth day all manner of creatures inhabited the earth. On the sixth day God Created Humans to be merciful caretakers of Creation. On the seventh day, after all was finished, God Rested and Declared it Sabbath Ordained a holy day, to be kept every week as a joyous day of rest. Gen I, 6 ff.
Day 1. In the Beginning there was The Sacred Source,
Within which God, Perfect and Without Equal Exists.
From that Source endless, dark, multicolored, formless space
Arose and silently stretched its vastness
And returned to surround the Sacred Source.
Then did God Bless the expanding space.
God Exists in Space and Space reflects God’s Infinity.
Day 2. Then gasses formed and mixed rising vapors and prisms.
Then God Gathered clusters of gasses
And Cradled them and Pressed them closely and lovingly
Until multicolored fires ignited
And Scattered them to give birth to orbs of suns and stars.
And the stars released oxygen into the cosmos.
Each heavenly light shone God’s Dazzling Radiance and spread God’s Thermonuclear Warmth.
Then did God Bless the suns and stars and all astral generations.
Then did each fiery orb release many kinds of dust, each with its own electrical charges.
Some dusts drifted aimlessly; others slammed into one another and formed mass;
Some hardened into rocks; others melted into rivers of metal.
God Exists in suns, stars, sands, rocks and they reflect God’s Creative Fires.
Day 3. Then God Gathered and Combined emerging gasses and dusts
And Formed planets, each with its own distance from the Sun;
Each with its own motion:
Each with its own orbit according to an ordained schedule.
No planet falling; no planet failing; each held in place by gravity.
Then were the planets and their seasons Blessed
For they were all good to God.
God Exists in planets whose rhythm reflect God’s Peerless Design.
Day 4. Gasses spread and surrounded the Earth planet,
Admitting Light so that Creation’s Works could be seen
Yet providing a protective shield to the eyes
And allowing warmth to pass through the atmosphere
While protecting all creatures from burning.
The Sun tended the spinning Earth by day and the moon by night.
Newly emerging gasses collided, separated and broke away
And recombined to form seas where life would flourish.
And gasses rising from the seas united with other elements to form air for breathing.
Moving land masses collided to make mountains rise from the seas
Hiding minerals beneath the great depths.
Then did God Bless the Earth planet and all planets yet to be born in the cosmos.
God Exists in all planets whose seas, atmosphere, and hills reflect God’s Heights and Depths.
Day 5. Proteins, dusts, sodium, zinc, ammonia, cesium, and cobalt drifted idly.
Then God Mixed these elements with ocean sprays and Whirled them in Mystic Broth.
Then Did God Make an ocean vent rise and warm the salty broth
Until the elements coalesced.
And then there was Life.
Bacteria. Cells.
Mitochondria! Messengers of God!
Then did God Create amino acids: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
Then did God Twist the helix of amino acids and Rearrange them in infinite patterns,
Bridging them with sugars and phosphates in spiraling ladders.
The emerging proteins became the endless fonts of life.
Mitochondria, attaching themselves to mothers’ generative cells,
Energized the helix.
Then did God’s Messengers Breathe life into the generative cells
And Gave each creature a