{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis-woh", "chapter": 1 }, "data": { "n": 1, "bookSlug": "genesis-woh", "bookCode": "GEN-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "Genesis 1 — When the Elohim began to shape", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.1.0","sourceText":"Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad)","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml","sourceAccessedVia":"sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.1","glossaryVersion":"2.20.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-05-24T10:00:00+00:00","status":"reviewer-approved","updated":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","i18nFanout":{"languages":["en","de","es","fr","ja","ko","ru","zh","zh-Hant","he"],"firstFanout":"2026-06-07","method":"parallel-agent-fanout-from-en"},"reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-8 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00","scope":"Genesis 1 (creation account, P): all 25 noted verses reviewed against source-he-1.json.","reviewNote":"Philology verified: bereshit construct (Rashi/NJPS), the bara/asah/yatsar verb-pattern, raqia='dome' (root raqa, LXX stereoma), meorot/luminaries demythologization of shemesh/yareach, na'aseh plural (v26), tselem/demut concrete-physical core (BDB 'something cut out'). The v26 tselem 'DNA/genetic' extension and v11 designed-kinds reading are explicitly flagged speculative in-note and kept out of the translated text. Lens-leakage: none.","citations":["BDB / HALOT s.v. bara, raqia, tselem, demut; Sarna JPS Genesis; E. van Wolde, 'Why the verb bara does not mean to create', JSOT 34.1 (2009)"],"verdicts":[{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:1","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:22","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:24","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:27","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:28","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:29","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:30","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-1:31","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."}],"glossaryReview":[],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:1", "text": "When the Elohim began to shape the skies and the land—" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:2", "text": "—the land being wasteland and emptiness, with darkness over the face of the deep, and the breath of the Elohim hovering over the face of the waters—" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:3", "text": "The Elohim said, \"Let there be light\"; and there was light." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:4", "text": "And the Elohim saw that the light was good; and the Elohim separated between the light and the darkness." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:5", "text": "And the Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, day one." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:6", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate between waters and waters.\"" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:7", "text": "And the Elohim made the dome, and separated between the waters which were under the dome and the waters which were above the dome. And it was so." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:8", "text": "And the Elohim called the dome Skies. And there was evening and there was morning, day two." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:9", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let the waters under the skies be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.\" And it was so." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:10", "text": "And the Elohim called the dry ground Land, and the gathering of the waters he called Seas. And the Elohim saw that it was good." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:11", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let the land sprout vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees making fruit according to their kind, in which is their seed, upon the land.\" And it was so." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:12", "text": "And the land brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kind, and trees making fruit in which is their seed according to their kind. And the Elohim saw that it was good." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:13", "text": "And there was evening and there was morning, day three." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:14", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let there be luminaries in the dome of the skies to separate between the day and the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times, and for days and years;" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:15", "text": "and let them be as luminaries in the dome of the skies, to give light upon the land.\" And it was so." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:16", "text": "And the Elohim made the two great luminaries: the greater luminary for the governance of the day, and the lesser luminary for the governance of the night; and the stars." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:17", "text": "And the Elohim set them in the dome of the skies to give light upon the land," },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:18", "text": "and to rule in the day and in the night, and to separate between the light and the darkness. And the Elohim saw that it was good." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:19", "text": "And there was evening and there was morning, day four." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:20", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let the waters swarm with swarms of living beings, and let birds fly above the land across the face of the dome of the skies.\"" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:21", "text": "And the Elohim shaped the great dragons, and every living being that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And the Elohim saw that it was good." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:22", "text": "And the Elohim blessed them, saying, \"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let the birds multiply on the land.\"" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:23", "text": "And there was evening and there was morning, day five." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:24", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let the land bring forth living beings according to their kind: cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the land according to their kind.\" And it was so." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:25", "text": "And the Elohim made the beasts of the land according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. And the Elohim saw that it was good." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:26", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the skies, and over the cattle, and over all the land, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the land.\"" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:27", "text": "And the Elohim shaped humankind in their image; in the image of the Elohim they shaped him; male and female they shaped them." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:28", "text": "And the Elohim blessed them. And the Elohim said to them, \"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the land, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the skies, and over every living thing that moves upon the land.\"" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:29", "text": "And the Elohim said, \"Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the face of all the land, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree bearing seed; to you it shall be for food." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:30", "text": "And to every living thing of the land, and to every bird of the skies, and to every thing that moves upon the land in which is a living being—every green plant for food.\" And it was so." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "GEN-WOH-1:31", "text": "And the Elohim saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/1", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }