translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: GEN

label: NET study note

text: For a study of the Levitical terminology of “clean” and “unclean,” see L. E. Toombs, IDB 1:643.


text: On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.


text: The Hebrew verb translated “prevailed over” suggests that the waters were stronger than the earth. The earth and everything in it were no match for the return of the chaotic deep.