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GENESIS - IN THE BEGINNING. THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME. BY FABIÁN MASSA

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Translated from Spanish to English with Google Translator. The name Genesis comes from the Greek Γένεσις, and means origin, beginning and was named in the LXX [1]. It is the first of the books of the Pentateuch [2] or Torah (the Law). The transliterated Hebrew name is Bereshit, meaning In the beginning, since it is an oriental custom to call the books by their first words. Both the Greek name and the Hebrew correctly suggest the content of it. Genesis has a magnetism that inevitably catches the reader, is the first book of the Bible and it tells the origin of all things, how God made the heavens and the earth is to say everything that exists, implying that God is Prior to Creation [3]. This book can be divided into two parts: