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29Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. 30And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.
And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Another great podcast. I appreciated your comments on the Koran as well. I had read it (an additional duty of mine was once to teach cultural awareness for the U.S. Army) before I went to Iraq in an effort to understand the worldview I would be encountering. I think your comments on structure and tone are spot on and it took me a bit to really start to read it because I’m used to a more ‘coherent’ structure from the Torah, or New Testament.
I was curious related on your comment about Sura 2 being essentially the second page. Have you heard that the work is organized by sura length rather than chronologically?