Gregorii Abil-Pharagii

Dyn. I.

And the years. So the fixed stars were studded in the eighth sphere, along with the planets and the five wandering stars, each in its own sphere. The sun took over the dominion of the day, and the moon took over the dominion of the night, while the ninth sphere remained alone, unmoved/silent.

On Thursday, God, the Exalted, created the great sea monsters, every soul moving in the water, and every winged bird. On Friday, God, the Exalted, commanded the earth, and it brought forth its creatures, beasts, predators, and insects. Then He addressed His angels, saying: "Come, let us create man in our image and likeness, knowing good and evil, capable of performing them."

So a hand was extended containing parts of the four elements, and the breath of life was blown into it. Adam was found as a youth. Then God cast a sleep upon him and removed one of his ribs from his right side and created from it Eve, the mother of humanity. He settled them in the Paradise of Eden, which is the Garden and its station toward the east. He permitted them to eat of all the fruits of the Garden, except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He followed that with the Sabbath, for He created nothing in it. Some of our scholars, Mar Gregory of Nyssa and Jacob of Edessa, argue that all creatures were found at the same moment, and that the Divine Book only specified the being of each entity to teach us the orderliness of things and that God