Genesis 1:12
וַתּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע לְמִינֵהוּ וְעֵץ עֹֽשֶׂה־פְּרִי אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ־בוֹ לְמִינֵהוּ וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃
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✦ The same verse in five languages
וַתּוֹצֵ֨א הָאָ֜רֶץ דֶּ֠שֶׁא עֵ֣שֶׂב מַזְרִ֤יעַ זֶ֙רַע֙ לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וְעֵ֧ץ עֹֽשֶׂה־פְּרִ֛י אֲשֶׁ֥ר זַרְעוֹ־ב֖וֹ לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃
καὶ ἐξήνεγκεν ἡ γῆ βοτάνην χόρτου, σπεῖρον σπέρμα κατὰ γένος καὶ καθ’ ὁμοιότητα, καὶ ξύλον κάρπιμον ποιοῦν καρπόν, οὗ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ κατὰ γένος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. καὶ ἴδεν ὁ θεὸς ὅτι καλόν.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Et protulit terra herbam virentem, et facientem semen juxta genus suum, lignumque faciens fructum, et habens unumquodque sementem secundum speciem suam. Et vidit Deus quod esset bonum.
Y produjo la tierra hierba verde, hierba que da simiente según su naturaleza, y árbol que da fruto, cuya simiente está en él, según su género: y vió Dios que era bueno.
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
✦ What the text says
Summary
Fulfillment report: the earth produces what verse 11 ordered. The command's vocabulary returns almost point by point, with small observable variations, and the work receives the assessment "good."
Key words
- to.Tze' (" brought forth", H3318) — hiphil narrative, feminine.
- 'E.sev ("plant[s]", H6212) — the seed-bearing plants.
- ze.ra' ("seed", H2233) — also repeated in "its seed."
- mi.Ne. ("kind", H4327) — twice, with the suffix "its."
- Tov ("[it was] good", H2895) — the closing assessment.
What the text says
The opening verb is a narrative hiphil (causative) tagged feminine ("she"): the earth, the grammatical subject, "brought forth" the vegetation. The fulfillment is thus narrated with the earth as grammatical agent, just as the command of verse 11 phrased it.
Comparing the two provided verses shows small variations. In the command, "according to its kind" appears only after the fruit tree; in the fulfillment it also accompanies the plants: 'E.sev ("plant[s]", H6212) bearing ze.ra' ("seed", H2233) "according to its kind." And where the command said "fruit tree producing fruit," the report reads 'Etz ("tree[s]", H6086) producing pe.Ri ("fruit", H6529), without the first "fruit." The relative clause with 'a.Sher ("which", H0834) again places the seed "in it." The close: i.Yar' ("he saw", H7200) in the narrative form, ki- ("that", H3588), and Tov ("[it was] good", H2895), a perfect per the provided morphology: "and God saw that it was good."
Differences between versions
The Septuagint repeats its double formula for the plants, "according to kind and according to likeness" (κατὰ γένος καὶ καθ' ὁμοιότητα), where the Hebrew has only "according to its kind." The Vulgate adds "unumquodque" ("each one"): "habens unumquodque sementem secundum speciem suam." The RV1909 renders the same Hebrew noun two different ways within the verse — "según su naturaleza" the first time and "según su género" the second — both for mi.Ne. ("kind", H4327).
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.