21st Century Bible Hebrew -- catchup

I apologize, I got distracted by car trouble on May 3 when I failed to post this.

Genesis 1:30-31

ל וּֽלְכָל־חַיַּ֣ת הָ֠אָ֠רֶץ וּלְכָל־ע֨וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם וּלְכֹ֣ל ׀ רוֹמֵ֣שׂ עַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ֙ נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֔ה אֶת־כָּל־יֶ֥רֶק עֵ֖שֶׂב לְאָכְלָ֑ה וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן:

לא וַיַּ֤רְא אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔ה וְהִנֵּה־ט֖וֹב מְאֹ֑ד וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם הַשִּׁשִּֽׁי:

Translation: and for all the wild animals and all flyers of the heavens and for all that creeps on the earth that has the soul of life, all green plants, for food; it must have been so.

Gd manifested all that He had made, behold its very great goodness; there must have been evening, there must have been morning, the sixth day.

Verse 30 helps me argue what I said about verse 29. We all know there are animals that now don’t eat grass; they may use it for a sort of medicine to clear gastric obstructions, but they get their best nourishment by eating other animals.

There is related material in the next narrative which relates these two verses to two verses in Parshah Noach. I’ll point it out when I get there, and then I want you to think back to here.

This is where chapter 1 ends in most Bibles and, for cross-reference purposes, also in Jewish Bibles. But Jewish Bibles also cross-reference to readings in Ashkenazic synagogues, and the cross-reference is to the 8 honorary readings on Shabbat. Somebody in the congregation is called to stand with the person reading the week’s portion out loud, and a fixed section is read in honor of that person. The first one is supposed to be for a kohen, the second for a Levite, and all the rest for other congregationists.  They are called aliyot because the reader is usually standing on a bimah, a stage, with steps leading up to it and aliyah means going up.

The first weekly portion is Breshit. We are not yet at the end of the first aliyah. The very next verb tells us that and shows us why the chapter division is in the wrong place.   More on that next time, because it illustrates an important point about nifal and other binyanim in a related class.

Until then, go here:

https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm

And then run this audio while you read the chapter.

https://www.mechon-mamre.org/mp3/t0101.mp3