Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.
Ibn Ezra
בורא שמים He that shaped the heavens. There is a line, by which they are bordered. And stretched them out over the earth; comp. רקיע expanse (Gen. 1:6). רוקע He that spread forth. ק has Pathah because of the ע which follows; comp. הנוטע he who planted (Psa. 94:9). And that which cometh out of it. The plants which grow upon the surface of the earth. לעם עליה נותן נשמה He that giveth a soul unto the people upon it, that is, to man. ורוח להלכים בה And breath to them that walk therein, that is, to the animals. Upon it is used in the first instance, because man walks upright.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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