Directions Read the following passages from the Hebrew Bible.
Reading 1: From the Torah
And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was
evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh
day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from allHis work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because
that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.
-Genesis 1:31–2:3, JPS Tanakh 1917
What does the writer describe in the passage
