>and then it just turns into such a swirling self-effacing melodramatic but poetic drivel... It's a book to love and hate
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>Opening of the most famous work of fiction in the history of the world...
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> In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
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Of course, that's only one translation (albeit the most famous). The current translation used in the Jewish world is "When God began to create the heavens and the earth."

Tamar