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A Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Part I, From Adam to Noah (Genesis I–VI 8) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The aim of this commentary is to explain, with the help of a historico-philological method of interpretation, the simple meaning of the Biblical text, and to arrive, as nearly as possible, at the meaning the words of the Torah were intended to have for the reader at the time they were written. The present work is rich in original insights and scholarly illuminations that make it an invaluable...

for emphasis), each of which consists of seven words and contains in the middle the expression the seventh day: And on THE SEVENTH DAY God finished His work which He had done, and He rested on THE SEVENTH DAY from all His work which He had done. So God blessed THE SEVENTH DAY and hallowed it. (m). The words in the seventh paragraph total thirty-five—five times seven. To suppose that all this is a mere coincidence is not possible. § 6. This numerical symmetry is, as it were, the golden thread that
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