dispute among biblical scholars as to how these phrases relate the text that precedes the phrase to the text that comes after. Nevertheless, ten of the occurrences are related to genealogies (§ 29.1). Hence at first it may seem odd that ‘elleh toledot as a literary structuring device would be introduced with reference to “the heavens and the earth,” a phrase intended to exhaustively include everything created. However, if we see the ministerial activity of the creation as a form of divine action