particular (first four commands, vv. 1–13); (2) the adornment of the cosmos, from the imperfect to the perfect (second four commands, vv. 14–31). The account rises to a crescendo in the eighth command, the creation of human beings. The whole chapter reads less like a story than a carefully constructed report of a series of commands. Similarly, ch. 5 and 11:10–32 are genealogies shaped to repeat the same structure for each generation. Again, ch. 10, an ethno-geographical list, is marked by a similar