the stirring of the divine wind is the prelude to the creation of order out of chaos. This leads to the emergence of stable terrestrial life and the re-issuance of the command, first seen in Genesis 1:28, to procreate. “In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth.… Then God spoke to Noah, ‘… Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh … so that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply