O the Humanity!

O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?

Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!

You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,

The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

 O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

                                Psalm 8

Filling Up

Then Yahweh spoke with the word, “Waters, swim with swimming things.” And various kinds of creatures appeared in the water, so the waters were no longer free to rise up.  Then Yahweh spoke with the word, “Expanse, be flown in with flying things.” And various kinds of flying creatures appeared in the lower heaven.  Yahweh spoke with the word to the swimming and flying things,  “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the waters and fill the air.” Then Yahweh spoke with the word, “Land, live with living creatures,” and various kinds of animals appeared on the land.

“Fish are food, not friends”

Then Yahweh spoke with the word to all the powers, “Humans are made in our image, so they will rule as a power over the air, over the water and over the land.”  And so Yahweh created Humans in the image of the gods in the higher heavens in two forms—male and female.  And Yahweh said with the word to the humans, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the land and keep it in line.  You are in charge over all the flying creatures, all the swimming creatures and all the living creatures on the land.  Rule well.”

The End of the Beginning

In this way, Yahweh conquered his enemies and established Humans as rulers over the earth.