Genesis 1:9
Hebrew Bible
7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day. 9 God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good. 11 God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Exodus 14:21
Hebrew Bible
19 The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. 20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night. 21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided. 22 So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. 23 The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea—all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Many writers have noted the great frequency with which the combat myth is described or alluded to in the Hebrew Bible. While it would be wrong to claim that the biblical narratives derive immediately from the Ugaritic one, it is unquestionable that they are joint heirs to one West Semitic strand of the tradition. They share many significant items of vocabulary (KTU 1.2; Psalm 104:6-7; Isaiah 50:2; Exodus 7:20, 14:21, 17:5; Psalm 88:17; Genesis 1, etc...), and both end up with the victor claiming a patrimony described as his “inheritance”. These points of contact are too numerous to claim that any similarity is superficial and inconsequential. They are evidently organically linked. The biblical versions have diversified in form and purpose, and many allusions are merely the choice of key words or phrases to evoke the tradition without expanding it. Of particular significance for our present discussion is the passage in the middle of Psalm 74, verses 13-14, 15 ..."
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