佐哈尔·贝莱希特 59

1NOW THE EARTH WAS FORMLESS AND VOID, as we have explained. “The earth” here is the upper earth, which has no light of its own. It “was” at first in its proper state, but now “void and without form”, having diminished itself and its light. Tohu (formlessness), bohu (void), “darkness”, and “spirit” were the four elements of the world which were comprised in it. Hence, “the earth was formless and void and darkness and spirit”.