He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.

他表达意愿希望有光，于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中，创世过程中有性的因素。

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When God began this process of creating the heaven and the earth, And the earth was unformed and void, And his wind was on the surface of the deep and so on, He said, "Let there be light and there was light."

当上帝开始开创天地的过程，大地一片混沌，虚空无形，他的呼吸掠过这混沌的表面，他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“

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It's better translated this way: He said, 'Let there be light and there was light.'" And that translation suggests that the story isn't concerned to depict the ultimate origins of the universe.

这样翻译会更好：,他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“,这样说便表明故事并不旨在描述,宇宙最初的起源。

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