1 Bereshis (in the Beginning) was the Dvar Hashem,*1:1 Isa 55:11; Gn 1:3 and the Dvar Hashem was agav (along with, etzel)*1:1 Prov 8:30; 30:4 Hashem, and the Dvar Hashem was nothing less, by nature, than Elohim!*1:1 Ps 56:10 [11]; Yn 17:5; Rv 19:13 i.e., the Ma’amar Memra 2 Bereshis (in the Beginning) this Dvar Hashem was with Hashem.*1:2 Prov 8:30 3 All things through him came to be, and without him came to be not one thing which came into being.*1:3 Ps 33:6,9; Prov 30:4