וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִקָּו֨וּ הַמַּ֜יִם מִתַּ֤חַת הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ אֶל־מָק֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד וְתֵרָאֶ֖ה הַיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃
Lalu Allah berfirman, “Hendaklah air yang di bawah langit berkumpul ke satu tempat, sehingga tampaklah daratan!” Maka jadilah demikian.
Jerusalem Talmud Taanit
MISHNAH: On Sunday one reads, In the Beginning, there shall be a spread. On Monday, there shall be a spread, the waters shall come together. On Tuesday, the waters shall come together, there shall be lights. On Wednesday, there shall be lights, the water shall swarm. On Thursday, the water shall swarm, the earth shall produce. On Friday, the earth shall produce, the heavens and earth and all their hosts were finished140These are the details of the Torah readings by the bystanders mentioned in Mishnah 2. The problem is that the Mishnah in Megillah states that three people have to be called to read the Torah, each one a minimum of three verses, and if one starts a new paragraph one must read at least two verses from it, and at the end of a paragraph one must read at least three verses. Every day one reads two paragraphs in the story of Creation (Gen.1:1–2:3), but paragraph 1 only has five verses and paragraph 2 three. According to the rules, paragraph 1 should not be split. Similarly, on day 2 paragraph 2 has three verses but paragraph 3 has five, which raise the question how to accommodate second and third readers. The other days are no problem since paragraph 4 has six verses, paragraph 5 four, paragraph 6 eight, and paragraph 9 (Gen. 2:1–3) three..
A large paragraph is read by two persons, and a small one by an individual149A paragraph of 5 sentences may be split into 2 readings as explained in Halakhah 3. in the morning and for musaf; for afternoon prayers150Since there are bystanders 365 days a year, they also hold their special services on days which require a musaf prayer; in contrast to all other Torah readings one reads both after morning and after musaf prayers; Tosephta 3:4. they were assembling and read by heart as one reads the shema`. Friday afternoon they were not assembling151For extended services. because of the honor of Sabbath.
On any day of hallel162The first day of Passover, Pentecost, the eight days of Tabernacles and the eight days of Ḥanukkah. there is no bystanding for morning prayers163Since these are festive days and the prayers of the bystanders are penitential prayers., on a musaf sacrifice there is no ne`ilah164For the same reason as before; most musaf sacrifices were on festive days and ne`ilah is characteristic of fastdays.; on an offering of wood165Offerings of firewood to the Temple as described in Halakhah 6. there is none for the afternoon prayers, the words of Rebbi Aqiba. Ben Azzai said to him, so was Rebbi Joshua stating: on a musaf sacrifice166When except for the Day of Atonement there can be no ne`ilah. there is none for the afternoon prayers; on an offering of wood no ne`ilah167Since the day is a festive day.. Rebbi Aqiba changed to state following Ben Azzai’s words.
A large paragraph is read by two persons, and a small one by an individual149A paragraph of 5 sentences may be split into 2 readings as explained in Halakhah 3. in the morning and for musaf; for afternoon prayers150Since there are bystanders 365 days a year, they also hold their special services on days which require a musaf prayer; in contrast to all other Torah readings one reads both after morning and after musaf prayers; Tosephta 3:4. they were assembling and read by heart as one reads the shema`. Friday afternoon they were not assembling151For extended services. because of the honor of Sabbath.
On any day of hallel162The first day of Passover, Pentecost, the eight days of Tabernacles and the eight days of Ḥanukkah. there is no bystanding for morning prayers163Since these are festive days and the prayers of the bystanders are penitential prayers., on a musaf sacrifice there is no ne`ilah164For the same reason as before; most musaf sacrifices were on festive days and ne`ilah is characteristic of fastdays.; on an offering of wood165Offerings of firewood to the Temple as described in Halakhah 6. there is none for the afternoon prayers, the words of Rebbi Aqiba. Ben Azzai said to him, so was Rebbi Joshua stating: on a musaf sacrifice166When except for the Day of Atonement there can be no ne`ilah. there is none for the afternoon prayers; on an offering of wood no ne`ilah167Since the day is a festive day.. Rebbi Aqiba changed to state following Ben Azzai’s words.
Jerusalem Talmud Taanit
It was stated152Babli 27b.: The people of the watch153Meaning the bystanders who do not work in this week. are fasting every day. On Monday they were fasting for travellers at sea; God commanded, there shall be a spread in midst of the water154Gen. 1:6.. On Tuesday they are fasting for road travellers; God commanded, the waters under the sky shall congregate155Gen. 1:9.. On Wednesday they are fasting for children that diphteria should not develop in their mouths; God commanded, there shall be lights156Gen. 1:14.. “Curses” is written157Reading מְאֹרוֹת as מְאֵרוֹת.. On Thursday they are fasting that pregnant women should not miscarry and that the children of nursing women should not die; God commanded, let the waters teem with living creepers158Gen. 1:20.. They fasted neither on Friday nor on Sunday in order to honor the Sabbath. It was stated: The Great Synhedrion was fasting with them. Can the Synhedrion fast every day? They split themselves into clans. “One does not fast for two reasons simultaneously159Babli 8b., from the following: we rose and asked of our God for this160Ezra 8:23, misquoted. The same misquote is in the Munich ms. of the Babli (Diqduqe Soferim Ta`anit p. 38, Note ס). Therefore the misquote is a Midrash, not a scribal error. Editors of the printed Babli corrected the quote..” Rebbi Tanḥuma said, not because of this but because of the following, to ask for mercy from the God of Heaven for this secret161Dan. 2:18.. For if there were two reasons, such as a drought and locusts, one blows the shofar about them. When Rebbi Ḥaggai went for a fast, he said before them: Our brothers, even though in our hearts are many worries, this is for what we came.
Avot DeRabbi Natan
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel would say: In the future, all the nations and all the kingdoms will gather together in Jerusalem, as it says (Jeremiah 3:17), “And all the nations will assemble there in the name of the Eternal,” and it says (Genesis 1:9), “Let the waters be assembled.” Just as [there the assembly of] all the waters in Creation were in one place, so too, the assembly here is a gathering of all the nations and kingdoms into Jerusalem, as it says, “And all the nations will assemble there.”