“And the _wind of God_ blew upon the face of the water.” VV. 6. 7. 8. I. the Arabic translation has جلد, _jeld_, “a skin, a volume;” II. پرده, _perdah_, “veil, curtain, fence;” both Arabic and Persian, only figuratively “heaven;” III. German, “veste;” IV. English, and VI. French, “firmament;” V. English, “expanse;” VII. French, “étendue” (atmosphere); the Dabistan رفيعه, “an elevation.” V. 26. V. Mr. Bellamy objects to the translation of this verse by the words: “Let us make man in our image” (in which all the other versions agree), and he substitutes for it: “We will make man;” in the Dabistan we find, in support of Mr. Bellamy, بكنم آدم, “I will make man.” CHAP. II. V. 6. All the translations have: “a vapor _watered_ the face of the earth;” the Dabistan says: “covered, decked.” V. 7. All the copies agree in: “he breathed _into his nostrils_ the breath of life;” the Dabistan translates: “into his body.” V. 8. Every where we read: “God planted a garden _eastward in Eden_;” in the Dabistan: “from old times in Eden;” Mr. Cahen remarks that Onkelos (a Hebrew commentator before our era) interprets in the same manner: “in former times.” V. 11. We read generally: “Pison: _that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold_;” Messrs. Glaire and Frank add: “l’or _de ce nom_;” in the Dabistan: زمين حوملارا کہ آنجاست بلور و سذك يشب “The land Havemla, where there is the beryl (also crystal) and the stone jasper (especially a whitish kind found on mount Imaus).” V. 12. is not in the Dabistan. V. 13. In the Dabistan are omitted, after the name of Gihon, the words: “the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.” V. 14. The Dabistan reads, after the name of the river Hîdîkel, رونده پيش طايفه يشراو, “running towards the _people of Ashur_;” other versions have “towards the east of Assyria.” V. 23. VII. Messrs. Glaire and Frank translate: “qu’elle soit nommée _Ischâ_ (femme), parce qu’elle a été tirée de _Ish_” (homme). This analogous derivation for man and woman does not exist in other languages; we find however, in the old Latin, _vir_ and _vira_, which words are used in the Latin translation of the Samaritan text; in the Arabic version we find امرعه for “virago,” and امريه for “virilitas;” the translator, in the Dabistan, endeavored to reproduce the same derivation, by _ânsán_ and _ânsn_: از ابراي همين كَفته ميشود انسان كه كرفته شده است ار اسن V. 24. The version in the Dabistan deviates from the other translations by the word ميخسپند بزنش “he will _sleep_ with his wife,” instead of “cleave unto, or adhere to, his wife.” CHAP. III. Offers no variation to be pointed out. CHAP. IV.