It's "Begettings." Brave the Scandal.

"These are the begettings of the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 2:4, see also the "begettings" in 6:9, 10:1, 11:10, 25:12 & 19, 36:1, 37:2 and of course in the gospels!). It's hard to underestimate what we gain when we translate "toledoth" as "begettings." It's also hard to underestimate the damage done from NOT being brave and translating it correctly. Clearly, this mistranslation was done in order to conform God to our ideas of a god but the Lord God, as ever, is extremely non-risk averse. How will preachers in the pew and pulpit ever unpack the truth without the Hebrew and the Greek though? How are we supposed to make the connection between the creation of Genesis and the palingenesis that starts with the birth of Jesus? There's a reason that Matthew starts with "all those names." What becomes confusing when we mistranslate the "genesis" verbs in Matthew 1 is that all these names are the "begetting of Jesus," the begetting of the new heavens and the new earth i.e., it's renewal and restoration. One complication that gave some sort of excuse to the scholars is that it was not known that both the "gen" words, whether with one "n" or two has the sense of birth or begetting in the Greek of the Septuagint.