2.
In the first, earth is a chaos covered with water. The waters must be assuaged before vegetation can appear.
In the second, earth is at first a dry plain. Vegetation cannot exist because there is no moisture. “For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth” (ii, 5).
3.
In the first, plants are created from the earth—are a product of the earth. “And the earth brought forth grass and herb” (i, 12).
In the second, they are created independent of the earth—are created by God and then transferred to earth. “The Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew” (ii, 4, 5).
4.
In the first, fowls, fish, and aquatic animals form one act of creation—land animals and reptiles another; the former being created on the fifth day, the latter on the sixth (i, 21–25).