So, there are a lot of tricky translation issues in B'reisheet (the first being that we're calling it Genesis, but no comparable word actually appears in the te

So, there are a lot of tricky translation issues in B'reisheet (the first being that we're calling it Genesis, but no comparable word actually appears in the text). This is not too surprising since a lot of routine concepts today didn't really exist when it was written. However, there are several things that seem not only inconsistent with modern scientific consensus but inconsistent within the book itself. Most obvious is that in chapter 1, animals are said to exist before people ("fifth day", "sixth day"). In chapter 2, however, this happens in the reverse order ("It is not good that man should be alone... formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air"). The latter disagrees with not only the former, but also with basically all evidence we have.