Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

English

And the earth was vacancy and desolation, solitary of the sons of men, and void of every animal; and darkness was upon the face of the abyss, and the Spirit of mercies from before the Lord breathed upon the face of the waters.

J. W. Etheridge, 1862 · pd

Hebrew / Aramaic

Sefaria, 'Targum Jonathan on Genesis' · pd

Notes

Same 'spirit of mercies' as Neofiti; the verb menatva ('breathed / blew') keeps the Onkelos line. Etheridge embedded verbatim (PD).

Threads

• → parallel · Targum Neofiti
  Both render ruach Elohim as 'a spirit of mercy/mercies from before the LORD'; the Palestinian targum tradition shared the phrase.