This Possuk is hard to understand. RaShI explains that it means the first of the things to be created were… The Zohar has trouble with this and explains that this Possuk is about the ten Sfiros. Chassidus adds that 1) the ten S’firos are created Yesh MeAyin, 2) They serve the lower worlds, as they are Hashem’s tools in creation. (This is different than how Kabbalah would see this). The second Possuk is about Birurim of tohu revealing SaG in BaN. Two unanswered questions: 1) Why agree with the Zohar but change the details of how the ten S’firos are in the first Possuk. 2) How one becomes many is not resolved by speaking of ten S’firos it simply transfers the question to the S’firos.
