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Genesis 1:24-25
The Creation of the Land Animals
The Creation of the Land Animals
Verse Genesis 1:24. _LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE, C._] נפש חיה _nephesh chaiyah_ a general term to express all creatures endued with animal life, in any of its infinitely varied gra...
- VIII. The Sixth Day 24. בהמה _b__e__hēmâh_, “cattle; dumb, tame beasts.” רמשׂ _remeś_, “creeping (small or low) animals.” חוּה _chayâh_, “living thing; animal.” חוּת־חארץ
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth. The questio...
The sixth day is occupied with the creation of the land animals and of man. It is natural that a much fuller space than usual should be accorded to the latter. And the solemnity of the act is marked b...
CREATURE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13....
Sixth Day: (_a_) Creation of the Land Animals (Genesis 1:24); (_b_) Creation of Man (Genesis 1:26); (_c_) The End of the Creation (Genesis 1:31),...
_Let the earth_, &c. The work of the sixth, like that of the third, day is twofold. Furthermore, the creation of the land animals on the sixth day seems to correspond to the creation of the earth on t...
LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH, &C.— From the fish and the fowl the great Creator proceeds to the superior order of terrestrial animals; which are classed under the three ranks of: 1st, cattle, all tame an...
Day Six: Land Animals, Man, Naming of the Animal Tribes, Woman (Genesis 1:24-31) And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of t...
PART SEVEN: THE LAST THREE DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:20-31 The heart of the Genesis Cosmogony is that all things have been brought into existence by the Supreme Creative Will, a...
_AND GOD SAID, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE AFTER HIS KIND, CATTLE, AND CREEPING THING, AND BEAST OF THE EARTH AFTER HIS KIND: AND IT WAS SO._ Let the earth bring forth the living cr...
THE CREATION 'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everything that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ ABOUT GENESIS Many people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other people probably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the words o...
LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH. — Neither this, nor the corresponding phrase in Genesis 1:20, necessarily imply spontaneous generation, though such is its literal meaning. It need mean no more than that la...
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM. Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3) the Deity is simply called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of _Eloah,...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים תֹּוצֵ֨א הָ אָ֜רֶץ נֶ֤פ
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN CREATION'S CROWN Genesis 1:20 Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal Power and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20. And all things and beings were mad...
The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
"GOD CREATED" It should be noted the writer of this account is not concerned with science. However, no proven fact of science contradicts any scripture. The expression "and God" is used 28 times in Ge...
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
24._Let the earth bring forth _He descends to the sixth day, on which the animals were created, and then man. ‘Let the earth,’ he says, ‘bring forth living creatures.’ But whence has a dead element li...
Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we have the creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centre and head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
AND GOD SAID, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE AFTER HIS KIND,.... All sorts of living creatures that live and move upon the earth; not that the earth was endued with a power to produce t...
_Let the earth bring forth_ He that of stones can raise children to Abraham, and who called forth the universe from nothing, could easily produce animals from the dull and sluggish earth, although ina...
[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.] 1 The creation of Heauen and Earth, 3 of the light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth separated from the waters, 11 and made fruitfull, 14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE, AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
20-25 God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and as curious, seem to have been part of this day's...
1. Those living creatures hereafter mentioned, whose original is from the earth, and whose habitation is in it. 2. Those tame beasts which are most familiar with and useful to men for food, clothing,...
There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the Holy Ghost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, in the essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
Genesis 1:24 God H430 said H559 (H8799) earth H776 forth H3318 (H8686) living H2416 creature H5315 kind...
‘And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures, according to their kinds, cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds”, and it was so. And God made the beas...
LIVING CREATURE "Creature," Hebrew, Nephesh, translated Soul in (Genesis 2:7) and usually. In itself nephesh, or soul, implies self-conscious life, as distinguished from plants, which have unconsciou...
Genesis 1 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
Genesis 1:1. _In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth._ When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but i...
CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth for habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life. CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis 1:26 (See...
_God made the beast of the earth_ THE ANIMAL CREATION I. THAT THE ANIMAL WORLD WAS CREATED BY GOD. 1. We should regard the animal world with due appreciation. Man has too low an estimate of the ani...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:24 LIVESTOCK AND CREEPING THINGS AND BEASTS OF THE EARTH. These terms group the land-dwelling animals into three broad categories, probably reflecting the way nomadic shepher...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 1:24_ THE ANIMAL WORLD I. That the Animal World was created by God. All the creeping things of the earth are created by God. The cattle upon a thousand hil...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:26. Man] Heb. _’âdhâm_ (Adam). The reader of the Heb. can scarcely resist the impression that a close connection was meant to be seen between _’âdhâm_ “man,” and, _adhâmâh_...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:21 _Day_ _six_._ _Like day three, this is distinguished by a double creative act, the production of the higher or land animals and the creation of man, of the latter of which it...
Now on the third day, God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
Let. Genesis 6:20 Genesis 7:14 Genesis 8:19 Job 38:39 Job 38:40...
CREATION SCENES Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command to t
We have here the first part of the sixth day's work. The sea was the day before replenished with fish, and the air with fowl; and this day are made the beasts of the earth, cattle, and the creeping th...