But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. This is the manner in which God provided moisture for the vegetation of the earth at that time, not by means of rain, but by a heavy fog, which arose from the earth and soaked the entire surface of the soil. Having described the earth as the home of man and as the place of his later labors, the author relates the creation of man itself.
Verse Genesis 2:6. _THERE WENT UP A MIST_] This passage appears to have greatly embarrassed many commentators. The plain meaning seems to be this, that the aqueous vapours, ascending from the earth,...
- Part II. The development - Section II - The Man - X. The Field 4. תולדות _tôl__e__dôt_ “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the child from the parent, the...
II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH Man in Innocency before the Fall Genesis 2:4-45 _ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_ 2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7) 3. The garden of Eden...
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
BUT. and. MIST. no mist... to water. The last of two or three negatives not necessary. Must be supplied by Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6. a), as in Deuteronomy 33:6; 1 Samuel 2:3.Psalms 9:18;...
_there went up_ or "there used to go up," i.e. periodically. The frequentative idea of the verb is given in the LXX ἀνέβαινεν, Lat. _ascendebat_. _a mist_ Heb. _"êd_, a word found elsewhere in the O.T...
The Creation of Man 4. _in the day that_ There is no allusion here to the Days of Creation. It is simply the vivid Hebrew idiom for "at the time when." _the Lord God_ The Hebrew words "Jahveh Elohim...
PART EIGHT: THE BEGINNING OF HOMO SAPIENS Genesis 2:4-7 1. _Diagrammatic Review_ of Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3 Day Day 1. Energy, Matter-in Motion, Light CREATION 4. Chronol
_BUT THERE WENT UP A MIST FROM THE EARTH, AND WATERED THE WHOLE FACE OF THE GROUND._ There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground - Hebrew х_ 'EED_ (H108)], 'vapour,...
PARADISE AND THE FALL In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
MIST] The kindred word in the Assyrian language denotes the annual inundation of the Euphrates; see on Genesis 2:8 and on Genesis 3:7. THE FIRMAMENT] the sky, heavens. The word means something 'solid'...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 2 GOD RESTS V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE. The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
A MIST. — This mist, as we learn from Job 36:27, where the same word is translated _vapour,_ is the measure and material of the rain, and thus there was already preparation for the Divine method of wa...
וְ אֵ֖ד יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה מִן ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ וְ
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 IN EDEN, INNOCENCE Genesis 2:1 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion,...
This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" su...
MAN IS DIFFERENT Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
BUT THERE WENT UP A MIST FROM THE EARTH,.... After the waters had been drained off from it, and it was warmed by the body of light and heat created on the first day, which caused a vapour, which went...
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. Ver. 6. _But there went up a mist._] The matter of rain: and hereby God tempered the mortar whereof he would make ma...
_There went up_ At certain times, it seems, as God appointed; _a mist_ or vapour _from the earth_ Issuing from the abyss, or great deep of water in its bowels; (see Genesis 7:14;) _and watered the who...
1 The first Sabbath. 4 The maner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden, 10 and the riuer thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the creatures. 21 T...
SECOND SECTION _Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._ GENESIS 2:4-25. A. The Earth waiting for Man. 4These are the generations [genealogies]...
THE SEVENTH DAY The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1. "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
BUT THERE WENT UP A MIST FROM: Or, a mist which went up from...
4-7 Here is a name given to the Creator, "Jehovah." Where the word "LORD" is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original it is "Jehovah." Jehovah is that name of God, which deno...
THERE WENT UP, from time to time, by God's appointment, a _vapour, _ or _cloud, _ which going up into the air, was turned into rain, and fell down again to the earth from whence it arose; whereby the...
The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely, "the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special attention. There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
Genesis 2:6 mist H108 up H5927 (H8799) from H4480 earth H776 watered H8248 (H8689) face H6440 ground...
THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4). ‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant (siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of the field had yet sp...
MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II. Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27 explained. The Edenic covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real man i...
Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought, but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6. Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, the si...
MIST There went up a mist from the earth. Genesis 2:6. If you searched the world to find people who really and truly like mist I expect you would discover very few. You would not find many even in S...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis 1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:4. Generations] Heb. “births” = “birth-facts,” “birth-stages” = “genesis:” Sept., “This is the book of the genesis,” &c. LORD GOD] Heb. Jehovah Elohim. The correct pronuncia...
§ 2. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (Genesis 2:4-1). EXPOSITION THE subject handled in the present section is the primeval history of man in his paradisiacal state of innocence, his...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
there went up a mist. or, a mist which went up. Genesis 2:6...
THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...