Verse Genesis 2:4. _IN THE DAY THAT THE LORD GOD MADE, C_.] The word יהוה _Yehovah_ is for the first time mentioned here. What it signifies see on Exodus 34:5-2. Wherever this word occurs in the sacr...
- 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...
Thus in six days God completed His work of creation, and as He reviewed it He uttered the same verdict on the whole, only in a heightened form (very good and not merely good) that He had uttered on th...
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...
GENERATIONS. Family history. For the 14 in Bible, see the structure of the Book as. whole (p. 1). These are the Divine divisions, in which there is no trace of the Elohistic and Jehovistic theories. I...
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...
_These are the generations … created_ These words, as they stand here, seem to form a summary of the _preceding_account of the Creation. Elsewhere, however, the phrase "These are the generations, &c....
GENERATIONS— תולדות _Toldoth,_ sometimes signifies the origin of the thing treated of, and sometimes the posterity of those who are mentioned. Here it means the origin, or successive production, of th...
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
_THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH WHEN THEY WERE CREATED, IN THE DAY THAT THE LORD_ God made the earth and the heavens, These are the generations of the heavens and of the e...
2:4 histories (g-4) Lit. 'generations.' the word implies 'origin' and occurs in chs. 5.1; 6.9; 10.1,32; 11.10,27; 25.12,13,19; 36.1,9; 37.2. Elohim (h-20) See ch. 1.1....
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...
GOOD] i.e. perfect for the purpose for which God designed it. THE LORD GOD] Where Lord is thus printed in capitals in the English Bible it stands for the Heb. JHVH, the sacred divine name which was pr...
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...
Chapter 1 told us the story about how God made everything. Chapter 2 tells us more details about how God made people. And it tells us about the garden that God made for his people....
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...
WHEN THEY WERE CREATED. — Heb., _in,_ or upon, _their creation._ IN THE DAY. — Viewed in its several stages, and with reference to the weekly rest, there were six days of creation, which are here des...
אֵ֣לֶּה תֹולְדֹ֧ות הַ שָּׁמַ֛יִם וְ הָ אָ֖רֶץ
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...
Day. Not that all things were made in one day: but God formed in succession; first, heaven and earth, then the ornaments of both. Every plant, &c. which on the first day did not spring up, (as water c...
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, The LORD God made the earth etc. As this is the first ve...
4._These are the generations _(108) The design of Moses was deeply to impress upon our minds the _origin _of the heaven and the earth, which he designates by the word _generation_. For there have alwa...
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...
THESE [ARE] THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, WHEN THEY WERE CREATED,.... That is, the above account, delivered in the preceding chapter, is a history of the production of the heavens and...
_These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,_ Ver. 4. _Jehovah God._] Moses first calls God JEHOVA...
_The generations of the heavens_ That is, a true and full account of their origin or beginning, and of the order in which the sundry parts and creatures therein were formed....
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...
The creation of Adam...
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. The author, having given a short account of the creation,...
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...
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...
i.e. These things mentioned in GE 1 are a true and full relation of their generations, i.e. of their original or beginnings. IN THE DAY; not strictly so called, but largely taken for the time, as it i...
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 2:4 This H428 history H8435 heavens H8064 earth H776 created H1254 (H8736) day H3117 LORD H3068 God...
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
‘These are the generations of (or this is the history of) the heavens and the earth when they were created.' This apparent colophon suggests that the account was once recorded separately on a clay or...
LORD LORD (Hebrew JEHOVAH) (1) The primary meaning of the name LORD (Jehovah) is the "self-existent One." Literally (as in (Exodus 3:14), "He that is who He is, therefore the eternal I AM:" But Ha...
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...
_These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth_ THE PRIMEVAL CONDITION OF THE EARTH, AND OF MAN AS A SENTIENT, SPIRITUAL, AND SOCIAL BEING I. The economy of the kingdom of Inanimate natur...
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...
the generations. Genesis 1:4 Genesis 5:1 Genesis 10:1 Genesis 11:10 Genesis 25:12
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...
In these verses, 1. Here is a name given to the Creator, which we have not yet met with, Jehovah. The LORD in capital letters, is constantly used in our English translation, for Jehovah. This is that...
Why does this chapter use the term “Lord God” rather than “God” as in chapter one? PROBLEM: Many critics insist that Genesis 2 must have been written by someone different from the one who wrote Genesi...