Genesis 1:30

_AND TO EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH, AND TO EVERY FOWL OF THE AIR, AND TO EVERY THING THAT CREEPETH UPON THE EARTH, WHEREIN THERE IS LIFE, I HAVE GIVEN EVERY GREEN HERB FOR MEAT: AND IT WAS SO._ I have given you every herb ... and every tree ... for meat. They were to be sustained on the products of the ground alone, because not the slightest hint is given of a grant of animal food: on the contrary, it seems to be expressly excluded by the terms of this passage; and vegetables and fruit-bearing trees are specified, to distinguish "for meat" to man from "every green herb" х_ KAAL_ (H3605) _ YEREQ_ (H3418) _ `EESEB_ (H6212)] - all the greenness of vegetation - i:e., the various kinds of herbage. The "beasts of the earth" is a Scripture name for wild beasts, which we know had been created ...

29,30 Herbs and fruits must be man's food, including corn, and all the products of the earth. Let God's people cast their care upon him, and not be troubled about what they shall eat, and what they shall drink. He that feeds his birds will not starve his babes....

- 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 _chayatô_-_chā'ārets_, “wild beast.” 26. אדם _'ādām_, “man, mankind;” “be red.” A collective noun, having no plural number, and therefore denoting either an individual of the kind, or the kind or race itself. It is connected in etymology with אדמה _'ădāmâh_, “the red soil,” from which the human body

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 is perhaps permissible to see a mute prediction in the vegetation which closed the first half of the creative week. AND GOD SAID, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE AFTER HIS KIND. In these words the land animals are generically characterized as _nephesh chayyah_,_ _or animated beings; in the terms which follow they are subdivided into three well-defined species or classes. CATTLE. _Behemah_;_ _literally, the dumb animal, _i.e._ the larger grass-eating quadrupeds. AND CREEPING THING. _Remes_;_ _the moving animal, _i.e._ the

AND TO EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH,.... Wild or tame, the cattle on a thousand hills; God took care and provided for these, being all his creatures, and designed to answer some end or other by their creation: AND TO EVERY FOWL OF THE AIR; that flies in it; AND TO EVERY CREEPING THING UPON THE EARTH; even the meanest and lowest insect: WHEREIN THERE IS LIFE; or "a living soul"; that has an animal life, which is to be supported by food: [I HAVE GIVEN] EVERY GREEN HERB FOR MEAT; the leaves for some, and seed for others; and here is no mention made of flesh; and perhaps those creatures which are now carnivorous were not so at their first creation: AND IT WAS SO; every creature, both man and beast, had food suitable to their nature and appetite, and a sufficiency of it. (From Romans 5:12, it

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 it was not self-existent; it was created by God, it sprang from the will and the word of the all-wise Creator. Genesis 1:2. _And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep._ When God began to arrange this world in order, it was shrouded in darkness, and it had been reduced to what we call, for want of a better name, «chaos.» This is just the condition of every soul of man when God begins to deal with him in his grace; it is formless, and empty of all good things. «There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is

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 question is how was it given? An answer to this question claims that the Jews obtained the account from the records of other nations concerning the origin of the universe and that they altered it according to their own religious ideas. This is an impossibility. The ancient heathen nations considered God and the universe one and had absolutely no knowledge of the existence of God independent of the universe, nor did they know anything of a creation of the world. Here is something wholly different from all the theories, mythologies and other inventions of the human race. How then was it given? By revelation of God is the only answer. No human being knew anything about the origin of the heavens and t...

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 by the formula of deliberation, Let us make man. The plural has been variously explained. Setting aside as beyond the range of the OT the view that the Father addresses the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the view that God speaks of Himself in the plural since He is the fulness of energies and powers, as too artificial, the most obvious explanation is that God is addressing the heavenly assembly (_cf._ 1 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 6:8). Yet there is difficulty in this view, for P ignores angels altogether; nor would he regard them as sharing in the work of creation: nor, probably, would he think of man as made in their image

TO EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH. To animals there is assigned for food "every green herb." While there are animals that live upon grain or fruits, or even upon other animals, the great source of food of the brute creation is the herbage of the earth. "All flesh is grass," and is either sustained by the grasses of the earth, or by the flesh of herb-eating animals....

LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ Compare Genesis 1:20; Genesis 2:7 and App-18. I HAVE GIVEN. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6. a) correctly supplied from Genesis 1:29....