What does Genesis 2:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God createda and made."
Verse Genesis 2:3. _AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY_] The original word ברך _barach_, which is generally rendered _to bless_, has a very extensive meaning. It is frequently used in Scripture in the s...
- The Seventh Day 1. צבא _tsābā'_ “a host in marching order,” a company of persons or things in the order of their nature and the progressive discharge of their functions. Hence, it is applied to t...
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 questi...
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...
AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY AND SANCTIFIED IT. He made the day blessed, or rich in blessings to man, distinguished it above other days by his special regard, hallowed it by setting it apart from...
CREATED. See note on Genesis 1:1. The Introduction (Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:3) is the summary: Genesis 2:4 gives the details of Genesis 1: Genesis 2:9 coming historically between verses: Genesis 1:12 a...
NOTE ON THE SABBATH In connexion with the Institution of the Sabbath recorded in Genesis 2:1-3 the following points deserve to be noticed. 1. The writer gives the reason for the sanctity among the H...
DISCOURSE: 2 APPOINTMENT OF THE SABBATH Genesis 2:2. _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 made. And God blessed t...
GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT— _Blessed_, i.e.. says Mr. Locke, appointed it to be kept as a day of holy rejoicing; _and sanctified it, i.e._. separated, or set it apart, for his own...
Day Seven: Rest Genesis 2:1-3 _And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day...
_AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT: BECAUSE THAT IN IT HE HAD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD CREATED AND MADE._ Blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. On the creation of the...
2:3 it. (f-26) Lit. 'created to make.'...
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_ 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 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 יְבָ֤רֶךְ אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־יֹ֣ום הַ שְּׁבִיעִ֔י וַ יְקַדֵּ֖שׁ אֹתֹ֑ו כִּ֣י בֹ֤ו שָׁבַת֙ מִ...
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...
A DAY OF REST A Bible school teacher once told the story of creation. One of her four year old students then said, "On the seventh day God went to jail." When asked to explain, he said, "You said tha...
And God blessed the seventh day, and (c) sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (c) Appointed it to be kept holy, that man might in it consider...
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Deuteronomy 5:14. How beautiful is it to behold the first institutio...
_THE SACRED DAY_ ‘And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which god created and made.’ Genesis 2:3 I. WHETHER THE PATRIARCHS WERE OR W...
3._And God blessed the seventh day _It appears that God is here said to bless according to the manner of men, because they bless him whom they highly extol. Nevertheless, even in this sense, it would...
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...
AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT,.... A day in which he took delight and pleasure, having finished all his works, and resting from them, and looking over them as very good; and so he...
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Ver. 3. _God blessed the seventh day,_] i.e., made it an effectual m...
Gen. 2:3. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, etc." It is rendered very probable by Bedford in his Scripture Chronology,"[1730 folio. - G.] that this first Sabbath being the first day...
_God blessed the seventh day_ He conferred on it peculiar honour, and annexed to it special privileges above those granted to any other day; _and sanctified it_ That is, separated it from common use,...
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 Sabbath of Creation...
See Genesis 1:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes for Genesis 2:1-3 12.Genesis 2:1. _The Divine Sabbath_. Genesis 2:1. THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED. A solemn retrospect introduci...
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...
CREATED AND MADE: _ Heb._ created to make...
1-3 After six days, God ceased from all works of creation. In miracles, he has overruled nature, but never changed its settled course, or added to it. God did not rest as one weary, but as one well pl...
GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, by conferring special honours and privileges upon it above all other days, that it should be a day of solemn rest and rejoicing and celebration of God and his works, and a...
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 2:3 God H430 blessed H1288 (H8762) seventh H7637 day H3117 sanctified H6942 (H8762) because H3588 rested H7673 (H8804) work H4399 God H430 created H1254 (H8804) made H6213 (H8800) blessed - Ex...
‘And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested (ceased work) on the seventh day from all the work which he had made. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, bec...
SANCTIFIED In the Old Testament The same Hebrew word (qodesh) is translated sanctify, consecrate, dedicate, and holy. It means, set apart for the service of God. See refs. Following "Sanctify," (_ S...
Genesis 2:3 I. Whether the patriarchs were or were not commanded to keep the Sabbath is a thing which we can never know; it is no safe foundation for our thinking ourselves bound to keep it, that the...
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 s...
_He rested on the seventh day_ THE DIVINE SABBATH: I. THE DIVINE COMPLETION OF HIS CREATIVE WORK. No further creations. II. THE DIVINE CONTEMPLATION OF HIS CREATIVE WORK. Everything complete. Every...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:1 God has now completed the process of putting his creation in order (see note on 1:1–2:3). That God RESTED does not imply he was weary from labor. Rather, God’s resting hint...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:2. Rested] “Kept sabbath,” _i.e._ “observed a sacred, festive quiet.” A good worker does his work well, and leaves off when he has done. The very crown of his work is the p...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 2:1 THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED. Literally, and finished were the heavens and the earth, the emphatic position being occupied by the verb. With the creation of man...
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...
blessed. Exodus 16:22 Exodus 20:8 Exodus 23:12 Exodus 31:13 Exodus 34:21 Exodus 35:2 Exodus 35:3 Leviticus 23:3 Leviticus 25:2 Leviticus 25:3
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 th...