_THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM. IN THE DAY THAT GOD CREATED MAN, IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD MADE HE HIM;_ This is the book of the generations of Adam. This is the usual formula by which a new portion of the Scripture narrative is introduced. The original word, _ CEEPER_ (H5612), rendered... [ Continue Reading ]
_MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM; AND BLESSED THEM, AND CALLED THEIR NAME ADAM, IN THE DAY WHEN THEY WERE CREATED._ Male and female created he them. The Hebrew word _ 'AADAAM_ (H120), like the Latin homo and the English word "person", is a generic term, including woman as well as man (Genesis 5:2;... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ADAM LIVED AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, AND BEGAT A SON IN HIS OWN LIKENESS, AFTER HIS IMAGE; AND CALLED HIS NAME SETH:_ Adam lived an hundred and thirty years. The period of time intended by Moses was a year of twelve lunar months, as is evident from the language that he employs (Genesis 8:5)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE DAYS OF ADAM AFTER HE HAD BEGOTTEN SETH WERE EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS: AND HE BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ And he begat sons and daughters. Neither their names nor their occupations, nor anything respecting them, being mentioned, it is probable that there was nothing worthy of note in the lives o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE DAYS THAT ADAM LIVED WERE NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS: AND HE DIED._ All the days that Adam lived. What vicissitudes must the personal history of Adam have comprised! What a momentous change from a state of unalloyed happiness to a condition of labour and varied suffering! and how fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SETH LIVED AN HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS, AND BEGAT ENOS:_ And Seth lived an hundred and five years. In enumerating these patriarchs in the pious family of Seth, the sacred historian, who wrote under the direction of the Spirit, mentions with minute particularity the year in the life of each succe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SETH LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT ENOS EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVEN YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ENOS LIVED NINETY YEARS, AND BEGAT CAINAN:_ Cainan - or Kenan (1 Chronicles 1:2; cf. Luke 3:37), possessor, or, according to Gesenius, a smith.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ENOS LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT CAINAN EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND CAINAN LIVED SEVENTY YEARS, AND BEGAT MAHALALEEL:_ Mahalaleel - praise of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND CAINAN LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT MAHALALEEL EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MAHALALEEL LIVED SIXTY AND FIVE YEARS, AND BEGAT JARED:_ Jared - descent.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MAHALALEEL LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT JARED EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JARED LIVED AN HUNDRED SIXTY AND TWO YEARS, AND HE BEGAT ENOCH:_ Enoch - or Henoch (1 Chronicles 1:3), dedicated, or, according to Gesenius, initiated. These significations, because both of them are applicable, intimate, what from the subsequent conduct of Enoch there is reason to conclude, th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JARED LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT ENOCH EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD AFTER HE BEGAT METHUSELAH THREE HUNDRED YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ And Enoch walked with God - Hebrew, _ HAA-'ELOHIYM_ (H430), the God, a personal deity; because the Divine Being still condescended to manifest Himself visibly to His people. This phraseology, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE DAYS OF ENOCH WERE THREE HUNDRED SIXTY AND FIVE YEARS:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD: AND HE WAS NOT; FOR GOD TOOK HIM._ And he was not; for God took him. 'To be not,' is a soft archaic expression, several times used in this book in speaking of a person who is no longer visible in his usual place, or met with in the world, without reference to the mode of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND METHUSELAH LIVED AN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND SEVEN YEARS, AND BEGAT LAMECH:_ Methuselah - or Methusala (Luke 3:37), the man of the dart (Gesenius) - literally, man of sending, particularly with reference to water, and hence, the name Siloam (sent, John 9:7), given to a pool at Jerusalem. Hales inter... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND METHUSELAH LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT LAMECH SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND TWO YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LAMECH LIVED AN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND TWO YEARS, AND BEGAT A SON:_ Lamech - Hebrew, Lemech, strong, powerful. This was a different person from the Lamech mentioned in Genesis 4:1-26, and lived probably a considerable time after him, although this latter circumstance cannot be fully ascertained fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CALLED HIS NAME NOAH, SAYING, THIS SAME SHALL COMFORT US CONCERNING OUR WORK AND TOIL OF OUR HANDS, BECAUSE OF THE GROUND WHICH THE LORD HATH CURSED._ Noah - rest [from _ NUWACH_ (H5118), to rest]. In the reason assigned for the bestowment of the name, therefore, it might have been expected... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LAMECH LIVED AFTER HE BEGAT NOAH FIVE HUNDRED NINETY AND FIVE YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOAH WAS FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OLD: AND NOAH BEGAT SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH._ Noah was five hundred years old. That he and the other patriarchs were advanced in life ere the children whose names are mentioned were born to them, is a difficulty accounted for, probably, from the circumstance that Mos... [ Continue Reading ]