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 that he had done. He rested on the seventh day, after all the work that he had done. V3 So God made... [ Continue Reading ]
When God had created everything, he rested. That means that he did not create anything else. It does not mean that he did no more work. Genesis tells us that God did many more things.... [ Continue Reading ]
Many people nowadays keep one day in each week special. Some keep the first day special, because Jesus Christ rose from death on the first day. Other people keep the seventh day in each week as a special day. THE GARDEN IN EDEN V4 This is the story of the sky and the earth, which God had created.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The plants that man needed for his food were not growing. There were two reasons for this. • There was not enough water for them. But God could send that. • There was nobody to look after them. And man could do that. So God sent water (in verse 6) and he put man in the garden (in verses 7-8). God... [ Continue Reading ]
‘God made a man out of dust.’ So he made man’s body out of things that he had already made. ‘He blew the breath of life into him.’ This means that he made man alive. If an animal has breath, it is alive. But the *Hebrew word that means ‘breath’ also means ‘spirit’. So this verse also means that God... [ Continue Reading ]
We do not know much about these two special trees. (See Genesis 3:22 and the comment.)... [ Continue Reading ]
People used ‘spice’ to give more flavour to food. ‘Onyx’ is a special stone. We do not know where rivers Pishon and Gihon were. Rivers called Tigris and Euphrates flow through the country that today is Iraq.... [ Continue Reading ]
We can be sure that God made this tree for a good purpose. Perhaps he intended that men and women should eat its fruit later, at the right time. But it certainly made Adam and Eve distinguish between good things and evil things. (See the comment to Genesis 3:22.) ‘If you eat that fruit, you will ce... [ Continue Reading ]
A ‘helper’ means a person who will work together with another person. It does not mean a servant or a slave. We know that because the word ‘helper’ can mean God. Exodus 18:4 says, ‘My father’s God was my helper.’ And the *Hebrew word for ‘helper’ is the same word.... [ Continue Reading ]
God had told man to rule over all the animals. (See Genesis 1:28.) So God did not give names to the animals. God let man do that.... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Adam’ is a *Hebrew word that means ‘a man’. It is also the name of the first man. None of the animals was a suitable helper because they are not like man. God made man as an image of himself. Man is similar to God. Man has a spirit but animals do not have spirits. (See Genesis 1:26 and the comment... [ Continue Reading ]
The bone was a rib. A rib is a thin bone in the upper part of the body. V23 Then Adam said, ‘This at last is my bone and it is part of my body. I shall call her “woman” because she came out of man.’ V24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and he and his wife join. Then the two peo... [ Continue Reading ]
‘This is my bone’ means, ‘This was my bone until God changed it. And ‘it is part of my body’ means, ‘This was part of my body until God changed it.’ The *Hebrew word for ‘woman’ sounds like the word for ‘man’.... [ Continue Reading ]
‘The two people become one body.’ From the beginning, God intended that a man should have only one wife. But after this time many men had several wives. And from the beginning, God intended that a man and his wife should stay together. But after this time some people divorced each other. (See Deuter... [ Continue Reading ]