- V. The Third Day 9. קוה _qāvâh_ “turn, bind, gather, expect.” יבשׁה _yabāshâh_ “the dry, the ground.” יבשׁ _yabēsh_, “be dry.” בושׁ _bôsh_, “be abashed.” 11. דשׁא...
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 questio...
Two acts are assigned to the third day, the separation of land and water, and the creation of vegetation. The former was apparently effected by the draining of the waters which covered the land into a...
The Third Day Two Creative Acts. (1) The Separation of Sea and Earth (Genesis 1:9). (2) The Creation of the Vegetable World (Genesis 1:11) 9. _Let the waters … appear_ In this verse the dry land is re...
AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS BE GATHERED TOGETHER— After the elements of _light_ and _air_ were appointed to their proper places, the next in density, the _water, i.e._. the lower water, or that under...
Day Three; Lands and Seas, Plant Life (Genesis 1:9-13) And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and. it was so. And God called t...
PART SIX: THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:2-19 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The verb _bara,_ translated create, writes Skinner (ICC, 15) is u...
_AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS UNDER THE HEAVEN BE GATHERED TOGETHER UNTO ONE PLACE, AND LET THE DRY LAND APPEAR: AND IT WAS SO._ Let the waters under the heaven ... i:e., which extended far and wide...
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_ ABOUT GENESIS Many people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other people probably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the words o...
LET THE WATERS BE GATHERED TOGETHER. — The verb, as Gesenius shows, refers rather to the condensation of water, which, as we have seen, was impossible till the surface of the earth was made cool by th...
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 יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִקָּו֨וּ הַ מַּ֜יִם 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...
SKY, EARTH, SEASONS Genesis 1:6 There were successive stages in creation. The days probably represent long periods. It is so with the new creation in our hearts. See 2 Corinthians 5:17. In nature the...
The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
"GOD CREATED" It should be noted the writer of this account is not concerned with science. However, no proven fact of science contradicts any scripture. The expression "and God" is used 28 times in Ge...
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
9._Let the waters... be gathered together _This also is an illustrious miracle, that the waters by their departure have given a dwelling-place to men. For even philosophers allow that the natural posi...
Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we have the creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centre and head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS UNDER THE HEAVEN BE GATHERED TOGETHER UNTO ONE PLACE,.... Which are before called the waters under the firmament; and which were either on the surface of the earth, or in...
_God said_, &c. From the production, or separation from gross matter, of _light_ and _air_, and the assigning them their proper places and uses in the creation, God proceeds, on the third day, to sepa...
[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.] 1 The creation of Heauen and Earth, 3 of the light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth separated from the waters, 11 and made fruitfull, 14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
THE CREATION OF THE DRY LAND, HERBS, AND TREES...
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. God here finished His creative work on inanimate matter, when His almight...
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE, AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
6-13 The earth was emptiness, but by a word spoken, it became full of God's riches, and his they are still. Though the use of them is allowed to man, they are from God, and to his service and honour...
THE WATERS UNDER THE HEAVEN; both the great abyss, or deep of water which is shut up in the bowels of the earth, Genesis 7:11 Psalms 24:2 Psalms 33:7 Psalm
There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the Holy Ghost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, in the essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
Genesis 1:9 God H430 said H559 (H8799) waters H4325 heavens H8064 together H6960 (H8735) into H413 one...
‘And God said, “Let the waters that are under the heaven be gathered together in one place and let the dry land appear”, and it was so. And God called the dry land ‘eretz' and the waters that were gat...
Genesis 1 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
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 i...
CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth for habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life. CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis 1:26 (See...
_The gathering together of the waters called He seas_ THE SEA AND THE DRY LAND I. THE SEA. “Let the waters. .. unto one place.” 1. The method of their location. Perhaps by volcanic agency. 2. The d...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:11. Kind] Prop. “form” or “shape,” hence “species,” “kind.” Comp. 1 Corinthians 15:38, where note the aorist tense = “as it (originally) pleased him:”—a hint on “the perpet...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:9 _Day three_._ _The distribution of land and water and the production of vegetation on this day engaged the formative energy of the word of Elohim. AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS...
Now on the third day, God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
Job 26:7 Job 26:10 Job 38:8 Psalms 24:1 Psalms 24:2...
IN THE BEGINNING GOD Genesis 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In these days of humanizing God, we need to give more time to the study of God's eternity. The Bible opens with the expression, "In the beginning...
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Genesis 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have a very interesting study to set before you today. Most of us realize how vital a part the Holy Spirit plays in our own exp...
The third day's work is related in these verses; the forming the sea and the dry land, and making the earth fruitful. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been employed about the upper part of the vi...