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- 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
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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...
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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 b...
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SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE.
In the first two Chapter s we meet with four different verbs which
express the creative work of God, viz: (1) To create; (2) to make; (3)
to form; (4) to build. Th...
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GOD. The Hebrew accent _(Pasek)_ places the emphasis on God, the
Carrier-out of His _purpose._
CREATED: i.e., when He did create. The description of the act
postponed till Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:21. S...
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The reiteration of the principal words in the clauses of this verse
has something of the rhythm of poetry. Repetition and love of detail
are characteristics of the Priestly Code. "Created," cf. Genesi...
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_Let us make_, &c. The creation of man, although taking place on the
same day with that of the land animals, is a completely separate
creative act. It constitutes the climax and the crown of Creation....
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Sixth Day:
(_a_) Creation of the Land Animals (Genesis 1:24);
(_b_) Creation of Man (Genesis 1:26);
(_c_) The End of the Creation (Genesis 1:31),...
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MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM— Man is but half himself without his
partner woman. From this original pair descend the numerous
generations of men that have overspread the earth. How foolish and
vain...
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Day Six: Land Animals, Man, Naming of the Animal Tribes, Woman
(Genesis 1:24-31)
And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their
kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of t...
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PART SEVEN: THE LAST THREE DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS
Genesis 1:20-31
The heart of the Genesis Cosmogony is that all things have been
brought into existence by the Supreme Creative Will, a...
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_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 OVE...
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1:27 Man (d-4) The _ Adam_ , Man, as a race. It will be spelled with a
capital, to avoid repetition of the note....
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MALE AND FEMALE] There is nothing in this account of the Creation to
suggest that the sexes were not simultaneously created: contrast
Genesis 2:21, which is from the earlier document.
29, 30. The writ...
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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...
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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...
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God created people. To create means to make something that is
completely new....
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CREATED. — This significant verb is thrice repeated with reference
to man. It indicates, first, that man has that in him which was not a
development or evolution, but something new. He is, in fact, th...
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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,...
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וַ יִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֶת ־הָֽ
אָדָם֙ בְּ
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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...
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MAN CREATION'S CROWN
Genesis 1:20
Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal
Power and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20. And all
things and beings were mad...
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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...
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MAN IS DIFFERENT
Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was
different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the
earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
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_Male and female. Eve was taken from Adam's side on this same day,
though it be related in the following chapter. Adam was not an
hermaphrodite as some have foolishly asserted. (Calmet) --- Adam means...
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
Reader! mark the peculiarity of expression. Here is not, as before, a
command to create, but a...
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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...
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27._So God created man _The reiterated mention of the image of God is
not a vain repetition. For it is a remarkable instance of the Divine
goodness which can never be sufficiently proclaimed. And, at...
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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...
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SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE,.... Which consisted both in the
form of his body, and the erect stature of it, different from all
other creatures; in agreement with the idea of that body, prepare...
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So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
Ver. 27. _So God created man in his own image._] There is a double
image of God in the soul...
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Gen. 1:27-30
Gen. 1:27-30. _Covenant with Adam._ "So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he
them; and God blessed them, and God said unto the...
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_So God created man in his own image_ In his _natural_, but especially
in his _moral_ image, with an habitual conformity of all his powers to
the will of God, his understanding clearly discerning, his...
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[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...
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So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created He them. God made an impression of His
own essence upon the soul of man, making his intellect keen for...
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The Creation and Blessing of Man...
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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...
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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...
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26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour
and a favour to him. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts
were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and whi...
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Not both together, as some of the Jews have fabled, but successively,
the woman after and out of the man, as is more particularly related,
GENESIS 2:21, &c., which is here mentioned by anticipation. A...
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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...
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‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him, male and female he created them.'
Now man's privilege is stressed. He is created in God's own image.
Notice the stress on the...
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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...
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Genesis 1:27
Man is one, yet threefold: he has mind, body, and soul, a mind ruling
the body, a body executing the decrees of the mind, a soul giving life
to and energising the body. On the mind alone...
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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...
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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...
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_Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness_
THE CREATION OF MAN
I. THAT THE CREATION OF MAN WAS PRECEDED BY A DIVINE CONSULTATION.
1. This consultation was Divine. Held by the Three Persons...
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THE PERFECT PATTERN
God created man in his own image. Genesis 1:27.
Some grown-up people have, as you boys and girls know, a way of
turning you around about and looking you up and down, and then say...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:27 The term IMAGE OF GOD can be seen as
describing the ways in which man is different from all other created
beings. It describes how humans resemble God in their ability to...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 1:26. Man] Heb. _’âdhâm_ (Adam). The reader of the Heb.
can scarcely resist the impression that a close connection was meant
to be seen between _’âdhâm_ “man,” and, _adhâmâh_...
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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...
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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...
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in the image. Psalms 139:14 Isaiah 43:7 Ephesians 2:10 Ephesians 4:24...
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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 the...
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CREATION SCENES
Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command
to t
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Were Adam and Eve real people or just myths?
PROBLEM: Many modern scholars consider the first Chapter s of Genesis
to be myth, not history. But the Bible seems to present Adam and Eve
as literal peop...