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Verse Genesis 1:22. _LET FOWL MULTIPLY IN THE EARTH_.] It is truly
astonishing with what care, wisdom, and minute skill God has formed
the different genera and species of birds, whether intended to l...
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- VII. The Fifth Day
20. שׁרץ _shārats_, “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An
intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own or
a like signification.
נפשׁ _nephesh_, “breath, soul,...
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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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On the fifth day were created the denizens of the water and the
atmosphere; the creatures that move in swarms in the water, all winged
creatures, including insects, and the sea monsters, especially,
p...
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BLESSED. See on Genesis 1:1. Note the threefold blessing at Creation
(Genesis 1:22; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 2:3)....
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The Fifth Day. The Creation of Water Animals and Flying Animals
20. _Let the waters … life_ The rendering, "bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life," fails to give the full meaning o...
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_God blessed them_ With the creation of the living animals of the
water and the air is introduced the mention of a new Divine act, that
of blessing. It is connected with the gift of life (see note on...
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AND GOD BLESSED THEM, &C.— Not only their being, but the continuance
of it is provided for. Life is a fleeting thing; succession is
needful. God hath commanded it shall be, and, in virtue of his
bless...
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Day Five: the Water and Air Species (Genesis 1:20-23)
And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And
God cre...
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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 BLESSED THEM, SAYING, BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE
WATERS IN THE SEAS, AND LET FOWL MULTIPLY IN THE EARTH._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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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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BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY. — This blessing shows that the earth was
replenished with animal life from a limited number of progenitors, and
probably from a small number of centres, both for the flora a...
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וַ יְבָ֧רֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵ
אמֹ֑ר פְּר֣ו
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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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"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...
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And God (r) blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
(r) That is, by the virtue of his word he gave power to his creatures...
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_Blessed them, or enabled them to produce others. --- Multiply: the
immense numbers and variety of fishes and fowls is truly astonishing._...
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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 over...
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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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22._And God blessed them _What is the force of this benediction he
soon declares. For God does not, after the manner of men, pray that we
may be blessed; but, by the bare intimation of his purpose, ef...
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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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AND GOD BLESSED THEM,.... With a power to procreate their kind, and
continue their species, as it is interpreted in the next clause;
SAYING, BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE WATERS IN THE SEAS...
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_And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth._
Ver. 22. _Be fruitful and multiply._] By bidding them do so, he made
th...
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_God blessed them_ Behold the cause of the continuance in existence,
and of the fruitfulness and multiplication, of the sundry kinds of
creatures! It is owing to this word only that, though thousands...
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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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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. As animate
beings both the marine animals and those that inhabit the air r...
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The Creation of Marine Animals and Birds...
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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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20-25 God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he
himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and
beasts, and as curious, seem to have been part of this day's...
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He gave them power of procreation and fruitfulness, which is justly
mentioned as a great blessing, PSALMS 128:3.
FILL THE WATERS IN THE SEAS; and consequently in the rivers, which
come from the sea,...
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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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Genesis 1:22 God H430 blessed H1288 (H8762) saying H559 (H8800)
fruitful H6509 (H8798) multiply H7235 ...
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‘And God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that has life, and let birds fly above the earth on the face
of the expanse of the heaven”. And God created the great sea
mons...
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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 1:1. _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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_And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply_
GOD’S BLESSING ABUNDANT
At the close of this day the Lord does what He has not done on any of
the other four days; He blesses that which He h...
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_Let the waters bring forth abundantly_
FISH AND FOWL
I. THAT LIFE IS THE IMMEDIATE CREATION OF GOD.
1. Life was not an education.
2. It was not the result of combination.
3. It was a miraculous g...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys
the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:20 This section, on day 5, describes how
the WATERS and the EXPANSE OF THE HEAVENS are filled with various
kinds of creatures....
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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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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 1:20. Creature] Here, and in Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24,
“creature” stands for Heb. _nephesh_ (Sept. _psychê_), and in...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 1:20
DAY FIVE.
The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this
filled with their respective inhabitants. AND GOD SAID. Nature never
makes an onward movement, in t...
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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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Genesis 1:28 Genesis 8:17 Genesis 9:1 Genesis 30:27 Genesis 30:30...
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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