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Verse Genesis 1:28. _AND GOD BLESSED THEM_] Marked them as being
under his especial protection, and gave them power to propagate and
multiply their own kind on the earth. A large volume would be
insu...
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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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II. THE COMMISSION TO MAN.
28. AND GOD BLESSED THEM.
The nature of the blessing is explained in the rest of the verse. He
made them fruitful, capable of reproducing rational beings like
themselves,...
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THEM. Emph. Figure of speech _Prolepsis_ (App-6). The actual building
of Eve not till Genesis 2:20.
REPLENISH. fill, as Genesis 1:22 and nearly every occurrence.
HAVE DOMINION. Compare Psalms 8;...
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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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_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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The Blessing and the Command
28. _replenish_ The word is the same as that used in Genesis 1:22 of
the fishes, "be fruitful, and multiply, and _fill_the waters."
_and subdue it_ A strong word, denotin...
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GOD BLESSED THEM, &C.— He pronounced his blessing upon them: he gave
them the earth as their possession, and commanded them to multiply and
replenish it with inhabitants. Children and the fruit of the...
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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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1:28 moveth (e-42) Or 'creepeth;' and so elsewhere. Ch. 8.17,19....
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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 told people to rule over the earth and the sea and the birds and
the animals. Therefore, we are responsible for the whole earth. We
must look after it and we must take care of it. That is part of...
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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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וַ יְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָם֮ אֱלֹהִים֒ וַ
יֹּ֨אמֶר לָה
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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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Increase and multiply. This is not a precept, as some protestant
controvertists would have it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful:
for God had said the same words to the fishes and birds, (ver. 2...
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And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
It is deserving our attention, that God's approbation of his work at
the clo...
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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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28._And God blessed them _This blessing of God may be regarded as the
source from which the human race has flowed. And we must so consider
it not only with reference to the whole, but also, as they sa...
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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,.... The man and the woman he had made, with all
the blessings of nature and Providence; with all the good things of
life; with his presence, and with communion with himself in a...
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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over ever...
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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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_Be fruitful, and replenish the earth_ A large estate is given them,
and they are to fill it with inhabitants, to cultivate it, and enjoy
the fruits it produces. But these words rather contain a bened...
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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, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every...
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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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MOVETH:
_ Heb._ creepeth...
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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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Having blessed them with excellent natures, and heavenly gifts and
graces, he further _blesseth them_ with a special and temporal
blessing expressed in the following words. REPLENISH THE EARTH, with
i...
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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 1:28 God H430 blessed H1288 (H8762) God H430 said H559 (H8799)
fruitful H6509 (H8798) multiply...
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‘And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living...
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DISPENSATION
A dispensation is a period of time during which man is tested in
respect of obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God.
Seven such dispensations are distinguished in Script...
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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 1:28
Does this command mean for the human race a destiny of progress or
poverty? This question is being pressed upon us to-day from many
directions. It is asked, not only by theologians and ec...
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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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_Have dominion_
MAN’S DOMINION OVER THE LOWER ANIMALS
I. THIS DOMINION GOD HAS MADE TO ARISE FROM THAT MENTAL SUPERIORITY
WHICH CONSTITUTES MAN’S DISTINCTION AND GLORY.
1. The power of man is in hi...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:28 Although the word “covenant” does
not occur in the Bible until Genesis 6:18, many consider Ge
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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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Genesis 1:22 Genesis 8:17 Genesis 9:1 Genesis 9:7 Genesis 17:16...
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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