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Verse Genesis 2:3. _AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY_] The original
word ברך _barach_, which is generally rendered _to bless_, has a
very extensive meaning. It is frequently used in Scripture in the
s...
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- The Seventh Day
1. צבא _tsābā'_ “a host in marching order,” a company of
persons or things in the order of their nature and the progressive
discharge of their functions. Hence, it is applied to th...
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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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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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Thus in six days God completed His work of creation, and as He
reviewed it He uttered the same verdict on the whole, only in a
heightened form (very good and not merely good) that He had uttered on
th...
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AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY AND SANCTIFIED IT.
He made the day blessed, or rich in blessings to man, distinguished it
above other days by his special regard, hallowed it by setting it
apart from...
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CREATED. See note on Genesis 1:1. The Introduction (Genesis 1:1;
Genesis 2:3) is the summary: Genesis 2:4 gives the details of...
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_And God blessed the seventh day_) It was the belief of the devout
Israelite that in some mysterious way God at the beginning conferred
His special favour upon the seventh day. The writer does not in...
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NOTE ON THE SABBATH
In connexion with the Institution of the Sabbath recorded in Genesis
2:1-3 the following points deserve to be noticed.
1. The writer gives the reason for the sanctity among the H...
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DISCOURSE: 2
APPOINTMENT OF THE SABBATH
Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had
made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made. And God blessed t...
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GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT— _Blessed_, i.e..
says Mr. Locke, appointed it to be kept as a day of holy rejoicing;
_and sanctified it, i.e._. separated, or set it apart, for his own...
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Day Seven: Rest Genesis 2:1-3
_And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day...
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_AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT: BECAUSE THAT IN
IT HE HAD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD CREATED AND MADE._
Blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. On the creation of the...
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2:3 it. (f-26) Lit. 'created to make.'...
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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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AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT] A sublime sentence! 'By the word of
the Lord were the heavens made.' Light and darkness are regarded as
two objects, each occupying a place of its own (Job 38:19). Li...
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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...
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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 spec...
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SANCTIFIED IT. — That is, separated it from ordinary uses, and
hallowed it. Legal observance of the Sabbath did not begin till the
days of Moses (Exodus 31:13; Exodus 35:2); but this blessing and
sanc...
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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 יְבָ֤רֶךְ אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־יֹ֣ום הַ
שְּׁבִיע
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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 IN EDEN, INNOCENCE
Genesis 2:1
The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from
the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from
weariness, or exhaustion,...
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This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct
movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account.
First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed"
su...
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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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A DAY OF REST
A Bible school teacher once told the story of creation. One of her
four year old students then said, "On the seventh day God went to
jail." When asked to explain, he said, "You said that...
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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it
he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Deuteronomy 5:14. How beautiful is it to behold the first institution...
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_THE SACRED DAY_
‘And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in
it He had rested from all His work which god created and made.’
Genesis 2:3
I. WHETHER THE PATRIARCHS WERE OR W...
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3._And God blessed the seventh day _It appears that God is here said
to bless according to the manner of men, because they bless him whom
they highly extol. Nevertheless, even in this sense, it would...
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In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion
as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a
creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
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AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT,.... A day in which
he took delight and pleasure, having finished all his works, and
resting from them, and looking over them as very good; and so he...
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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it
he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Ver. 3. _God blessed the seventh day,_] i.e., made it an effectual
m...
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Gen. 2:3. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, etc."
It is rendered very probable by Bedford in his Scripture
Chronology,"[1730 folio. - G.] that this first Sabbath being the first
day...
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_God blessed the seventh day_ He conferred on it peculiar honour, and
annexed to it special privileges above those granted to any other day;
_and sanctified it_ That is, separated it from common use,...
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1 The first Sabbath.
4 The maner of the creation.
8 The planting of the garden of Eden,
10 and the riuer thereof.
17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the
creatures.
21 T...
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And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it
He had rested from all His work which God created and made. In the
blessing of the seventh day as a day of rest for Himself and as...
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The Sabbath of Creation...
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See Genesis 1:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes for Genesis
2:1-3
12.Genesis 2:1. _The Divine Sabbath_. Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens
and the ear
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THE SEVENTH DAY
The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1.
"Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were
finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
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CREATED AND MADE:
_ Heb._ created to make...
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1-3 After six days, God ceased from all works of creation. In
miracles, he has overruled nature, but never changed its settled
course, or added to it. God did not rest as one weary, but as one well
p...
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GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, by conferring special honours and
privileges upon it above all other days, that it should be a day of
solemn rest and rejoicing and celebration of God and his works, and a...
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The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely,
"the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special
attention.
There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
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Genesis 2:3 God H430 blessed H1288 (H8762) seventh H7637 day H3117
sanctified H6942 (H8762) because H3588 rested...
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‘And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and
he rested (ceased work) on the seventh day from all the work which he
had made. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, bec...
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SANCTIFIED
In the Old Testament The same Hebrew word (qodesh) is translated
sanctify, consecrate, dedicate, and holy. It means, set apart for the
service of God. See refs. Following "Sanctify,"
(_ S...
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Genesis 2:3
I. Whether the patriarchs were or were not commanded to keep the
Sabbath is a thing which we can never know; it is no safe foundation
for our thinking ourselves bound to keep it, that the...
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Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
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CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27
explained. The Edenic covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve.
CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real
man i...
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Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought,
but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6.
Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan
Pentateuch reads, the si...
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_He rested on the seventh day_
THE DIVINE SABBATH:
I. THE DIVINE COMPLETION OF HIS CREATIVE WORK. No further creations.
II. THE DIVINE CONTEMPLATION OF HIS CREATIVE WORK. Everything
complete. Everyt...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:1 God has now completed the process of
putting his creation in order (see note on 1:1–2:3). That God RESTED
does not imply he was weary from labor. Rather, God’s resting hint...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 2:2. Rested] “Kept sabbath,” _i.e._ “observed a sacred,
festive quiet.” A good worker does his work well, and leaves off
when he has done. The very crown of his work is the p...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 2:1
THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED. Literally, and finished
were the heavens and the earth, the emphatic position being occupied
by the verb. With the creation of man...
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
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blessed. Exodus 16:22 Exodus 20:8 Exodus 23:12 Exodus 31:13 Exodus 34:
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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...