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- 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 _deshe'_, “green thing, gr...
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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 questi...
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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...
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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 r...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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 יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִקָּו֨וּ הַ
מַּ֜יִם מִ תַּ֤חַת הַ שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ אֶל
־מָקֹ֣ום אֶחָ֔ד וְ...
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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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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...
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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 G...
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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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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...
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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 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...
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_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...
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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 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...
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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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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 t...
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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 PSALMS 136:6; as also the sea and rivers, all whic...
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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 1:9 God H430 said H559 (H8799) waters H4325 heavens H8064
together H6960 (H8735) into H413 one H259 place H4725 dry H3004 appear
H7200 (H8735)
Let the waters - Psalms 104:5-9; Jeremiah 5:22;...
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‘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...
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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 Colossi...
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_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...
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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. Genesis 12:1 focus
on one main family. There are no real parallels to chs. Genesis...
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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...
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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...
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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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Job 26:7 Job 26:10 Job 38:8 Psalms 24:1 Psalms 24:2 Psalms 33:7 Psalms
95:5 Psalms 104:3 Psalms 104:5 Psalms 136:5...
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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...
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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...