King James Version
Genesis 1
31 verses with commentary
The Creation of the World
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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<strong>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</strong> This majestic opening declares the fundamental truth of biblical theology: God is the sovereign Creator of all that exists. The Hebrew word <em>bereshit</em> (בְּרֵאשִׁית) means "in beginning" without the definite article, suggesting not merely a temporal starting point but the absolute origin of all created reality.<br><br>Th...
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THE CREATIVE WEEK (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3).
(1) **In the beginning.**—Not, as in John 1:1, “from eternity,” but in the beginning of this sidereal system, of which our sun, with its attendant planets, forms a part. As there never was a time when God did not exist, and as activity is an essential part of His being (John 5:17), so, probably, there was never a time when worlds did not exist; and i...
Read full commentary →And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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<strong>And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</strong> This verse describes the initial state of creation before God's ordering work. The Hebrew phrase <em>tohu wabohu</em> (תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, "without form and void") denotes chaos and emptiness—not evil or disorder resulting from judgment, but the...
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(2) **And the earth.**—The conjunction “and” negatives the well-meant attempt to harmonise geology and Scripture by taking Genesis 1:1 as a mere heading; the two verses go together, and form a general summary of creation, which is afterwards divided into its several stages.
Was is not the copula, but the substantive verb *existed*, and expresses duration of time. After creation, the earth existed ...
Read full commentary →And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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<strong>And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.</strong> This verse introduces God's creative method: His powerful word. The Hebrew <em>vayomer Elohim</em> (וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, "and God said") reveals that creation occurs through divine speech—effortless, sovereign decree. The immediate fulfillment ("and there was light") demonstrates the absolute authority and efficacy of God's wor...
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THE CREATIVE DAYS.
(3) **And God said.**—Voice and sound there could be none, nor was there any person to whom God addressed this word of power. The phrase, then, is metaphorical, and means that God enacted for the universe a law; and ten times we find the command similarly given. The beauty and sublimity of the language here used has often been noticed: God makes no preparation, He employs no mea...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PENTATEUCH AND HISTORICAL BOOKS
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. the light from: Heb. between the light and between the darkness
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<strong>And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness....</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br>The recurring ...
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(4) **And God saw.**—This contemplation indicates, first, lapse of time; and next, that the judgment pronounced was the verdict of the Divine reason.
**That it was good.**—As light was a necessary result of motion in the world-mass, so was it indispensable for all that was to follow, inasmuch as neither vegetable nor animal life can exist without it. But the repeated approval by the Deity of each ...
Read full commentary →And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And the evening: Heb. And the evening was, and the morning was
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<strong>And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(5) **God called the light Day . . . Night.**—Before this distinction of night and day was possible there must have been outside the earth, not as yet the sun, but a bright phosphorescent mass, such as now enwraps that luminary; and, secondly, the earth must have begun to revolve upon its axis. Consequent upon this would be, not merely alternate periods of light and darkness, but also of heat and ...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PENTATEUCH AND HISTORICAL BOOKS
by Robert Jamieson
**The Pentateuch, the name by which the first five books of the Bible are designated, is derived from two Greek words, pente, "five," and teuchos, a "volume," thus signifying the fivefold volume. Originally these books formed one continuous work, as in the Hebrew manuscripts they are still connected in one unbroken roll. At...
Read full commentary →And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. firmament: Heb. expansion
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<strong>And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(6) **A firmament.**—This is the Latin translation of the Greek word used by the translators of the Septuagint Version. Undoubtedly it means something solid; and such was the idea of the Greeks, and probably also of the Hebrews. As such it appears in the poetry of the Bible, where it is described as a mighty vault of molten glass (Job 37:18), upheld by the mountains as pillars (Job 26:11; 2Samuel ...
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**2. the earth was without form and void--**or in "confusion and emptiness," as the words are rendered in Is 34:11. This globe, at some undescribed period, having been convulsed and broken up, was a dark and watery waste for ages perhaps, till out of this chaotic state, the present fabric of the world was made to arise.
**the Spirit of God moved--**literally, continued brooding over it, as a fow...
Read full commentary →And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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<strong>And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters wh...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(7) **God made the firmament.**—This wide open expanse upon earth’s surface, supplied by the chemistry of nature—that is, of God—with that marvellous mixture of gases which form atmospheric air, was a primary necessity for man’s existence and activity. In each step of the narrative it is ever man that is in view; and even the weight of the superincumbent atmosphere is indispensable for the health ...
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Ge 1:3-5. The First Day.
**3. God said--**This phrase, which occurs so repeatedly in the account means: willed, decreed, appointed; and the determining will of God was followed in every instance by an immediate result. Whether the sun was created at the same time with, or long before, the earth, the dense accumulation of fogs and vapors which enveloped the chaos had covered the globe with a settl...
Read full commentary →And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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<strong>And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day....</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br>The recurr...
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(8) **God called the firmament (the expanse) Heaven.**—This is a Saxon word, and means *something heaved up. *The Hebrew probably means the *heights, *or upper regions, into which the walls of cities nevertheless ascend (Deuteronomy 1:28). In Genesis 1:1, “the heaven” may include the abysmal regions of space; here it means the atmosphere round our earth, which, at a distance of about forty-five mi...
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**4. divided the light from darkness--**refers to the alternation or succession of the one to the other, produced by the daily revolution of the earth round its axis.
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.
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<strong>And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry l...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(9) **Let the waters be gathered together.**—The verb, as Gesenius shows, refers rather to the condensation of water, which, as we have seen, was impossible till the surface of the earth was made cool by the radiation of heat into the open expanse around it.
**Unto one place.**—The ocean bed. We must add the vast depth of the ocean to the height of the mountains before we can rightly estimate the ...
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**5. first day--**a natural day, as the mention of its two parts clearly determines; and Moses reckons, according to Oriental usage, from sunset to sunset, saying not day and night as we do, but evening and morning.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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<strong>And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God ...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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Ge 1:6-8. Second Day.
**6. firmament--**an expanse--a beating out as a plate of metal: a name given to the atmosphere from its appearing to an observer to be the vault of heaven, supporting the weight of the watery clouds. By the creation of an atmosphere, the lighter parts of the waters which overspread the earth's surface were drawn up and suspended in the visible heavens, while the larger and ...
Read full commentary →And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. grass: Heb. tender grass
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<strong>And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding f...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(11) **Let the earth bring forth grass.**—This is the second creative act. The first was the calling of matter into existence, which, by the operation of mechanical and chemical laws, imposed upon it by the Creator, was arranged and digested into a cosmos, that is, an orderly and harmonious whole. These laws are now and ever in perpetual activity, but no secondary or derived agency can either add ...
Read full commentary →And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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<strong>And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding frui...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
Read full commentary →And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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<strong>And the evening and the morning were the third day....</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br>The recurring phrases "And God said," "and it wa...
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Ge 1:9-13. Third Day.
**9. let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place--**The world was to be rendered a terraqueous globe, and this was effected by a volcanic convulsion on its surface, the upheaving of some parts, the sinking of others, and the formation of vast hollows, into which the waters impetuously rushed, as is graphically described (Psa 104:6-9) [Hitchcock]. Thus...
Read full commentary →And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: the day: Heb. between the day and between the night
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<strong>And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; a...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(14) **Let there be lights (luminaries) in the firmament (or expanse) of the heaven.**—In Hebrew the word for light is *ôr, *and for luminary, *ma-ôr, *a light-bearer. The light was created on the first day, and its concentration into great centres must at once have commenced; but the great luminaries did not appear in the open sky until the fourth day. With this begins the second triad of the cre...
Read full commentary →And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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<strong>And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was s...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(15) **To give light.**—This was to be henceforward the permanent arrangement for the bestowal of that which is an essential condition for all life, vegetable and animal. As day and night began on the first day, it is evident that very soon there was a concentrating mass of light and heat outside the earth, and as the expanse grew clear its effects must have become more powerful. There was dayligh...
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**11. let the earth bring forth--**The bare soil was clothed with verdure, and it is noticeable that the trees, plants, and grasses--the three great divisions of the vegetable kingdom here mentioned--were not called into existence in the same way as the light and the air; they were made to grow, and they grew as they do still out of the ground--not, however, by the slow process of vegetation, but ...
Read full commentary →And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. to rule the day: Heb. for the rule of the day, etc.
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<strong>And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the n...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(16) **He made the stars also.**—The Hebrew is, *God made two great lights *. . . *to rule the night; and also the stars. *Though the word “also” carries back “the stars” to the verb “made,” yet its repetition in our version makes it seem as if the meaning was that God now created the stars; whereas the real sense is that the stars were to rule the night equally with the moon. But besides this, th...
Read full commentary →And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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<strong>And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br>The recurring phrases ...
Read full commentary →And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
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<strong>And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw ...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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Ge 1:14-19. Fourth Day.
**14. let there be lights in the firmament--**The atmosphere being completely purified, the sun, moon, and stars were for the first time unveiled in all their glory in the cloudless sky; and they are described as "in the firmament" which to the eye they appear to be, though we know they are really at vast distances from it.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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<strong>And the evening and the morning were the fourth day....</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br>The recurring phrases "And God said," "and it w...
Read full commentary →And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. moving: or, creeping life: Heb. soul fowl: Heb. let fowl fly open: Heb. face of the firmament of heaven
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<strong>And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl tha...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(20) **Let the waters . . . in the open firmament.**—The days of the second creative triad correspond to those of the first. Light was created on the first day, and on the fourth it was gathered into light-bearers; on the second day air and water were called into being, and on the fifth day they were peopled with life; lastly, on the third day the dry land appeared, and on the sixth day it became ...
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**16. two great lights--**In consequence of the day being reckoned as commencing at sunset--the moon, which would be seen first in the horizon, would appear "a great light," compared with the little twinkling stars; while its pale benign radiance would be eclipsed by the dazzling splendor of the sun; when his resplendent orb rose in the morning and gradually attained its meridian blaze of glory, i...
Read full commentary →And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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<strong>And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth ...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(21) **God created great whales.**—Whales, strictly speaking, are mammals, and belong to the creation of the sixth day. But *tannin, *the word used here, means any *long *creature, and is used of serpents in Exodus 7:9-10 (where, however, it may mean a crocodile), and in Deuteronomy 32:33; of the crocodile in Psalm 74:13, Isaiah 51:9, Ezekiel 29:3; and of sea monsters generally in Job 7:12. It thu...
Read full commentary →And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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<strong>And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fo...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(22) **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 and for the fauna.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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<strong>And the evening and the morning were the fifth day....</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br>The recurring phrases "And God said," "and it wa...
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(23) **The fifth day.**—Upon the work of the first four days geology is virtually silent, and the theories respecting the physical formation of the world belong to other sciences. But as regards the fifth day, its testimony is ample. In the lowest strata of rocks, such as the Cambrian and Silurian, we find marine animals, mollusca, and trilobites; higher up in the Devonian rocks we find fish; in t...
Read full commentary →And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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<strong>And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thi...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(24) **Let the earth bring forth.**—Neither this, nor the corresponding phrase in Genesis 1:20, necessarily imply spontaneous generation, though such is its literal meaning. It need mean no more than that land animals, produced on the dry ground, were now to follow upon those produced in the waters. However produced, we believe that the sole active power was the creative will of God, but of His *m...
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Ge 1:20-23. Fifth Day. The signs of animal life appeared in the waters and in the air.
**20. moving creature--**all oviparous animals, both among the finny and the feathery tribes--remarkable for their rapid and prodigious increase.
**fowl--**means every flying thing: The word rendered "whales," includes also sharks, crocodiles, &c.; so that from the countless shoals of small fish to the gr...
Read full commentary →And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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<strong>And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing tha...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
Read full commentary →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 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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<strong>And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the ...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(26) **Let us make man.**—Comp. Genesis 11:7. The making of man is so ushered in as to show that at length the work of creation had reached its perfection and ultimate goal. As regards the use of the plural here, Maimonides thinks that God took counsel with the earth, the latter supplying the body and Elohim the soul. But it is denied in Isaiah 40:13 that God ever took counsel with any one but Him...
Read full commentary →So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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<strong>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he ...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(27) **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, the most perfect work of the creative energy, and differs from the animals not only in degree, but in kind, though possessing, in common with them, an organised body. And next, it indicates the r...
Read full commentary →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 living thing that moveth upon the earth. moveth: Heb. creepeth
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<strong>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, an...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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Ge 1:24-31. Sixth Day. A farther advance was made by the creation of terrestrial animals, all the various species of which are included in three classes: (1) cattle, the herbivorous kind capable of labor or domestication.
**24. beasts of the earth--**(2) wild animals, whose ravenous natures were then kept in check, and (3) all the various forms of creeping things--from the huge reptiles to the in...
Read full commentary →And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. bearing: Heb. seeding seed yielding: Heb. seeding seed
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<strong>And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the ea...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(29) **Every herb bearing seed . . . every tree.**—Of the three classes of plants enumerated in Genesis 1:11, the two most perfect kinds are given to man for his food; while in Genesis 1:30 the birds and animals have not merely the cryptogamous plants of the first class, but every *green herb *granted to them for their sustenance. We are not to suppose that they did not eat seeds and fruits, but t...
Read full commentary →And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life , I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. life: Heb. a living soul
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<strong>And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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**26. The last stage in the progress of creation being now reached--**God said, Let us make man--words which show the peculiar importance of the work to be done, the formation of a creature, who was to be God's representative, clothed with authority and rule as visible head and monarch of the world. In our image, after our likeness--This was a peculiar distinction, the value attached to which appe...
Read full commentary →And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the mor...</strong> This verse is part of the creation account that establishes God's sovereign power and purposeful design. The structured pattern of the seven days reveals divine order, intentionality, and progressive development from formless void to a world prepared for human habitation.<br><br...
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(31) **Behold, it was very good.**—This final blessing of God’s completed work on the Friday must be compared with the final words of Christ spoken of the second creation, upon the same day of the week, when He said “It is finished.” Next we must notice that this world was only *good *until man was placed upon it, but then became *very good. *This verdict, too, had respect to man as a species, and...
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