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Genesis 3

Genesis 3:1 Now the snake was cleverer than any other living thing of the field that Yahveh God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You will not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:2 And the woman said to the snake, “We are allowed to eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,

Genesis 3:3 but God said, ‘You will not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you will not touch it, or else[1] you will die.'”

Genesis 3:4 But the snake said to the woman, “You will not become mortal and die.

Genesis 3:5 You see, God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to look at, and that the tree was craved to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her man who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves skirts.

Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of Yahveh God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his woman hid themselves from the presence of Yahveh God among the garden’s trees.

Genesis 3:9 But Yahveh God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I instructed you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13 Then Yahveh God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The snake deceived me, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:14 Yahveh God said to the snake, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock and all living things of the field; you will crawl on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15 I will put hatred between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will harm your head, and you will harm his heel.”

Genesis 3:16 To the woman, he said, “I will surely multiply your hardship in childbearing; in hardship you will give birth to[2] children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will have influence over you.”

Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, and this is what I said, ‘You will not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in hardship, you will eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 3:18 It will bring forth for you thorns and thistles, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 3:20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:21 And Yahveh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

Genesis 3:22 Then Yahveh God said, “Notice,[3] the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, or else he might reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live permanently-“[4]

Genesis 3:23 therefore Yahveh God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubs and a flaming sword that turned each way to prevent access to the tree of life.

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[1]פֵּן = or else Genesis 3:3, 22; 11:4; 19:15, 17, 19; 24:6; 26:7, 9; 31:24, 31; 32:12; 38:11, 23; 42:4; 44:34; 45:11.

[2] יָלַד = give birth to, be born, father. Genesis 3:16; 4:1, 2, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26; 5:3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32; 6:1, 4, 10; 10:1, 8, 13, 15, 21, 24, 25, 26; 11:10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27; 16:1, 2, 11, 15, 16; 17:17, 19, 20, 21; 18:13; 19:37, 38; 20:17; 21:2, 3, 5, 7, 9; 22:20, 23, 24; 24:15, 24, 36, 47; 25:2, 3, 12, 19, 24, 26; 29:32, 33, 34, 35; 30:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 39; 31:8, 43; 34:1; 35:16, 17, 26; 36:4, 5, 12, 14; 38:3, 4, 5, 27, 28; 40:20; 41:50; 44:27; 46:15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27; 48:5, 6; 50:23.

[3] הֵן = notice. Genesis 3:22; 4:14; 11:6; 15:3; 19:34; 27:11, 37; 29:7; 30:34; 39:8; 44:8; 47:23.

[4] עוֹלָם = permanent, permanently, ancient, future. Genesis 3:22; 6:3, 4; 9:12, 16; 13:15; 17:7, 8, 13, 19; 21:33; 48:4; 49:26.

Genesis 3 quotes:

“Here in Genesis 3 the death of an animal to cover the man and the woman is a picture of what is to come, the first step of an entire institution of sacrifices that points us finally to the supreme sacrifice and what Jesus did to take away our sin and cover up our shame.”

Carson, D. A. The God Who Is There : Finding Your Place in God’s Story. Baker Books, 2010. p. 39.

“The higher critics attacked the books of Genesis and Revelation because the subtle serpent within them knew that no other books exposed him as much. If you want to know how the serpent came in and what his destiny will be, you need to read the first chapters of Genesis and the last chapters of Revelation. Revelation 12:9 mentions “the ancient serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan.” The word “ancient” that describes the serpent refers to the time of Genesis 3. Therefore, if we did not have the books of Genesis and Revelation, the subtle serpent would not be fully exposed. Thus, the serpent invented the so-called modern criticism in an attempt to discredit these two books.

Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Genesis. 1st ed., Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 227.

” We therefore insist that Genesis 1 to 3 is a literal account of the creation of the world, its inhabitants, and man. It is a literal account of how sin and death and sorrow entered the race. It is a literal account of the strategies of Satan, of the curse of God on creation, and a literal account of God’s plan of redemption in the slaying of a substitute to atone for man’s sin (Genesis 3:21). To deny the literal account of creation is to destroy the reality of sin, and death, and sorrow. If the record of Genesis 3 is not literally true, then what explanation can we give for the fact of sin, disease, violence, death, destruction, and war? Then how can we account for the depravity of human nature? Then how do we know the records of the Gospel to be literally true?”

DeHaan, M. R. Genesis and Evolution. Zondervan, 1962. p. 33.

Genesis 3 links:

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Genesis 2

Genesis 2:1 So the sky and the land were finished, and all the army[1] of them.

Genesis 2:2 Then on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he stopped[2] on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Genesis 2:3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it special, because on it he stopped from all his work that God had done by creating.

Genesis 2:4 This is the history[3] of the sky and the land when they were created, in the day that Yahveh God made the land and the sky.

Genesis 2:5 Before any bush of the field was in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up – because Yahveh God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no person to work the ground,

Genesis 2:6 and a mist was regularly ascending from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground –

Genesis 2:7 then Yahveh God formed the first man from dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breathing[4] of life, and that man became a living throat.

Genesis 2:8 Now Yahveh God had planted a garden at Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground Yahveh God made every tree to grow up that one would crave[5] to look at and was good to eat. The tree of life was in the middle of this garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was also there.

Genesis 2:10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

Genesis 2:13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15 Yahveh God took the human and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Genesis 2:16 And Yahveh God commanded the human, and this is what he said, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat, for in the day that you eat of it “you will be mortal, you will die.”

Genesis 2:18 Then Yahveh God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a partner[6] fit for him.”

Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground Yahveh God had formed every living thing of the field and every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living throat, that was its name.

Genesis 2:20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the sky and to every living thing of the field. But for Adam there was not found a partner fit for him.

Genesis 2:21 Then Yahveh God threw down this Adam into a deep sleep, and while he slept took one of his ribs and shut up flesh[7] in its place.

Genesis 2:22 And the rib that Yahveh God had taken from this Adam he made into a woman and brought her to this Adam.

Genesis 2:23 Then this Adam said, “This finally is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she will be called a woman, because she was taken out of a man.”

Genesis 2:24 Because of this a man will leave his father and his mother and hold fast[8] to his woman, and they will become as one flesh.

Genesis 2:25 And the man and his woman were both naked and were not ashamed.

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[1] צָבָא = army. Genesis 2:1; 21:22, 32; 26:26.

[2] שָׁבַת = stop. Genesis 2:2, 3; 8:22.

[3] תּוֹלֵדוֹת = history, generation. Genesis 2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1, 32; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 13, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2.

[4]נְשָׁמָה = breathing. Genesis 2:7; 7:22.

[5]חמד = crave. Genesis 2:9; 3:6.

[6]עֵזֶר = partner Genesis 2:18, 20.

[7] בָּשָׂר = flesh, meat. Genesis 2:21, 23, 24; 6:3, 12, 13, 17, 19; 7:15, 16, 21; 8:17; 9:4, 11, 15, 16, 17; 17:11, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25; 29:14; 37:27; 40:19; 41:3, 4, 19.

[8] דָּבַק = hold fast. Genesis 2:24; 19:19; 31:23; 34:3.

Genesis 2 quotes

“The Hebrew words translated ‘work’ and ‘take care’ (Genesis 2:15) are both used later in the Bible in specifically religious contexts. “Work’ is often used to speak of the service of God — particularly, in some texts, the service of priests in the tabernacle.’’ ‘Take care’ is also frequently used of religious duties, especially the Levites’ task of guarding the tabernacle.’* These links underline the significance of our responsibilities in creation. When we ‘work’ the earth and ‘take care’ of it we are engaged in a high calling: the priestly task of worshipping God.”

Roberts, Vaughan. God’s Big Design : Life As He Intends It to Be. Inter-Varsity, 2005. p. 61.

” If God has the kind of power we see in this pericope, then we know not to take this language in any literalistic fashion: God does not get tired as we do (see also Isa. 40:28-31). Hence the language is analogical, and the import is that human work and rest are analogies of God’s work and rest.”

Collins, C. John. Genesis 1-4 : A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary. P & R Pub, 2006. p. 77.

“When we read the account of Adam’s creation in Genesis 2 in the context of the creation of the first man in Genesis 1, the suggestion that Adam functioned as a vicegerent is reinforced.”

Munther, Isaac. From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth : A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land. Langham Monographs, 2015. p. 38.

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[1] צָבָא = army. Genesis 2:1; 21:22, 32; 26:26.

[2] שָׁבַת = stop. Genesis 2:2, 3; 8:22.

[3] תּוֹלֵדוֹת = history, generation. Genesis 2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1, 32; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 13, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2.

[4]נְשָׁמָה = breathing. Genesis 2:7; 7:22.

[5]חמד = crave. Genesis 2:9; 3:6.

[6]עֵזֶר = partner Genesis 2:18, 20.

[7] בָּשָׂר = flesh, meat. Genesis 2:21, 23, 24; 6:3, 12, 13, 17, 19; 7:15, 16, 21; 8:17; 9:4, 11, 15, 16, 17; 17:11, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25; 29:14; 37:27; 40:19; 41:3, 4, 19.

Genesis 2 links:

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GENESIS in Jeff’s library

Genesis 1

Genesis 1:1 At first,[1] God created the sky[2] and the land,[3]

Genesis 1:2 but the land was unformed and unfilled, and the deep space was dark, and God’s Breath[4] was shaking up the water.

Genesis 1:3 Then God said, “Let light be,” and there was light,

Genesis 1:4 and God saw how good the light was. God separated[5] the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5 God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. After evening was over and morning came, it marked the first day.

Genesis 1:6 Then God said, “Let a separator be placed in the midst of the water, and let it separate the water above from the water below.”

Genesis 1:7 so God made the separator and separated the water that was under the separator from the water that was over the separator. And it became that way.

Genesis 1:8 God called the separator “sky.” After evening was over and morning came, it marked the second day.

Genesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:10 God called the dry ground Land, and the water that had been gathered together he called Seas, and God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout flora: plants producing seed,[6] and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the land.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:12 The land produced flora: plants producing seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, and God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:13 After evening was over and morning came, it marked the third day.

Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let luminaries show in the separator of the sky to separate the day from the night. And let them serve as signs and distinguish seasons, and days and years,

Genesis 1:15 and let them serve as lights in the divider of the sky to give light upon the land.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:16 And God made the two large luminaries- the larger luminary to influence the day and the lesser luminary to influence the night- and he also made the stars.

Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the divider of the sky to light the land,

Genesis 1:18 to influence[7] the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:19 After evening was over and morning came, it marked the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living throats,[8] and let birds fly above the land across the divider of the sky.”

Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living throat that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw how good it was.

Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, and this is what he said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let birds multiply on the land.”

Genesis 1:23 And After evening was over and morning came, it marked the fifth day.

Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the land bring forth living throats according to their kinds – livestock and moving things[9] and living things[10] of the land according to their kinds.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:25 And God made the living things of the land according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that moves on the ground according to its kind. And God approved.

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image, after our likeness. And let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the land and over every moving thing that creeps on the land.”

Genesis 1:27 So God created humanity in his own image, he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Bear fruit and become many and fill the land and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over everything alive that moves on the land.”

Genesis 1:29 And God said, “Notice,[11] I have given you every plant producing seed that is on the face of all the land, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You will have them for food.

Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the land and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the land, everything that has a living throat on it, I have given all flora for food.” And it became that way.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and noticed it was very good. And after evening was over and morning came, it marked the sixth day.

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[1]רֵאשִׁית = first Genesis 1:1; 10:10; 49:3.

[2]שָׁמַיִם = sky Genesis 1:1, 8-9, 14-15, 17, 20, 26, 28, 30; 2:1, 4, 19-20; 6:7, 17; 7:3, 11, 19, 23; 8:2; 9:2; 11:4; 14:19, 22; 15:5; 19:24; 21:17; 22:11, 15, 17; 24:3, 7; 26:4; 27:28, 39; 28:12, 17; 49:25.

[3]אֶרֶץ = land Genesis 1:1-2, 10-12, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24-26, 28-30; 2:1, 4-6, 11-13; 4:12, 14, 16; 6:4-6, 11-13, 17; 7:3-4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 17-19, 21, 23-24; 8:1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 22; 9:1-2, 7, 10-11, 13-14, 16-17, 19; 10:5, 8, 10-11, 20, 25, 31-32; 11:1-2, 4, 8-9, 28, 31; 12:1, 5-7, 10; 13:6-7, 9-10, 12, 15-17; 14:19, 22; 15:7, 13, 18; 16:3; 17:8; 18:2, 18, 25; 19:1, 23, 28, 31; 20:1, 15; 21:21, 23, 32, 34; 22:2, 18; 23:2, 7, 12-13, 15, 19; 24:3-5, 7, 37, 52; 25:6; 26:1-4, 12, 22; 27:28, 39, 46; 28:4, 12-14; 29:1; 30:25; 31:3, 13, 18; 32:3, 9; 33:3, 18; 34:1-2, 10, 21, 30; 35:6, 12, 16, 22; 36:5-7, 16-17, 20-21, 30-31, 34, 43; 37:1, 10; 38:9; 40:15; 41:19, 29-31, 33-34, 36, 41, 43-48, 52-57; 42:5-7, 9, 12-13, 29-30, 32-34; 43:1, 11, 26; 44:8, 11, 14; 45:6-8, 10, 17-20, 25-26; 46:6, 12, 20, 28, 31, 34; 47:1, 4, 6, 11, 13-15, 20, 27-28; 48:3-5, 7, 12, 16, 21; 49:15, 30; 50:5, 7-8, 11, 13, 24.

[4]רוּחַ =breath, wind Genesis 1:2; 3:8; 6:3, 17; 7:15, 22; 8:1; 26:35; 41:8, 38; 45:27.

[5]בדל = separate Genesis 1:4, 6-7, 14, 18.

[6] זֶרָע = seed. Genesis 1:11, 12, 29; 3:15; 4:25; 7:3; 8:22; 9:9; 12:7; 13:15, 16; 15:3, 5, 13, 18; 16:10; 17:7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19; 19:32, 34; 21:12, 13; 22:17, 18; 24:7, 60; 26:3, 4, 24; 28:4, 13, 14; 32:12; 35:12; 38:8, 9; 46:6, 7; 47:19, 23, 24; 48:4, 11, 19.

[7]מָשַׁל = influence, rule. Genesis 1:18; 3:16; 4:7; 24:2; 37:8; 45:8, 26.

[8]נֶפֶשׁ = throat. Genesis 1:20-21, 24, 30; 2:7, 19; 9:4-5, 10, 12, 15-16; 12:5; 14:21; 17:14; 19:17, 19-20; 23:8; 27:4; 32:30; 34:8; 35:18; 37:21; 42:21; 44:30; 46:18, 22, 25-27; 49:6.

[9] רֶמֶשׂ = moving thing. Genesis 1:24, 25, 26; 6:7, 20; 7:14, 23; 8:17, 19; 9:3.

[10] חַיָּה = living thing, living. Genesis 1:24, 25, 30; 2:19, 20; 3:1, 14; 7:14, 21; 8:1, 17, 19; 9:2, 5, 10; 37:20, 33.

[11] הִנֵּה = notice. Genesis 1:29, 31; 6:12, 13, 17; 8:11, 13; 9:9; 12:11, 19; 15:4, 12, 17; 16:2, 6, 11, 14; 17:4, 20; 18:2, 9, 10, 27, 31; 19:2, 8, 19, 20, 21, 28; 20:3, 15, 16; 22:1, 7, 11, 13, 20; 24:13, 15, 30, 43, 45, 51, 63; 25:24, 32; 26:8, 9; 27:1, 2, 6, 18, 36, 39, 42; 28:12, 13, 15; 29:2, 6, 25; 30:3; 31:2, 10, 11, 51; 32:18, 20; 33:1; 34:21; 37:7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 29; 38:13, 23, 24, 27, 29; 40:6, 9, 16; 41:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 29; 42:2, 13, 22, 27, 28, 35; 43:21; 44:16; 45:12; 46:2; 47:1; 48:1, 2, 4, 11, 21; 50:5, 18.

Genesis 1 quotes:

“The natural tendency of the universe is to go from order to chaos. The only way to move from chaos to order is to direct energy toward that task. And that’s exactly what we see in Genesis 1.”

David, Benjamin, ed. Seven Days, Many Voices: Insights into the Biblical Story of Creation. Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017. p. 35.

“On the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:14-19), we are given the comparison of day to night, and days to years. If the word “day” doesn’t mean an ordinary day, then the comparison of day to night and day to years becomes meaningless.”

Ham, Ken. A Pocket Guide to Six Days : How Long Were the Days in Genesis 1? Answers in Genesis, 2014. p. 13.

“Man, however, wants evidence. He wants God to explain to his satisfaction just how He did it, and will not accept the simple final statement of Genesis 1:1. While this first verse in the Bible is God’s final word on the origin of the universe, man’s perverted curiosity is not satisfied with God’s definitive statement, and so he seeks to invent his own idea for the origin of the universe, and comes up with a theory of evolution, which wholly or partially rules God out of His creation. Just as in the Garden of Eden, the question is still, ‘Will we believe God’s Word or the speculations of science, so called?’”

DeHaan, M. R. Genesis and Evolution. Zondervan, 1962. p. 13.

“There is a distinction in the text between the first three works of creation, which form the inanimate world, and the second five works of creation, which define the animate life placed within the world.”

Weaver, John. Earthshaping, Earthkeeping: A Doctrine of Creation. Lynx/SPCK, 1999. p. 31.

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Genesis 1 links:

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