Genesis For People On The Go

. ● Gen 3:8a . . They heard the voice of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; The Hebrew word for "voice" is somewhat ambiguous. It can not only indicate a vocal sound, but lots of other kinds of noises too; e.g. horns, crackling, snapping, cackling, bleating...

. ● Gen 3:7 . .Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they perceived that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths. For convenience sake; let's attribute Eve's new perception to the so-called fallen nature. The big question is: From where did...

. ]● Gen 3:6a . . When the woman saw that the tree was good for eating By watching what birds and animals eat, people can often tell what's safe for human consumption. That's not always true of course, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb. So the woman could safely assume the tree wasn't...

. ● Gen 3:5 . . God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. If someone presented you with an opportunity to bring your mind up to the level of God's intelligence, and you didn't know any better, wouldn't you take it? I...

. ● Gen 3:1b . . He said to the woman, A characteristic of Eden's world was not only a lack of human death, but also a lack of fear. Man feared neither himself, nor the other creatures, nor the dark, nor the boogie man. The woman displayed no recorded astonishment whatsoever when the Serpent...

. ● Gen 3:1a . . Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. Probably no other creature in the Bible provokes so much skepticism as the Serpent. It just smacks of mythology. But this particular serpent was no ordinary reptile. It was indeed a...

. ● Gen 2:23b . .This one shall be called Woman, for from Man was she taken. The Hebrew word for "woman" is from 'ishshah (ish-shaw') which is the feminine form of 'iysh (eesh) which means a human being as an individual or as a male person. So 'ishshah doesn't indicate another species of human...

. ● Gen 2:22b . . and He introduced her to the man. Why wasn't Eve given a chance to fit in with the animals before introducing her to Adam? Well, I think it's because men can make do with a soccer ball named Wilson if they have to; but normal women, as a rule, can't. Men and Women share a lot...

. ● Gen 2:21a-22a . . So the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon the man; and, while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that spot. And the Lord God fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man into a woman; The Hebrew word for "rib" is tsela' (tsay-law') and Gen...

. ● Gen 2:18 . .Yhvh God said: It's not good for Adam to be solitary; I will make a fitting helper for him. That is a curious statement considering that God had given His creation an evaluation of "very good" back in Gen 1:31. Well; the evaluation was based upon "every thing that He had made"...

. ● Gen 2:15-17 . .The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for in the day you eat...

. ● Gen 2:10a . . A river issues from Eden to water the garden, The verb "issues" is in grammatically present tense; indicating whoever wrote Gen 2:10, did so while the land of Eden yet existed. The authorship of Genesis has yet to be positively established. A verse like 2:10 strongly suggests...

. ● Gen 2:8a . .Yhvh God planted a garden in Eden, The Hebrew word for "garden" is from gan (gan) which means a garden as fenced; in other words; walled-- I assume to protect it from foraging animals; which makes sense seeing as how the garden would be Adam's primary food source. I'm guessing...

. ● Gen 2:6 . . a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. The Hebrew word for "mist" is 'ed (ade). It's a very rare word and appears only one more time in the whole Bible at Job 36:27 where it's apparently speaking of the process of evaporation; which typically...

. ● Gen 2:1-2 . .The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done. Thrice it's stated in that passage that the creator finished His work and ceased...

. ● Gen 1:28a . . God blessed them and God said to them: Be fruitful and increase, Some interpret that verse to be an edict requiring married people to have children; and that they have no business getting married for any other reason. But the wording is so obviously a blessing rather than a...

. ● Gen 1:26a . . And God said: Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness. The introduction of the plural personal pronouns "us" and "our" into the narrative at this point has given rise to some interesting speculation regarding the identities of the antecedents. The Hebrew word for...

. ● Gen 1:22a . . God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and increase, This is the very first place in the Bible where the Hebrew word for "bless" shows up. It's somewhat ambiguous, but in this case I think it's pretty safe to assume that it means to furnish freely or naturally with some power...

. ● Gen 1:20-21a . . 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. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly...

. ● Gen 1:15-18a . . and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the Earth. And it was so. God made the two great lights, the greater light to dominate the day and the lesser light to dominate the night, and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the sky to...