- Jun 1, 2018
- 821
- 539
- 31
- Country
- United States
- Faith
- Non-Denom
- Marital Status
- Married
- Politics
- US-Libertarian
Shouldn't the first 3 verses of Genesis 2 really be at the end of Genesis 1?
I have seen and heard from several sources that Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are written by different authors. Now I don't know the legitimacy of this claim, however it does make sense when you compare the wording of the chapters, and even beyond just these 2 chapters it looks like a lot of them are written by different people. It's almost like God Himself wrote chapter one, Adam wrote chapter two, his son wrote chapter 3, etc...
Regardless, I am no Hebrew scholar, and do not know how to interpret how each part of the OT differs from other parts language-wise and how they are using their alphabet in their words, whether it's Aramaic or not, and even their writing styles. All I know how to do is pick up a lexicon and lookup the translations.
So after reading chapters one and two in Genesis, I noticed that it would seem that the first 3 verses of chapter 2 would just fit better in chapter one...
Genesis 1:31 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.
Genesis 2:1-3 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 made. 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.
Though the only reason I could see why not change this is if the author of chapter 2 wrote the first 3 verses in chapter 2 and if they weren't just thrown in there for no reason (which, this is the bible, I realize. There have probably been plenty of people before me trying to decode this very thing also).
I have seen and heard from several sources that Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are written by different authors. Now I don't know the legitimacy of this claim, however it does make sense when you compare the wording of the chapters, and even beyond just these 2 chapters it looks like a lot of them are written by different people. It's almost like God Himself wrote chapter one, Adam wrote chapter two, his son wrote chapter 3, etc...
Regardless, I am no Hebrew scholar, and do not know how to interpret how each part of the OT differs from other parts language-wise and how they are using their alphabet in their words, whether it's Aramaic or not, and even their writing styles. All I know how to do is pick up a lexicon and lookup the translations.
So after reading chapters one and two in Genesis, I noticed that it would seem that the first 3 verses of chapter 2 would just fit better in chapter one...
Genesis 1:31 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.
Genesis 2:1-3 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 made. 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.
Though the only reason I could see why not change this is if the author of chapter 2 wrote the first 3 verses in chapter 2 and if they weren't just thrown in there for no reason (which, this is the bible, I realize. There have probably been plenty of people before me trying to decode this very thing also).
Last edited: