a Job 38. 4-7. Ps. 33. 6 & 136. 5. Isai. 42. 5 & 45. 18. John 1.1-3. & 17. 24. COMMONLY CALLED GENESIS. IIN the "beginning God creI ated the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the Acts 14. 15 face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, "Let there be light and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Rev. 4. 11. e2 Cor. 4.6. b Jer. 4. 23. d Job 37. 18. Pa. 196. 5. Jer. 10. 12 & 51. 15. 2 Esd. 6. 41. e Prov. 8. 27-29. 6 And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were Ps. 148. 4. fabove the firmament: and it was SO. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. g Job 38. 8-11. Ps. 33. 7 & 136. 6. Jer. 5. 22. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the 2 Pet. 3. 5. dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And & Ps. 104. 14. God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth and it was so. : 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was i Jer. 10. 2. evening and there was morning, a third day. Ezek. 32. & 3. 15. 14 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, Ps. 104. 19. and for seasons, and for days and 1 Or, was brooding upon Luke 21. 23. Deut. 4. Ps. 136.7-9. 19. years: 15 and let them be for lights 3 2 Esd. 6.45. 25, 26. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And m God created the great sea-mon- m Ps. 104. sters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill n ch. 8. 17 the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 22 24 And God said, Let the earth 2 Heb. expanse. r ch. 2. 18, Mal. 2.15 Matt. 19. 4. s ch. 9. 1, 7. t ch. 9. 3. Ps. 104. 14, 15 & 145. 15, 16. image, in the image of God created he him; "male and female created he them. 28 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. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding 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: 30 and "to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of Ps. 147. 9. 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. 31" And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. 1 And the heaven and the 2 earth were finished, and wall the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it: because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. v Eccles. w Dent. 4. 19. Ps. 33. 6. 11 Ex. 20. 8 & 31. 17. Deut. 5. 12-14. Heb. 4. 4. y ch. 1. 1. * Cp. ch. 1. 11, 12. a ch. 3. 23. b ch. 3. 19, 23 & 18. 27. Eccles. ven. 4 These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that 8 the LORD God made earth and hea5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; 6 but Ps. 103. 14. there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his &nosd Job 27.3. trils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And the LORD God planted af garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; 12. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 47. c ch. 7. 22. Job 33. 4. € Cited 1 Cor. 15. 45. f ver. 15. ch. 13. 10. Isai. 51. 3. Ezek. 28. 13 & 31. 8. Joel 2. 3. Rev. 2. 7 (mg.). 4 gch. 3. 22. Rev. 2. 7 ver. 17. 1 Ecclus. 24. 25. 29 & 25. 18. 1 Sam. 15.7. 24. 27. the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. II The name of the first is 'Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there ch. 10. 7, is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the * onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is * Gihon: the same is Ecclus. it that compasseth the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is 51Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15 And the LORD God took the man, mand put him into the garden of m ver. 8. Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 18 And the LORD God said, It is 1 Or, creepeth 2 Heb. a liring soul. 3 Heb. Jehovah, as in other places where LORD is put in 8 Or, Adam 9 Heb. builded he into. 10 Heb. Isshah. 11 Heb. Ish. Sam. 28. 12. |