Bible in one year 4/1/2022 Genesis chapter 1-3 & introduction
By Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce
Christian Arts Ministries:Biblical
precepts & Gospel music; Pastoral ministry & Counseling
Introduction to the book of Genessis
Author: Moses Date:
1450-1410 B.C.
Title The English word
genesis comes by way of Latin, from the Greek to this book. In Hebrew, the book
was named from its first word, which means: in the beginning.” Genesis means
“origin” and thus is an apt title for a book that reveals the origins of all
human history.
Authorship Genesis is the first book of a larger work,
the first five book s of the O.T. called the Pentateuch, the authorship of
which has traditionally been ascribed to Moses. This is supported by the
following considerations: (1) the Pentateuch itself affirms Moses as its author
(Ex.17:14;24:4, 7;34:27; Num.33:1-2;Deut.31:9) (2) other O.T. books testify to
the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch (Josh1:7-8; 8:32,34;22:5 1
Kings2:3;2Kings14:6;21:8; Ezra6:18; Dan.9:11-13; Mal4:4); (3) the N.T. affirms
the same (Matt.19:8; Mark 12:26; John5:46-47; 7:19; Rom.10:5) (4) eyewitness
details point to a participant being the author, not an editor who lived
centuries later (Ex.15:27;Num.21-31;11:7-8); (5) the author’s information about
Egyptian names, words, customs, and geography would have been difficult for an
author or editor to have obtained in Canaan centuries after Moses
time(Gen.13:10;16:1-3;33:18;41:43; Acts.7:22).
The
critical view of the authorship of the Pentateuch has passed through several
stages. At first, Genesis was divided into two documents on the basis of the
use of the two different names for God; Elohim and Yahweh. About 1875, Julius
Wellhausen argued for four documents from which the entire Pentateuch was
compiled. These were: J, written about 850 B.C. by an unknown writer in Judah;
E, written about 750 B.C. by an unknown writer in the Northern Kingdom of
Israel; D, composed by a high priest at the time of the revival under King
Josiah in 621 B.C.; and P, composed from the time of Ezekiel to Ezra.
Archaeological discoveries, however, many since World War I, have demonstrated
the historical accuracy of th Pentateuch and have brought to light customs
practiced in the second millennium B.C. that were not practiced in the first
millennium B.C. How, then, would an author have known of these customs (e.g.,
the double portion going to the oldest son, the sale of a birthright, the
validity of an oral will; Gen.48:17-20) unless he had lived during that earlier
period?
Undoubtedly,
Moses had both oral and written records of early history, which he used under
the guidance of the Holy Spirit to write about events that antedated his own
life. Naturally, someone else must have written the account of his death
(Deut.34)
Contents Genesis is a real life history of individual
people, a fact that is emphasized by the ten sections (following the prologue,
1:1-2:3) that usually begin “these are the records of the generations of”
(6:9;10:1;11:10;11:27;25:12; 25:19;36:1;37:2;2:4;5:1). This thrust provides a
natural unity to the book (Luke3:23-38).
Genesis
is a book about the beginning of many things: the world, man, sin,
civilization, the nations, and Israel.
Genesis
also contains important theological themes: the doctrine of the living,
personal God; the doctrine of man made in the image of God, then of sinful man,
the anticipation of a Redeemer (3:15); and the covenant promises made to the
nation Israel (12:1-3;15:18-21). Genesis is a book unique among all Near
Eastern literature and foundational to all the other books of the Bible.
Chapter 1 The creation of the World; the beginning of
Creation
1 In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.
2 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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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 the evening and the morning were the
first day.
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 above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the
firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 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.
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 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.
12 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.
13 And the evening and
the morning were the third day.
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, and
for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for
lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was
so.
16 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.
17 And God set them in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 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.
19 And the evening and
the morning were the fourth day.
20 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.
21 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.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and
the morning were the fifth day.
24 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.
25 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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27 So God created man
in his own 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 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.
30 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.
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.
Chapter 2 The beginnings of Man and Woman
1 Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 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.
3 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.
4 These are the
generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day
that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of
the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it
grew: 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 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 nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God
planted a 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; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of 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 into
four heads.
11 The name of the
first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where
there 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 it that compasseth the whole land of
Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the
third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And
the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God
took the man, and put him into the garden of 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 not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for
him.
19 And out of the
ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;
and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam
called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names
to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but
for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
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22 And the rib, which the
LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife,
and were not ashamed.
Chapter 3 The Sin of Man; the temptation, the judgments
1 Now the serpent was
more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he
said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden?
2 And the woman said
unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of
the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that
in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and
a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did
eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice
of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden.
9 And the LORD God
called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I
heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself.
11 And he said, Who
told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I
commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said,
The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did
eat.
13 And the LORD God said
unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said
unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all
cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee.
17 And unto Adam he
said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of
the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed
is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life;
18 Thorns also and
thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field;
19 In the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast
thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his
wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 Unto Adam also and
to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God
said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now,
lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and
live for ever:
23 Therefore the LORD
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he
was taken.
24 So he drove out the
man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming
sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
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