Questions tagged [genesis]
The first book of the Hebrew Bible which covers events from Creation to the start of Israel's sojourn in Egypt. It tells the origins of heaven and earth, Adam, Noah, Noah's sons, Shem, Terah, Ishmael, Isaac, Esau and Jacob.
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If Lot went to Zoar, why did his daughters think no one was left on earth?
Did Lot actually go to Zoar? Bible text would suggest yes. However, why would the daughters think no one was left on earth? Genesis 19:31. It seems to me they arrived in Zoar and later left. Although ...
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God's first attempt to solve Adam's loneliness failed -- Are we supposed to be critical of God's subsequent initial attempts at solutions?
In Genesis 2:19-20, God identifies a problem: Adam is alone. He then presents possible solutions to the problem by bringing all the animals before Adam.
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man ...
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How is it possible Jacob didn’t see Leah’s face or hear her voice?
How could Jacob not tell/ see the face of who he was sleeping with? That it was Leah and not Rachel.
22 So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. 23 But in the evening ...
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If Rebecca was sent away by both her brother and mother, why does it say they sent their sister away?
In Genesis 24 55-59 it says the following:
55 But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain
with us ten days or so; then you may go.”
56 But he said to them, “Do not detain me, ...
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Genesis 1:26 and 28 tells mankind to "subdue" the earth and "rule over" various animals. Exactly what is meant by this in relation to large animals?
In Genesis 1, up until this command, the conflict in the narrative has been very muted. Sure the chaos waters were there, but God is portrayed as being unthreatened by it, and it soon becomes a mere ...
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Tithing in the churches today [closed]
Q. Why are there so many debates about tithing today?
JC Pennys' chain of malls in America has the testimony of tithing; why is it negated today?
Looking unto Abraham, he gave a tithe, Jacob vowed and ...
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Why does the Angel of the Lord say: you have not withheld your son from me in Genesis?
God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, so why does the angel of the Lord say:
“Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from ME
your son, your only son.” Gen 22:12
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Is the angel of the Lord in Genesis 16:7-13 and Matthew 1:18-20 one and the same?
Genesis 16:7-13 ASV
And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, whence camest thou? and ...
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How best to understand the NLT translation of Jeremiah 34:18?
Jeremiah 34:18 NLT
Because you have refused the terms of our covenant, I will cut you apart just as you cut apart the calf when you walked between its halves to solemnize your vows.
Jeremiah 34:18 ...
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Why mankind was mentioned twice apart from others?
What is the difference between Gen:1:27 and Gen:2:22?
Gen 1:27 - So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them.
Gen 2:22 - And the LORD God ...
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Why will Dan not be in heaven? What did he do worse than his brethren?
The entire tribe of Dan is absent from the list of those tribes which are to be found in heaven.
Here is the list given in Revelation 7.
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there ...
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Genesis 12:10-20 and Genesis chapter 20: Why did Abraham lie about Sara, saying she was his sister and not his wife? [closed]
I’m not a biblical scholar so please don’t be too hard on me.
I understand that twice Abraham presented his wife Sara as his sister. First in Egypt and later after Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Does "God said" in Genesis 1:1-3 describe a Fiat Creation? [closed]
It seems at a cursory reading that God spoke things into existence immediately by simply expressing an imperative sentence, with immediate results. There is no hint, it seems, for billions of years ...
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Whom or what was Cain angry at?
ESV Genesis 4:
1Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gottena a man with the help of the LORD.” 2And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of ...
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Is it sound exegesis to see 1 Corinthians 8:6 as based on Genesis 1:26?
Elohim and ὁ θεὸς in Genesis 1
The creation account in Genesis begins with a plural word, elohim to identify God:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1 ESV)
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Was Genesis 12:14–20, in error applying the title " Pharʹaoh", to the king of Egypt?
According to Wikipedia:
Pharaoh is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the annexation of ...
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Genesis 6:20 Insects excluded or included?
From Genesis 6:20:
“Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according
to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to
its kind, two of every sort shall come in ...
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Were the first three days equal in length to the fourth in Genesis 1?
The first three days were marked by the separation of light from darkness
Genesis 1:3 NLT
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.:4 And God saw that it was good. Then he ...
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Does the structure of Gen 1:27 tell us something about the order of mankind’s creation?
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27 ESV
Is this set of 3 lines meant to imply the order in which he made ...
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Is "God is light" more than metaphor in 1 John 1:5?
1 John 1:5 states that God is light - but Genesis 1:3 describes God creating light. Obviously God cannot create himself; nor does his nature change.
I see a few options here, and I'm wondering which, ...
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Does the creation account describing the position of the sun, moon, and stars contradict modern science? [closed]
Then God said: "Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let there be a division between the waters and the waters." Then God went on to make the expanse and divided the waters ...
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Is Psalm 74:13 prophetic of the future or a reference to the past? Was that part of the process of taming the chaotic abyss?
Psalm 74:13You crumbled the sea with Your might; You shattered the heads of the sea monsters on the water. https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16295/jewish/Cha
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Is Amalek the nephew of Leviathan?
Genesis 36:12
Esau’s son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
Genesis 36:22
The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s ...
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Is Iscah also Sarai in Genesis 11:29? [duplicate]
KJV Genesis 11 : 29
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah....
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Were Hagar and Ishmael sent away two times?
We're Hagar and Ishmael sent away twice?
Once when Hagar was pregnant with Ishmael (Gen 16) or when Israel was a baby,?
Second time (Gen 21), were they sent away when he made fun of Isaac at Isaac's ...
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What are the meaning or differences in this Rendition of El [closed]
In the Hebrew
ĕ·lō·hîm - God
ĕ·lō·hāy - gods
ĕ·lō·he·ḵā - gods
ĕ·lō·hê - gods
Elohe
Gen 31:32 BIB+ עִ֠ם ‘im with אֲשֶׁ֨ר ’ă·šer anyone here , תִּמְצָ֣א tim·ṣā If you find אֶת־ ’eṯ- - ...
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Why was the Promised Land divided among Jacob's descendants?
The LORD makes a promise of land to Abraham:
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. (...
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How do we understand Youngs Translation of Gen 3:22?
Nigel J in answering a Question about Gen 3: 22 Translation said:
The big question is 'How does God live ? By the knowledge of good and
evil ? '
This is answered by Young's Literal Translation (see ...
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What is the inference in the reference to "knowledge of good and evil" in Deut. 1:39 and its use in Genesis?
Deut 1:39 states, "...and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil..."
I've read through all of the previous questions on this site concerning this passage and they all ...
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Why did God impute righteousness to Abraham? Does Paul conflate Genesis 15 and Genesis 17 in Romans 4?
Paul states in Romans 4:22 that there was a reason that righteousness was imputed to Abraham ('therefore'). The reason (or reasons) are stated in 4:16-21:
He believed God (who quickens the dead and ...
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Are we sure the Sabbath was/is always on a Saturday, and why are there not names of days in the Bible?
If we read the Bible, God's days start at sunset. God's months start with a new moon (lunar calendar). The Jews in the O.T. & N.T. followed God's lunar calendar, based on the new moon. The seventh ...
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Could there be some deeper/Spiritual meaning why darkness was created ahead of light in Genesis 1:2?
KJV Genesis 1 : 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.
Throughout the Bible darkness is ...
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What is the main reason that God created the woman?
The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will
make a helper suitable for him.”
Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and
all the birds in the sky. He ...
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What is the special significance of the curse imposed on the serpent in Gen 3:15?
We read in Genesis 3:15 (KJV) :
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.
But almost all through ...
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Was Enoch not faithful to God prior to the birth of his first son in Genesis 5?
In Genesis 5 we are told that Enoch walked with God for 300 years
Genesis 5:22 ESV
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
But the sum total ...
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Did Abraham separate with Sarah after sending away Ishmael?
The last time Sarah is with Abraham is when she sent away Ishmael.It is said this grieved Abraham so much
Genesis 21:10-11 ESV
So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the ...
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Why does Jacob say that Benjamin “shall ravin as a wolf” and “divide the spoil” (Genesis 49:27)?
The prophecy reads (KJV):
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. (Genesis 49:27)
What does this mean, and was it fulfilled?
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Why did Isaac’s wife did not like the Hettite women?
Why did Isaac’s wife did not like the Hettite women? Genesis 27:46
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Is God worried about Adam eating once or in an on-going pattern from the Tree of Life at Genesis 3:22?
At Genesis 3:22, God says
"And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of
life, and eat, and live forever ..."
This sounds like a one-and-done - Adam eats once and ...
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Genesis 19:26 - Was Lot's wife really behind Lot?
26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (NIV)
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (KJV)
26 But Lot’s wife, from behind him, looked ...
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The birthright was Joseph’s?
“yet Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Joseph’s-
(1 Chronicles 5:2)
My understanding is the birthright goes to the firstborn of the first wife, ...
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The Tree in the Center of the Garden
Is there one or two trees in the midst of the garden of Eden?
Theory: The tree of life in the garden of Eden is one in the same as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
My proof of this is found ...
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What does it mean to take vengeance sevenfold in Genesis 4:15?
KJV Genesis 4 : 15
And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
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Are the Hebrew words for ‘woman’ and ‘make’ related?
In Genesis 2, God says:
“It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make [עָשָׂה ; strongs H6213: to fashion, bring forth, make or do] him a helper fit for him.””
Genesis 2:18 ESV
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Is Genesis 1:1-2 part of the first day?
What evidence is there, either for or against, the idea that Gen 1:1-2 are not part of the first day but rather that the first day starts with Gen 1:3?
The following information isn't strictly ...
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Is God's rest on the seventh day better understood as being with His works?
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. (Genesis 2:2 ESV)
ויכל אלהים ביום השביעי מלאכתו אשר עשה וישבת ביום ...
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How Gen 31:39 relates to Gen 43:9
In Hebrew, these two passages sharing the same idiom in a very unique similarity, and I would like to know what is the reason.
In Gen 31:39 speaks of Jacob who was very righteous in taking ...
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Genesis 22:19 - where is Isaac?
Genesis 22 describes the famous binding of Isaac narrative. During the beginning of the event, Abraham and Isaac’s ascent to the mountain is described:
“Early in the morning Abraham got up and ...
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How was Esau's wife named Judith?
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. (Genesis 26:34)
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Was the Garden of Eden planted "in the East" or "towards the East" in Genesis 2:8?
Genesis 2:8 NASB95
The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 2:8 ESV
And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, ...
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