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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Genesis 28:3 a congregation of peoples
The phrase 'Company of Peoples' in Genesis 28:3 is similar to the Greek word in the NT for congregation. I think Genesis 28:3 refers to nations of people, but since it is similar to ekklesia, is it ...
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Can σπέρματος in Gen 3:15 be used in the figurative sense?
According to Gottingen's eclectic edition of the LXX, Genesis 3:15 in the English translation says,
"I will place enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed
and her seed; he will ...
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What is the image of God in Genesis? [duplicate]
In the Genesis accounts of creation, God executes a plan he has had to create man in his image and give him authority over the earth.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after ...
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Was Eliphaz in Genesis related to Eliphaz in Job?
Genesis 36:10-11:
These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and ...
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When God says in Genesis 1.3,"Let there be light," is he creating light? or commanding that light be created?
From the revised Oxford edition, Genesis 1.3:
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
It does sound more like God is commanding that something be done, not that he himself is doing ...
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Why did Jacob say that seeing Esau's face was like seeing the face of God?
From Genesis 33:8-12 (NIV):
Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?” "To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said. But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my ...
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Was the New Jerusalem created in the beginning?
Did God create this city alongside the world in the beginning because after God created everything in the heaven and on earth, he entered his rest which means he ceased works of creation.
Genesis 2:1-...
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Did Esau ever “break Jacob's yoke from his neck”? (Genesis 27:40)
Scripture says in Genesis 27:40 NKJV that Isaac said to Esau,
40 By your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; And
it shall come to pass, when you become restless, That you shall ...
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Is there a specific meaning in KJV Genesis 1:1-5 on how it is presented in the Biblehub?
From this link
When I read the quote presented like above, my own conclusion :
Verse 1 and 2, The Beginning ---> is not the first day yet.
Once after the Light created The First Day: Light, then ...
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Genesis 3:21, how it seems everybody agree that the "skin" is an animal skin which is killed by God?
Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and
his wife, and He clothed them.
Quote from "What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?":
The first death of an animal occurred ...
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What is the open square? (Genesis 19:2)
Genesis 19 NKJV records:
Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was
sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them,
and he bowed himself with his face toward ...
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Why does St Paul attribute humility to incarnation of Son of God in human likeness, given the glorification of human form in Gen 1?
We read in Gen 1:26-28 how man was made in God's likeness and image. We also read in Phil 2:6-7 (NIV):
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his ...
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Why do Genesis 1 and 2 sequences of events and other details differ so widely?
In Genesis 1 the seed-plants are made first. Then birds, aquatic and marine creatures are summoned from the water. Beasts of the earth are called forth from the earth. Man is shaped (SHAPE(V): (ברא / ...
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A Firmament explanation
Can someone explain to me about the firmament. I know it is the heavens above but, that would mean no one could go beyond that. No outer space as we were taught in school. Correct!
Gen 1:6-8 - Then ...
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What is the etymology of “Israel”
Is “Israel” a three word hybrid of “Isis”, “Ra”, and “El”? If so, is Isis a representation of chaos and destruction and Ra representation of order and construction? In this case, does the name ...
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Why does Lamech speak of himself using the third person? (Genesis 4:23-24)
Genesis 4:23-24 NKJV
23 Then Lamech said to his wives:
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech!
For I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for hurting
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Why did God tell Lot not to look back? (Genesis 19:17)
Genesis 19:15-17 NKJV
15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying,
“Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you
be consumed in the punishment of the city....
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Why did Jacob want to not be buried in Egypt?
In Genesis, Jacob (or Israel) asked Joseph to not bury him in Egypt.
Genesis 47:29
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son
Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found ...
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Image and Likeness of God?
Genesis 1:26 tells us what God wanted to do: "let us make man in our image and likeness". However in Genesis 1:27 man is only made in the image of God. But in Genesis 5:1 we are told that ...
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What are the waters waiting for?
Genesis 1:9 And God said:
let the waters be gathered together under the heavens in one place and
let dry land be seen.
The Hebrew word for 'gathered together' is qavah which means to wait, its ...
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Why is the sin of Sodom in Genesis 18: 21 in singular 'sin', not 'sins'?
Genesis 18:20-21 please help me answer this question if you can .thank you
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down ...
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How should Genesis 3:20 be rendered?
Should it be “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she WAS the mother of all living”? Or should it be “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she WOULD BECOME the mother of all living”?
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Why is "was" inserted into English translations of Genesis 2:9?
Almost all the English translations of Genesis 2:9 make a break between the trees for food and the other two trees, often inserting "was." Compare the translations from KJV and NKJV, which ...
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Was the flood a result of the same curse that God told to Adam?
Genesis 3:17 New King James Version
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your
wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying,
‘You shall not eat of it’:
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Explain Ezekiel 31:18 that implies that the trees of Eden went down to the world of the dead
In Ezekiel 31:18 Explain how and why the trees of Eden went down to the world of the dead.
(NASB) “To which among the trees of Eden are you so alike in glory and
greatness? Yet you will be brought ...
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Is the Death penalty really justice? [closed]
In Genesis 9 God makes a covenant with Noah. Part of that covenant focuses on murder 9:6. What is curious to me is why enforce the penalty of murder with the death penalty when Cain was essentially ...
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Was Laban a younger or older brother of Rebekah? (Gen. 29:24)
Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban
Is there any concrete evidence in the Scripture that shows Laban was either younger or older than his sister Rebekah? Genesis 24:29 and some others don’t ...
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What is the significance of the LXX going back and forth between God and Lord God in Genesis 2:4-24?
The LXX uses both God and Lord God in Genesis 2.
LXX-Genesis 2 (NETS)
4 This is the book of the origin of heaven and earth, when it originated, on the day that God made the sky and the earth 5 and ...
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Knowing good before eating the fruit containing the Knowledge of Good and evil?
Question on Genesis 3:6- I'm trying to discern the correct interpretation of this verse; as we see, Eve saw that the fruit was good before she even ate the fruit that stemmed from the Tree of ...
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Why is ‘woman’ pluralized in Genesis 3?
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 15, and 16 of Genesis 3 have “the women” הָאִשָּׁ֣ה as one of the characters included in the conversation.
Both the serpent and YHWH address the women, the women reply, ...
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How do we know what "animal" words are referring to in Hebrew?
Other than context, is there any way to determine what animals words like מִקְנֶה and בְּהֵמָה are referring to? (For example, are the meanings of these words given in dictionaries like BDB ...
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What is the significance and customs of the "7 days" of mourning? (Genesis 50:10)
Scripture says in Genesis 50:10-11
10 Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the
Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn
lamentation. He observed seven ...
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Nudity and Lack of Shame in Gen 2:25
Gen 2:25 - And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not
ashamed.
Can I ask you to point me to a book or article where I can find a summary of the most important views on the issue of ...
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What is meant by saying that the earth was formless?
We read in Gen 1:1-2:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over ...
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What is the Biblical difference between a cistern and a well?
I'll just use one example where the word is translated different ways:
Genesis 37:24 — The New International Version (NIV) 24 and they took
him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; ...
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How should the phrase "God remembered" be interpreted?
I've read this phrase before in Genesis 8:1 NKJV where it says:
8 Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and
all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to
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Why do animals die? [closed]
So humans die as punishment due to Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit.
But why do animals die?
I assume animals were created to be immortal originally as Adam was naming them in the Garden of ...
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Why didn't God return to the dust to create woman?
I've wondered this for quite a while.
In Genesis 2:7 NKJV we read:
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 ...
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Why did the Egyptians mourn Jacob for 70 days? (Genesis 50:3)
This chapter brought up many questions for me. It reads in Genesis 50:3 NKJV, after Jacob breathed his last.:
3 Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for
those who are ...
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Why did Jacob claim Joseph's two sons? (Genesis 48:5)
We read in Genesis 48:5 NKJV
5 And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you
in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as
Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine....
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Was Rachel buried in the same place Jesus was born?
In Genesis 35:19 NKJV we read:
19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is,
Bethlehem).
Are these different places or is this the same place Jesus was born?
Matthew 2:1 NKJV:
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Why did Jesus descend from Judah not another son?
We read in Hebrews 7:14 NKJV
14 For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of
which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
Matthew 1 also records the lineage from Abraham to Jesus ...
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Who are the other people that Cain feared and Lamech killed
I have read answers to the question who did Cain fear could kill him. The typical answer is Adam and Eve must have had more children. Then it list the descendants of Cain. If Lamech killed “a man” (23)...
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Why did Tamar sleep with her father-in-law? (Genesis 38:13-18)
It says in Genesis 38:13-18 NKJV
13 And it was told Tamar, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going
up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” 14 So she took off her widow’s
garments, covered herself with a ...
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What is the meaning of "wə-han" in Genesis 24:16
In Genesis 24:16 Rebekah is called "wə-han-na-‘ă-rā" or וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗.
I know the meaning of na-‘ă-rā is maiden but i was unable to find the significance of wə-han and what that modifier (...
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When Genesis 1:1 says God created heavens... So what exactly comes in heavens. Sky,space and where God is. All this God created at that time.?
Genesis 1:1 says
God created the heavens and the earth.
So what comes in heavens (the sky, space and God's place) or the heaven of God where He is now .. that place was existed before creation.. ...
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Why did Jacob bow 7 times to Esau? (Genesis 33:3-4)
I know that in the Bible the number seven tends to have special meaning.
Genesis 33:3 NKJV says:
3 Then he crossed over before them and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to ...
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Does the phrase 'strike the heel' in Gen 3:15 have a deeper meaning?
We read in Gen 3:15 how God curses the serpent:
And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
A snake ...
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Why does Laban tell Jacob not to take any wives but his daughters? (Genesis 31:50)
Laban says in Genesis 31:50 NKJV
50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!
If I were to read ...
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Why did God tell Laban to be careful to speak to Jacob neither good nor bad? (Genesis 31:24)
Jacob fled from Laban. Laban then pursues Jacob; however, God speaks to Laban in a dream.
We read in Genesis 31:24 NKJV
24 But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by
night, and said to him, “...
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