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- Genesis 2:4 - 2:24
- Bible Atlas Map for this region
- Berean Study Notes : Entire Section : Ge 2:4 - 4:26
- All Translations and Cross References for each verse
- Interlinear Hebrew Bible for this Ge 2:1-15 and for Ge 2:16-25
- Interlinear Greek and Hebrew and Strong's for Genesis Chapter 2
- Strong's Interlinear for this Section (StudyLight.org)
- Current Jewish Bible for Genesis Chapter 2
- Septuagint Greek Translation of Genesis Chapter 2
- Lexicon Beginning At Genesis 2:4
- What does Josephus say about the Genesis account of Creation
In Genesis 1, God was at work creating. He took chaos, made it orderly, and placed HIS blessing on it. This is how God works in everything HE does: in our world, in our nation, in our lives, in our hearts.
This section details how man took the perfection God created and tainted it. No longer perfect, the Laws of Entropy begin and the world of order turns down the path of Chaos once again.
In the first chapter, God is called God. In this creation account, God was called Lord God.
Word Study - Lord - # 3068 - יהוה - yehôvâh
Jehovah = "the existing One"
Yahweh
Jehovah = "the existing One"
Yahweh
- the proper name of the one true God
- unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of 0136
- (plural)
- rulers, judges
- divine ones
- angels
- gods
- (plural intensive - singular meaning)
- god, goddess
- godlike one
- works or special possessions of God
- the (true) God
- God
The first several verses speak of how there was no tree or shrub or plant... whatever word was chosen. And the reason for this is that there had not been any rain on the earth yet, and no man to work the ground. It goes on to explain that instead a mist came up from the ground or a stream (depending on the translation) and this is what watered the ground. The Septuagint says it was a fountain. Both the Masoretic Text (MT) and the Samaritan Pentateuch (ST) call it a steam.
This section speaks of how God made man from dust and breathed the breathe of life into him.
It says HE "formed" us.. or fashioned us. It is so awesome that this word also means to pre-ordain, to have a plan for.
Word Study - formed - # 3335 - יָצַר - yâtsar
- to form, fashion, frame
- (Qal) to form, fashion
- (Pual) to be predetermined, be pre-ordained
Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
The dust that he formed us with is also called "ashes". This same dust is:
- We were made from the dust
- HE existed before the dust (Prov 8:26)
- The serpent eats dust: what the serpent is to eat all the days of his life when it was punished at the fall of man. (Ge 3:14, Isaiah 65:25
- We work the dust and return to the dust: When man sinned, God said he must work the ground and he will return to the dust from which he came. (Ge 3:19, Job 17:16, Job 34:15, Ps 22:15, Ps 104:29, Eccl 3:27, Eccl 12:7,
- We all will return from the dust: Dan 12:2,
- Dust symbolizes a great multitude: used when God speaks how HE will make Abraham and his descendants into a large nation (Ge 13:16, 28:14, Nu 23:10, 2 Chron 1:9,
- Dust symbolizes humility: an image of Abram's humility as he speaks before God. He says of himself "I am but dust and ashes" (Ge 18:27, Job 30:19, Ps 103:14
- Dust versus Water: When the Philistines stopped up Abram's wells, they filled them with dust of the earth. (Ge 26:15). Water is a symbol of life, earth here stopped up the Water. This is quite a contrast.
- In the same vein, a priest was to put dust from the floor into a vessel of holy water. (Numbers 5:17)
- For unclean people, the ashes of a burnt heifer was to be placed in water in a vessel (Nu 19:17)
- The Lord made the rain as powder and dust, therefore taking the blessing and making it a curse. (Duet 28:24)
- Dust as a Plaque: In the 10 plagues on Egypt, God made the dust of the earth into Lice. (Ex 8:16-17)
- In shame, the Israelites would put dust on their head (Josh 7:6, Job 2:12, Job 42:6, Lamentation 2:10, 3:29, Eze 27:30
- He lifts the poor from the dust and sets them on thrones (1 Sam 2:8, 1 Ki 16:2, Ps 113:7,
- False Idols buried into dust: When idols were made, they were burned and ground into dust and either taken out of the camp or dumped in a brook (Lev 14:45, Deut 9:21, 2 Sam 22:43, 2 Ki 13:7, 2 Ki 23:4, 6, 12, 15, Ps 18:42)
- Dust to cover Blood: The blood of fowl or beasts was to be dumped and covered with dust. (Lev 17:13, Eze 24:7
- Trash: This word is also translated Rubbish (Neh 4:2,10)
- Dust is the foundation for clay (Job 4:19, 10:9
- Job says that his Redeemer Lives and shall upon the earth, or the dust, in the latter day. (Job 19:25)
Word Study - dust - # 3335 - יָצַר - yâtsar
- dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish
After the discussion about creating man from the dust, there begins a discussion about a Garden that god planted.
- In the East - East of where the person writing the story lives at the time they are writing the story
- In Eden - which means it is only a part of Eden
- God caused every tree that is good to the sight and good for food to grow there
- in the midst of the garden, HE placed the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- River flow OUT OF EDEN to WATER THE GARDEN, then SPLIT INTO 4 RIVERS
River location materials Pishon
(Pison)Flows around the whole land of Havilah gold
bdellium (aromatic resin)
onyxGihon flows around the whole land of Cush - Tigris flows east of Assyria - Euphrates - -
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