Genesis
(Genesis 14:18-20)
Who was Melchizedek? When Abraham returned from his
victorious battle with the five kings,
having rescued Lot, we find Melchizedek going out to meet
him.
"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine:
and he was the priest of
the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be
Abram of the most high God...
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(Genesis 5:21-24)
Enoch’s life pleased God because he walked with God in
faith. "And Enoch walked with God:
and he was not; for God took him" (Genesis 5:24). "By faith
Enoch was translated that he
should not see death; and was not found, because God had
translated him: for before his
translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God"
(Hebr...
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(Genesis 4)
Abel’s offering was an expression of his faith in God’s
Word. "And Abel, he also brought of
the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof" (Genesis
4:4). "By faith Abel offered unto
God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain" (Hebrews 11:4).
Abel’s faith must have been based
upon a divine instruction given to Adam and Eve an...
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Quick Survey of Genesis. – –1-2 – –The creation of the
universe, the world, all living things, and man. The
conditions of man in paradise. – –3 – –The original sin of
Adam and Eve, and God casting them out of paradise. – –4-5 –
– The history of Adam and his descendents all the way to the
time of Noah and the flood. – –6-7 – – The exceeding
wi...
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Genesis is the title given to the first book of the Pentateuch by its Greek translators. The word means "origin" or "beginning"; truly, Genesis is a book of beginnings. It describes the beginning of man and the universe which he inhabits, the beginning of sin, the consequent beginning of an effort at redemption, and the beginning of the Hebrew nati...
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The Book of Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, "birth", "origin," from
Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bereishit, "in the beginning")[1] is the
first book of the Hebrew Bible, the first of five books of
the Torah, which are called the Pentateuch in the Christian
Old Testament.
Genesis contains some of the best known biblical stories,
including the Hebrew account o...
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III. The Structure of the Individual Pericopes.
In this division of the article, there is always to be found
(under 1) a consideration of the unity of the Biblical text
and (under 2) the rejection of the customary division into
different sources.
The conviction of the unity of the text of Genesis and of
the impossibility of dividing it ac...
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The Hebrew name is Bereeshit, from its opening word "in the
beginning." Septuagint Genesis means generation, i.e.
creation and birth of the universe, man, and history. It is
a religious history, therefore it omits accounts in detail
of other nations, and concentrates attention on the origin
of that one from whom the promised Redeemer of man fr...
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The five books of Moses were collectively called the
Pentateuch,
a word of Greek origin meaning "the five-fold book."
The Jews
called them the Torah, i.e., "the law." It is
probable that the
division of the Torah into five books proceeded from
the Greek
translators of the Old Testament. The names by which
these
several books are generally...
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(origin), the first book of the law or Pentateuch, so
called from its title ia the Septuagint, that is, Creation.
Its author was Moses. The date of writing was probably
during the forty-years wanderings in the wilderness, B.C.
1491-1451. Time. --The book of Genesis covered 2369 years,--
from the creation of Adam, A.M 1, to the death of Joseph, ...
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