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,
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Gill's Exposition
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth, when they were created,.... That is, the above account, delivered in the preceding chapter, is a history of the production of the heavens and…
Adam Clarke
In the day that the Lord God made, etc. - The word יהוה Yehovah is for the first time mentioned here. What it signifies see the note on Exo 34:5, Exo 34:6. Wherever this word occurs in the sacred…
In these verses, I. Here is a name given to the Creator which we have not yet met with, and that is Jehovah - the LORD, in capital letters, which are constantly used in our English translation to…
The Creation of Man
4. in the day that There is no allusion here to the Days of Creation. It is simply the vivid Hebrew idiom for "at the time when."
the Lord God The Hebrew words "Jahveh Elohim" are…
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