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The History of Creation

1 In the abeginning bGod created the heavens and the earth.  
2 The earth was awithout form, and void; and darkness1 was on the face of the deep. bAnd the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.  
3 aThen God said, b“Let there be clight”; and there was light.  
4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light Day, and the adarkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.  
6 Then God said, a“Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”  
7 Thus God made the firmament, aand divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were babove the firmament; and it was so.  
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 Then God said, a“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and blet the dry land appear”; and it was so.  
10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth abring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the bfruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.  
12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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Genesis

GENESIS, the book of the origin or production of all things, consists of two parts: the first, comprehended in the first through eleventh chapters, gives a general history; the second, contained in the subsequent chapters, gives a special history. The two parts are essentially connected; the one, which sets out with an account of the descent of the human race from a single pair, the introduction of sin into the world, and the announcement of the scheme of divine mercy for repairing the ruins of the fall, was necessary to pave the way for relating the other, namely, the call of Abraham, and the selection of his posterity for carrying out the gracious purpose of God. An evident unity of method, therefore, pervades this book, and the information contained in it was of the greatest importance to the Hebrew people, as without it they could not have understood the frequent references made in their law to the purposes and promises of God regarding themselves. The arguments that have been already adduced as establishing the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch prove of course that Moses was the author of Genesis. The few passages on which the rationalists grounded their assertions that it was the composition of a later age have been successfully shown to warrant no such conclusion; the use of Egyptian words and the minute acquaintance with Egyptian life and manners, displayed in the history of Joseph, harmonize with the education of Moses, and whether he received his information by immediate revelation, from tradition, or from written documents, it comes to us as the authentic work of an author who wrote as he was inspired by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21).

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