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This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
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The LORD God Revealed
This verse introduces God's personal name, 'Jehovah' (translated 'LORD' in all caps), alongside 'Elohim' (God). Commentators explain this is significant. 'Elohim' refers to God's transcendent power as Creator, while 'Jehovah' reveals His personal, relational, and covenant-keeping nature. The same God who created the universe is the one who personally engages with humanity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
תולדות tôledôt “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the chi…
19th Century
Anglican
When they were created. —Hebrew, in, or upon, their creation.
In the day. —Viewed in its …
Baptist
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he res…
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16th Century
Protestant
These are the generations. Moses's design was to impress deeply upon our minds the origin of the heaven and the earth, which he d…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
These [are] the generations of the heavens and the earth, when they were created That…
Here is a name given to the Creator, —Jehovah.— When the word —LORD' is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original it is —Je…
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