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No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
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Creation vs. Cultivation
Commentators explain that this verse distinguishes between God's initial, direct creation of plants and their subsequent natural growth. The first plants were made supernaturally by God's command, without the need for rain or human labor. This highlights that God can work both through direct, miraculous acts and through the natural processes He established to sustain the world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
תולדות tôledôt “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the chi…
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
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
And every plant. This verse is connected with the preceding and must be read in continuation with it, for he connects the plants and herbs…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, &c.] That is, God made it, even he who made the heavens and the…
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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