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but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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God's Natural Process
Commentators explain that the 'mist' was not a one-time miracle but the beginning of the natural water cycle. Vapor rose from the earth, formed clouds, and then provided rain. This shows God establishing the ordinary, lawful processes that still sustain the world today, demonstrating His wisdom in creation.
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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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But there went up a mist from the earth After the waters had been drained off from it, and it was warmed by the body…
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…
