Genesis one

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hornetguy

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I guess I just thought it was a simple question.....
 

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I guess I just thought it was a simple question.....
- When you look at Genesis chapter 1:1, you see a programme!
- A "day" corresponds to certain elements to be created!
- When they are created, the "day" ends"!
 

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- When you look at Genesis chapter 1:1, you see a programme!
- A "day" corresponds to certain elements to be created!
- When they are created, the "day" ends"!
So, your belief is that the whole "evening and morning" statement for each day was figurative?
 

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So, your belief is that the whole "evening and morning" statement for each day was figurative?
- In fact, we are only told about part of the creation!
- When you think about all the universe, a lot more was to be done!
- After each period of creation, you get the same expression!

Remember:
  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!


- Now let's have a look at what wikipedia says about the hebrew word yom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"


Biblical Hebrew has a limited vocabulary, with fewer words compared to other languages, such as English or Spanish.[1][a] This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.[9] Strong's Lexicon yom is Hebrew #3117 יוֹם [10] The word Yom's root meaning is to be hot as the warm hours of a day.
Thus "yom", in its context, is sometimes translated as: "time" (Gen 4:3, Is. 30:8); "year" (I Kings 1:1, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Amos 4:4); "age" (Gen 18:11, 24:1 and 47:28; Joshua 23:1 and 23:2); "always" (Deuteronomy 5:29, 6:24 and 14:23, and in 2 Chronicles 18:7); "season" (Genesis 40:4, Joshua 24:7, 2 Chronicles 15:3); epoch or 24-hour day (Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31) – see "Creationism", below.
Yom relates to the concept of time. Yom is not just for day, days, but for time in general. How yom is translated depends on the context of its use with other words in the sentence around it, using hermeneutics.[11]
The word day is used somewhat the same way in the English language, examples: "In my grandfather's day, cars did not go very fast" or "In the day of the dinosaurs there were not many mammals."
The word Yom is used in the name of various Jewish feast days; as, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; Yom teruah (lit., day of shouting) the Feast of Trumpets.[12]
Yom is also used in each of the days of the week in the Hebrew calendar.
See also
Creationism
Geology
Notes
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words.[2][3] For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words,[4][5] and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words,[6] whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.[7][8]
 

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Interesting....
This fits in with what I've been tossing around in my mind for the past year or so....
I have, of late, tried to fit in the seeming discrepancy between Gen 1 and Gen 2, as to the creation of man and woman, who He told to go forth into the world and subdue it, etc.... versus the Gen 2 account of the creation of Adam (son of God), then Eve.

In a nutshell, I think that God created "mankind" on the 6th day.... telling them to have dominion over all the animals on the earth and all the fish in the sea. Where was the "sea" in the garden? Adam and Eve were meant to live in the garden, until they disobeyed God.

So, "mankind" was already on the earth before Adam and Eve were created. How long a time passed between those events? Could have been a million years, for all we know.

When Cain was driven away, he stated that "whoever finds me will kill me..." who would have that been, if he and Abel were the first two naturally born humans on earth? Who did Cain marry?

I think that starting with Gen 2, it is the story of the "chosen" ones of God, and the Bible is the history of those people....

Why was it necessary in Luke's mind to trace Jesus' lineage all the way back to Adam? If all men on earth were descendants of Adam, would that not be assumed?

Just some thoughts.... maybe the seeming discrepancy is NOT in the word, but in our understanding of it?
 

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Remember:
  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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  • In Chapter 23, Saul knows that David is in Keilah!
  • And he thinks that Yah.weh has handed him over to him because he has trapped himself in the city!
  • How is it possible to think that way?
  • Yah.weh has rejected him!
  • David has always escaped his attempts to kill him!
  • People always make a film in their heads!
  • But if you don’t make Yah.weh’s will, you can forget it!
  • Same with mankind!
  • On the contrary, David asks Yah.weh what the leaders of Keilah will do and if Saul will come against him!
  • And Yah.weh tells him what’s going to happen!
  • So David leaves the city with his men and escapes!
  • Finally, Saul hears about David's escape so he doesn’t come against him!
  • Two completely different attitudes!
  • We should remember this episode!
 

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Genesis 1

Day one :

- Light
- A division between light and darkness


Day two :

- A division between the waters (beneath the expanse) and the waters (above the expanse)

Day three :

- A division between the seas and the dry land earth
- Grass and seed-bearing plants and trees yielding fruit along with seed on the earth


Day four :

- The greater luminary to dominate the day
- The lesser luminary to dominate the night
- The stars


Day five :

- The sea creatures
- The flying creatures


Day six :

- Domestic animals
- creeping animals
- Wild animals
- Man (male and female)
- Man must have in subjection all the animals
- Green vegetation for food
You skipped the first verse.
 

JLG

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You skipped the first verse.
- You can say that!
- Or if you may see that it has nothing to do with the six days of creation!
- It doesn't belong to the programme for the earth!
- it has no details!
 

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Interesting....
This fits in with what I've been tossing around in my mind for the past year or so....
I have, of late, tried to fit in the seeming discrepancy between Gen 1 and Gen 2, as to the creation of man and woman, who He told to go forth into the world and subdue it, etc.... versus the Gen 2 account of the creation of Adam (son of God), then Eve.

In a nutshell, I think that God created "mankind" on the 6th day.... telling them to have dominion over all the animals on the earth and all the fish in the sea. Where was the "sea" in the garden? Adam and Eve were meant to live in the garden, until they disobeyed God.

So, "mankind" was already on the earth before Adam and Eve were created. How long a time passed between those events? Could have been a million years, for all we know.

When Cain was driven away, he stated that "whoever finds me will kill me..." who would have that been, if he and Abel were the first two naturally born humans on earth? Who did Cain marry?

I think that starting with Gen 2, it is the story of the "chosen" ones of God, and the Bible is the history of those people....

Why was it necessary in Luke's mind to trace Jesus' lineage all the way back to Adam? If all men on earth were descendants of Adam, would that not be assumed?

Just some thoughts.... maybe the seeming discrepancy is NOT in the word, but in our understanding of it?
- First, according to Genesis 1:28 man was supposed to fill the earth!
- The garden of Eden was just a beginning!
- The purpose of Yah.weh has not changed!
 

JLG

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Interesting....
This fits in with what I've been tossing around in my mind for the past year or so....
I have, of late, tried to fit in the seeming discrepancy between Gen 1 and Gen 2, as to the creation of man and woman, who He told to go forth into the world and subdue it, etc.... versus the Gen 2 account of the creation of Adam (son of God), then Eve.

In a nutshell, I think that God created "mankind" on the 6th day.... telling them to have dominion over all the animals on the earth and all the fish in the sea. Where was the "sea" in the garden? Adam and Eve were meant to live in the garden, until they disobeyed God.

So, "mankind" was already on the earth before Adam and Eve were created. How long a time passed between those events? Could have been a million years, for all we know.

When Cain was driven away, he stated that "whoever finds me will kill me..." who would have that been, if he and Abel were the first two naturally born humans on earth? Who did Cain marry?

I think that starting with Gen 2, it is the story of the "chosen" ones of God, and the Bible is the history of those people....

Why was it necessary in Luke's mind to trace Jesus' lineage all the way back to Adam? If all men on earth were descendants of Adam, would that not be assumed?

Just some thoughts.... maybe the seeming discrepancy is NOT in the word, but in our understanding of it?
- According to Genesis 3:20, Adam named his wife Eve because she was to become the mother of everyone living!
 

JLG

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Interesting....
This fits in with what I've been tossing around in my mind for the past year or so....
I have, of late, tried to fit in the seeming discrepancy between Gen 1 and Gen 2, as to the creation of man and woman, who He told to go forth into the world and subdue it, etc.... versus the Gen 2 account of the creation of Adam (son of God), then Eve.

In a nutshell, I think that God created "mankind" on the 6th day.... telling them to have dominion over all the animals on the earth and all the fish in the sea. Where was the "sea" in the garden? Adam and Eve were meant to live in the garden, until they disobeyed God.

So, "mankind" was already on the earth before Adam and Eve were created. How long a time passed between those events? Could have been a million years, for all we know.

When Cain was driven away, he stated that "whoever finds me will kill me..." who would have that been, if he and Abel were the first two naturally born humans on earth? Who did Cain marry?

I think that starting with Gen 2, it is the story of the "chosen" ones of God, and the Bible is the history of those people....

Why was it necessary in Luke's mind to trace Jesus' lineage all the way back to Adam? If all men on earth were descendants of Adam, would that not be assumed?

Just some thoughts.... maybe the seeming discrepancy is NOT in the word, but in our understanding of it?
- We are only told what is necessary!
- In Genesis chapter 5, we are not told about Cain and Abel!
- Only Seth!
 

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__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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  • In Chapter 23, David keeps hiding in the wilderness!
  • Saul keeps searching for him!
  • But Yah.weh doesn’t give him into his hands!
  • Jonathan goes to meet David at Horesh and encourages him!
  • He tells him he will be king of Israel!
  • Then they make a covenant before Yah.weh!
  • Some men come to Saul and tell him where David is!
  • And he asks them to find out exactly where he is!
  • Then he will go with them!
  • Then Saul chases after David!
  • He gets pretty close to David!
  • Then a messenger comes to Saul to tell him that the philistines have made a raid on the land!
 

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Someone says :

The children of Ham, Shem and Japheth married many of their very own sisters.

Incest was God’s original plan of marriage but eventually the genetic code became corrupted and then that plan was modified to a distant relative marriage system. But for Polygamy / Plural wives marriage, this was never modified or changed by God, Only that a man is forbidden from marrying multiple women who are closely related, not from marrying multiple women - the commandment that stipulates that a man is forbidden to marry multiple wives is what simply is missing from the entire Bible - even stipulating that if a man is GOING TO HAVE multiple wives then he cannot marry closely related women, not stipulating that he is forbidden from polygamy.

But we are supposed to pretend and wish and imagine and play the narrative that God frowns and winks and scowls and - flashes hints and blurry cue cards and vague suggestions and fuzzy negative _ tip – offs _ about it - this is what t
he Translators impose and inject into the translations as they completely modify and change the passages from what the original says.

The original Hebrew word was - לצרר - tsârar - not generally used in a negative situation as ””
Lev 18:18 - The original manuscripts “”


ואשׁה And a woman - אל־אחתה with her sister - לא do not - תקח take -
לצרר tsârar them ( sisters ) gathered / them bundled( in marriage )


Other related forms of the “”” same exactly word “ that are not third personal pronouns are…..

Hos 4:19 The wind hath “ tsârar צָרַר and gathered / bundled bound “ her up in her wings,

Pro 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven……….. who hath “ tsârar צָרַר and gathered / bundled bound “ the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

1Sa 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be “ tsârar צָרַר and gathered / bundled bound “ in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God;

Jos 9:4 They did work …………… and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and “ tsârar צָרַר and gathered / bundled bound “ up;

This Hebrew word also has many meaning in how the word is applied to the situation, it can be both very good or very bad…….. - it means to gather or bind or crowd together, - this word also can be used in a VERY, VERY negative situation.

Another related word
2Ki 5:23 And Naaman ........ urged him, and “ צוּר tsûr gathered / bundled bound two talents of silver in two bags.​


Another related word is אָסַר - bonding / gathering / tying together - 'âsar - aw-sar'
Meaning ; to yoke or hitch; by analogy to fasten join - bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, set in array, tie. - this word also can be used in a VERY, VERY negative situation

Num 30:11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every “ אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ wherewith she
אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ her soul shall stand.

Num 30:8 ……….. he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she “ אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

Num 30:7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she “ אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ her soul shall stand.

Num 30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound “ אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ her soul;

Exo 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being “ אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Gen 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost “ אָסַר - bond / gather / tie - aw-sar' “ of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph,

We notice here in the Translation that even here in - 1Sa 1: 6 - 7 the passage is again mistranslated Elkanah ...... had two wives - named Hannah and Peninnah: Peninnah had multiple children, - but Hannah had no children. the LORD had shut up her womb.

:6....... And HER adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
:7....... so SHE { HER adversary } provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
The translators again, alter, modify and change and manipulate and add a narrative to this passage.

This Hebrew word צרתה = anguishes, - afflictions - distressis used “ 73 total times- in the entire Manuscripts, and one single time - and one time only - the translators change this word into “ ADVERSARY “ the 72 other times they translate this word always as “ anguishes, troubled, afflictions, and distress. “

They needed his polygamous wife Hannah to have a horrible evil enemy and tormenter, another second wife who was her “ Her ADVERSARY,, Her Opponent,, Her Challenger,, Her Antagonist,, Her Rival and Her Persecutor “


:6 וכעסתה Her anger - צרתה = anguishes, - afflictions - distress-
גם־כעס also grief / sorrow - בעבור because - הרעמה she troubled -
כי־סגר since that shut - יהוה Jehovah / Yahwhea -
בעד for - רחמה׃ her whomb

6....... And HER adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb

:7 וכן And so - יעשׂה she did - שׁנה year - בשׁנה by year - מדי - too much -
עלתה rise up - בבית in the house - יהוה of Jehovah / Yahwhea
- כן
so - תכעסנה grievious sorrow - ותבכה weeping -
ולא and not - תאכל׃ did eat

:7....... so SHE { HER adversary } provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
Again, the Translators invent and insert an imaginary boogie - woman in the background who is the other wife of the husband by altering and completely changing the passage. This is supposed to be based on the pretext and alleged reason of the reader suspecting that Hannah was being antagonized, tormented and persecuted because another woman / wife and her children { HER adversary } had received more possessions and property than Hannah had received. Hannah is filled with jealousy, hatred, anger, rage and bitterness / resentment : that she is enraged and infuriated to the point of starving herself to death because her husband is an evil polygamous who only cares about his other wife

Notice

1Sa 1:4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

:5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
But we find that her husband loved her and has a loving relationship and has sexual intercourse with her after the prophecy and she conceives shortly thereafter

1Sa 1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD. :27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of.

We find that in order for Hannah to become God’s special lightening rod or Gods extension cord she did not have to demand that polygamy was evil and wicked and demand that her polygamous husband leave his other wife, Hannah goes home continuing to live a happy live in the Lord - a life of a polygamous Godly wife who bears a son who is the Prophet Of God Samuel, born out of polygamous Godly marriage.
 

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My answer :



1)

- First of all, you should read again Genesis chapter 2 !

- Especially the verse 20 :

But for Adam
וּלְאָדָ֕ם (ū·lə·’ā·ḏām)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

no
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

suitable
כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ׃ (kə·neḡ·dōw)
Preposition-k | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

helper
עֵ֖זֶר (‘ê·zer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5828: A help, helper

was found.
מָצָ֥א (mā·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present



- We are told about a suitable helper, not 2 or 3 or more !
 

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2)

- Verse 24 :



For
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

this reason
כֵּן֙ (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

a man
אִ֔ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

will leave
יַֽעֲזָב־ (ya·‘ă·zāḇ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

his father
אָבִ֖יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

his mother
אִמּ֑וֹ (’im·mōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

and
וְהָי֖וּ (wə·hā·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

be united
וְדָבַ֣ק (wə·ḏā·ḇaq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1692: To impinge, cling, adhere, to catch by pursuit

to his wife,
בְּאִשְׁתּ֔וֹ (bə·’iš·tōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and they will become one
אֶחָֽד׃ (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

flesh.
לְבָשָׂ֥ר (lə·ḇā·śār)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man



- We are told about one man and one woman !

- And this man and this woman will become one flesh !

- Thus 2 become 1 !

- It is a commandment from Yah.weh !

- Simple and easy to understand !

- And guess what : Adam rebelled against Yah.weh !

- But he had only one wife !

- And guess what : Cain rebelled against Yah.weh but the Bible speaks about his wife !

- So Cain, Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methushael, Lamech !

- And the bible says Lamech took two wives !

- Then Adam and Eve got Seth and Seth Enosh !

- And in chapter 4:26 :



At that time
אָ֣ז (’āz)
Adverb
Strong's 227: At that time, place, therefore

[men] began
הוּחַ֔ל (hū·ḥal)
Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

to call upon
לִקְרֹ֖א (liq·rō)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

the name
בְּשֵׁ֥ם (bə·šêm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

of the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel



- Thus all at once men went away from Yah.weh !

And here again Yah.weh was called upon by men !
 

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- Then you get Genesis chapter 5 and the book of Adam’s history !

- And guess what : nowhere we are told about men having different wives !

- We are only told about Lamech !

- It doesn’t mean men had only one wife !

- But it cleary shows that Yah.weh’s commandment is one man and one woman !
 

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- Then we arrive at chapter 6 !

- And guess what : the angels who rebelled Yah.weh descended on earth and got as many wives as they wanted !

- And guess what : Yah.weh decided to destroy human society !

- And guess what : Noah and his sons and their wives were saved !

- And guess what : each one had only one wife !

- then we are told about Abraham and Lot !

- And guess what : they had only one wife !

- Then Sarah gave her servant to Abraham so he could have a child and a descendant !

- Then Agar got a boy !

- And guess what :

- look at Genesis 16:4 :

But when [Hagar] realized
וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ (wat·tê·re)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

she was pregnant,
הָרָ֔תָה (hā·rā·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2029: To conceive, become pregnant

she began to despise
וַתֵּקַ֥ל (wat·tê·qal)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling

her mistress.
גְּבִרְתָּ֖הּ (gə·ḇir·tāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular



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