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- †. Gen 3:17a . .To Adam He said: Because you did as your wife said, and ate of the tree about which I commanded you; "You shall not eat of it" A portion of God's gripe with Adam was that he put a creature's wishes over and above His own; thus making one of the things that God created a...

- †. Gen 3:15a . . I will put enmity between you and the woman, I don't think the kind of enmity that God spoke of was the kind where friends fall out of harmony; but rather, He decreed a sort of poetic justice; viz: "You caused her downfall; and now I'm going to make it so that she causes...

- †. Gen 3:14c . . On your belly shall you crawl and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life. Ancient Jews thought maybe the Serpent was originally equipped with feet. T. Upon thy belly thou shalt go, and thy feet shall be cut off, and thy skin thou shalt cast away once in seven years...

- †. Gen 3:12 . .The man said: The woman You put at my side-- she gave me of the tree, and I ate. Adam's defense actually insinuates that God set him up to take a fall. Like: "This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't imposed that female upon me. Did I ask for a wife? NO! And what kind of...

- †. Gen 3:8a . . They heard the voice of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; The Hebrew word for "voice" is somewhat ambiguous. It can not only indicate a vocal sound, but lots of other kinds of noises too; e.g. blaring, crackling, snapping, cackling, bleating...

- †. Gen 3:7a . .Then the eyes of both of them were opened That statement implies that Eve's eyes weren't opened till after Adam tasted the fruit. In other words: up till Adam tasted the fruit, Eve was immune to its effects. †. Gen 3:7b . . and they perceived that they were naked; Shazaam...

- †. Gen 3:5b . . who know good from evil. Why anybody in Eve's circumstances would have the slightest interest in knowing good from evil defies reason. I mean, in her circumstances, in the garden of Eden; who would even have a use for that kind of information? But we all know that's about...

- †. Gen 3:5a . . but God knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like divine beings The Hebrew word for "divine beings" is 'elohiym (el-o-heem') which is the very same word describing man's creator in Gen 1:1. If someone presented you with an opportunity...

- †. Gen 3:1b . . He said to the woman, A characteristic of Eden's world was not only a lack of human death, but also a lack of fear. Man feared neither himself, nor the other creatures, nor the dark, nor the boogie man. The woman displayed no recorded astonishment whatsoever when the Serpent...

- †. Gen 3:1a . . Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. Probably no other creature in the Bible provokes so much skepticism as the Serpent. It just smacks of mythology. But this particular serpent was no ordinary reptile. It was indeed a...

- †. Gen 2:23b . .This one shall be called Woman, for from Man was she taken. The Hebrew word for "woman" is from 'ishshah (ish-shaw') which is the feminine form of 'iysh (eesh) which means a human being as an individual or as a male person. So 'ishshah doesn't indicate another species of human...

- †. Gen 2:21a-22a . . So the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon the man; and, while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that spot. And the Lord God fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man into a woman; The Hebrew word for "rib" is tsela' (tsay-law') and Gen...

- †. Gen 2:18 . .Yhvh God said: It's not good for Adam to be solitary; I will make a fitting helper for him. "a fitting helper" is from two Hebrew words. "Fitting" is from neged (neh' ghed) which means: a front, i.e. part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate. The word for "helper" is...

- The ban on the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, was tempered by a carte blanche to eat fruits from all the rest of the trees; including the tree of life. So it's not like God pigeonholed Adam and forced him to eat from the wrong tree in order to survive. Earlier, in Gen 1:29, God gave...

- †. Gen 2:15-17 . .The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for in the day you...

- †. Gen 2:10a . . A river issues from Eden to water the garden, The verb "issues" is in the present tense; indicating whoever wrote Gen 2:10, did so while the land of Eden yet existed. The authorship of Genesis has yet to be positively established. A verse like 2:10 strongly suggests that the...

- †. Gen 2:8a . .Yhvh God planted a garden in Eden, The remainder of Earth's flora was planted in a large scale, landscaping manner. But the garden was specially prepared for Man like someone might build a home for their family. It's true that Man is a creature and Yhvh isn't his actual...

- †. Gen 2:6 . . a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. The word "mist" is from 'ed (ade). It's a very rare word and appears only one more time in the whole Bible in the book of Job. "See, God is greater than we can know; the number of His years cannot be...

- †. Gen 2:1-2 . .The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done. Thrice it's stated in that passage that the creator finished His work and ceased...

- †. Gen 1:31 . . And God saw all that He had made, and found it very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Some feel that the cosmos-- all of its forms of life, matter, and energy --was created incomplete, not quite up to snuff: that it was to Man that God...