Day 1 | Genesis 1-3

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Genesis 1-3 

Background - Sources of the Pentateuch

The authorship of Genesis is not confined to one person but a series of people and communities over hundreds of years beginning with the oral tradition around campfires to being written down after the monarchy and while in the Babylonian Exile after 586 b.c.

Chapter 1.1 - 11.26 tells of primeval history to the birth of Abraham.

Chapter 1.1 - 2.3 is the priestly account of Creation that is cosmic in scope with merely God speaking something and something is created. The poetic stanzas of Creation deals with:

  • Pre-creation - nothing but a void, darkness, wind, and the face of God
  • Day 1 - light and light and darkness are separated
  • Day 2 - God spares to bodies of water or what we understand as outer space and atmosphere
  • Day 3 - God separated the water and the land and planted everything on the land
  • Day 4 - God creates the stars, and Sole our Sun and the Moon
  • Day 5 - God creates from the waters a mass of living creatures both land and water and commanded them to reproduce to live on the entire earth.
  • Day 6 - God created all sorts of animals of every kind and created humankind in God's images and commanded to be fruitful and multiply.
  • Day 7 - God rested
Everything God created was good ...everything!

Chapter 2.4b - 25 from the Yahwistic tradition this second story of creation starts with God as a gardener. God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed in life. God planted Eden and placed man in it after naming the rivers surrounding Eden. God noticed that the man was lonely and created a helper as his partner - God created all animals and brought them before man to name - God creates woman from a rib of the man.

Chapter 3.1 - 24 describes the first sin and the punishment of it. God instructs one thing, a serpent another, man and woman does not believe God and disobeys; they gain knowledge of mortality and nakedness, and they were punished and driven from the garden and knowledge was guarded against them.

Sources: The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition; Biblegateway.com; HS+

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