GENESIS - "CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN"

     I wrote this from the first Book of God's Word, Genesis, and the first six chapters of the book. I didn't include every verse in each chapter.  I shared the ones that I felt most important to my article. 
     
     In Genesis the First chapter, God tells us of his six day week of creation, and what he did on the seventh day, which was rested. (Some people say  creation wasn't done in a literal 6 day week. I believe creation was in God's time that He created the heaven and the earth.  I don't know of a scripture in God's Word that says if it was a literal week or not.  It's not important to know that.  The important fact is that God did created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:
     Verse 1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
     Verse 2 - the earth was without form, darkness upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. 
     Verse 3 - God said, Let there be light.
     Verse 4 - God divided the light from the darkness.
     Verse 5 - God called the light day, and the darkness night.  (verses one thru five was the first day of creation.)
     Verse 6 - God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, divide the waters from the waters.
     Verse 7 - God made the firmament and divided the waters above and below the firmament.
     Verse 8 - God called the firmament heaven.  (verses six thru eight was the second day.) 
     Verse 9 - God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry-land appear. 
     Verse 10 - God called the dry-land earth; and the gathering of the waters together, called he seas.
     Verse 11 - God said, Let the earth (dry-land) bring forth grass, herbs
yielding seed, fruit trees, yielding fruit. (Verses nine thru thirteen was the third day.) 
     Verse 14 - God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; for signs, seasons and for days and years.
     Verse 15 - Let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light 
upon the earth.
     Verse 16 - God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day;  the lesser light to rule the night; and He made the stars also.  
     Verse 17 - God set the lights in the heaven to give light upon the earth.
(verses fourteen thru nineteen was the fourth day.) 
     Verse 20 - God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving crea-ture that has life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firma-ment of heaven.
     Verse 21 - God created great whales. 
     Verse 22 - God blessed them, and God said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, let fowl multiply in the earth. (Verses 20 thru 23 was the fifth day.)
     Verse 24 - God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature, cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth.
     Verse 26 - Let us (who is God talking to?) make man in our image, after our likeness, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 
     Verse 27 - God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.  (So when God created man he created both male and female of humans?) 
     Verse 29 - God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed; to you it shall be for meat (food). 
     Verse 30 - To every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat (food).
     Verse 31 - In bible time the evening and the morning is one day.  The dark part of the day comes first.  God created many things on the last day of creation.  (Verses 24 thru 31 is the sixth day.) 

Genesis 2: 
     Verse 1 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
     Verse 2 -  On the seventh day God ended his work (creation) which he had made.
     Verse 3 - God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work, which God created and made. 
     Verse 4 - These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. 
     Verse 5 - God made every plant of the field before it was in the earth, 
and every herb of the field before it grew:  for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 
     Verse 6 - But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole earth. (God created all of the vegetation before He created man.)
     Verse 7 - And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
     God made Adam and then planted a garden eastward in Eden (the city); and there he put the man, whom he had formed. 
     Verses 8 thru 14 the Bible describes the garden. He tells all the planted there.
     Verse 15 - The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
     Verse 16 - God commanded that man could eat of every tree of the garden freely.
     Verse 17 - But of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest there of, Thou shalt surely die. 
     Verse 18 - God said, it wasn't good for man to be alone, I will make for him an helpmeet for him. 
     Verse 19 - Out of the ground the Lord God formed the beast of the field, every fowl of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them...(God made the birds, fish, animals etc. in pairs, but not man.)
     Verse 20 - ...but for Adam there was not found a helpmeet for him.  
     Verse 21 - The Lord God caused a sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept; and God took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh thereof (the first surgery).
     Verse 22 - And the rib he took from Adam, God made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.  
     Verse 23 - Adam said, she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

Genesis 3: 
     Verse 1 - The serpent was more subtitle than any other beast of the field, which the Lord God had made.  (Did God create the serpent?)  The serpent asked the woman, Yea, has God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (where did the serpent come from?)  
     Verse 2 - and the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit 
of of the trees of the garden: 
     Verse 3 - But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 
     Verse 4 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; 
     Verse 5 - For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 
     Verse 6 - And when the woman saw eating of the forbidden fruit was good, she gave it to her husband and he ate also. 
     Verse 7 - Their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked.             Verse 8 - They heard God walking in the garden. Adam and his wife hid from God amongst the trees of the garden.
     Verse 9 - And the Lord God called unto Adam, Where art thou?  
     Verse 10 - Adam said to God, I heard your voice and was afraid because I was naked.
     Verse 11 - God asked Adam, Who told thee that thou was naked?  Have you eaten of the tree, where of I commanded that thou shouldn't eat of?
     Verse 12 - The man said, The woman you gave me to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 
     Verse 13 - The Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? The woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;
     Verse 14 - The Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this (lied) you are cursed above all cattle, above every beast of the field, upon your belly shall you eat all the days of your life. (This seems to show the serpent walked upright like a man before he was cursed.)
     Verse 15 - God put enmity between the serpent and the woman and his seed and her seed...
     Verse 16 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception...desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.
     Verse 17 - He told Adam, Because you listened to your wife, cursed is the ground, in sorrow you will eat all the days of your life;
     Verse 18 - All that the ground will produce will be thorns and thistles, and you will eat the herb of the field;
     Verse 19 - God said, in the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground you were made of.
     Verse 20 - Adam called his wife Eve, because she is the mother of all living.
     Verse 22 - The Lord God said, Because man as become one of us, and put his hand to take from the three of life and live forever; 
     Verse 23 - The Lord sent Adam out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground. (Before he was cursed he didn't have to work for his food.)
     Verse 24 - He drove out the man and placed at the eat of the garden cherubims and a flaming sword to block the way to the tree of life.
     

GENSIS 4:
     Verse 1 - Adam knew Eve his wife; she conceived and bare Cain and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
     Verse 2 - She again bare his brother Abel. (some say they were twins, but the bible doesn't say.) Abel was a keeper of the sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
     Verses 3-7 - talks about the offerings Cain and Abel brought before the Lord and how God rejected Cain's and blessed Abel. Cain was angry toward his brother.
     Verse 8 - Cain talked with his brother Abel, when they were in the field; that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
     Verse 9 - The Lord asked Cain, Where is Abel your brother?  He said, I know not.  Am I my brother's keeper?
     Verse 10 - God said to Cain, What have you done?  Your brother's blood crys to me from the ground.
     Verse 11 - God said, and now you are cursed from the earth...
     Verse 12 - ...a fugitive and a vagabond you will be in the earth.
     Verse 13 - Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 
     Verse 14 - I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; it will come to pass, that everyone that finds me will slay me.
     Verse 15 - The Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him seven fold.  And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him would kill him.
     Verse 16 - Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod east of Eden. 
     Verses 17-22 - Are the generations of Cain.
     Verse 23 - Lamech the great-grandson of Cain, slew a man, a young man to my hurt. (from the birth and slaying of Abel by Cain are 4 generations to Lamech.)
     Verse 25 - Adam knew his wife again and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: for she said, God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew. (The bible doesn't say how many years passed or months until Eve conceived again.)


GENESIS 5:
     Verse 3 - Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat Seth. |
     Verse 4 - The days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters:
     Verse 5 - All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years (930); and he died.


GENESIS 6:
     Verse 3 - God shortened the life span of man because he was flesh and continued to sin. (man would no longer live hundreds of years.) Man's days were shortened to 120 years. (note: later in scripture, God shortened man's life span even more.  Only 70 years are promised.  Any years after that are blessings from God. We need to remember that and praise God for another year of life always, but even more so above 70 years.)



Written by Starlight aka Connie Lynn James, May 23, 2021. Finished posting on Starlight's journal July 1, 2021.  (scriptures taken from the King James Version of the Bible.)