Quotes about Genesis

The literary framework view not only avoids this problem but actually explains it. The order of the days is not meant to reflect the chronology of creation. It is rather meant to express thematically the problems of darkness, watery abyss, formlessness, and void expressed in Genesis 1:2. 4.

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

It is, indeed, a unique occasion at which the distinguished word qadosh is used for the first time: in the Book of Genesis at the end of the story of creation. How extremely significant is the fact that it is applied to time: "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy." There is no reference in the record of creation to any object in space that would be endowed with the quality of holiness.

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.