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Genesis:1:1 @ In the (note:)First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing.(:note) beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The Argument - Moses in effect declares three things, which are in this book chiefly to be considered: First, that the world and all things in it were created by God, and to praise his Name for the infinite graces, with which he had endued him, fell willingly from God through disobedience, who yet for his own mercies sake restored him to life, and confirmed him in the same by his promise of Christ to come, by whom he should overcome Satan, death and hell. Secondly, that the wicked, unmindful of God's most excellent benefits, remained still in their wickedness, and so falling most horribly from sin to sin, provoked God (who by his preachers called them continually to repentance) at length to destroy the whole world. Thirdly, he assures us by the examples of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the rest of the patriarchs, that his mercies never fail those whom he chooses to be his Church, and to profess his Name in earth, but in all their afflictions and persecutions he assists them, sends comfort, and delivers them, so that the beginning, increase, preservation and success of it might be attributed to God only. Moses shows by the examples of Cain, Ishmael, Esau and others, who were noble in man's judgment, that this Church depends not on the estimation and nobility of the world: and also by the fewness of those, who have at all times worshipped him purely according to his word that it stands not in the multitude, but in the poor and despised, in the small flock and little number, that man in his wisdom might be confounded, and the name of God praised forever.
geneva@Genesis:1:2 @ And the earth was (note:)As an unformed lump and without any creature in it: for the waters covered everything.(:note) without form, and void; and Darkness covered the deep waters, for the waters covered everything. darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God He maintained this disordered mass by his secret power. moved upon the face of the waters.
geneva@Genesis:1:3 @ And God said, Let there be light: and there was (note:)The light was made before either Sun or Moon was created: therefore we must not attribute that to the creatures that are God's instruments, which only belong to God.(:note) light.
geneva@Genesis:1:4 @ And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.
geneva@Genesis:1:5 @ And God called the light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.
geneva@Genesis:1:6 @ Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.
geneva@Genesis:1:7 @ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] (note:)As the sea and rivers, from those waters that are in the clouds, which are upheld by God's power, least they should overwhelm the world.(:note) under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:8 @ And God called the firmament (note:)That is, the region of the air, and all that is above us.(:note) Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
geneva@Genesis:1:9 @ God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:10 @ And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God sawe that it was good.
geneva@Genesis:1:11 @ And God said, (note:)So that we see it is the only the power of God's word that makes the earth fruitful, which naturally is barren.(:note) Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:12 @ And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God (note:)This sentence is often repeated, to signify that God made all his creatures to serve for his glory and for the profit of man: but because of sin they were cursed, yet the elect, by Christ are restored, and serve to their wealth.(:note) saw that [it was] good.
geneva@Genesis:1:13 @ So the euening and the morning were the third day.
geneva@Genesis:1:14 @ And God said, Let there be (note:)By the lights be means the sun, the moon, and the stars.(:note) lights in the firmament of the heaven to Which is the artificial day, from the sun rising, to the going down. divide the day from the night; and let them be for Of things belonging to natural and political orders and seasons. signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
geneva@Genesis:1:15 @ And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:16 @ And God made two great (note:)That is, the sun and the moon, and here he speaks as man judges by his eye: for else the moon is less than the planet Saturn.(:note) lights; the greater light to To give it sufficient light, as instruments appointed for the same, to serve man's purposes. rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
geneva@Genesis:1:17 @ And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth,
geneva@Genesis:1:18 @ And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenes: and God sawe that it was good.
geneva@Genesis:1:19 @ So the euening and the morning were the fourth day.
geneva@Genesis:1:20 @ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the (note:)As fish and worms which slide, swim or creep.(:note) moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
geneva@Genesis:1:21 @ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the (note:)The fish and fowls had both one beginning, in which we see that nature gives place to God's will, in that the one sort is made to fly about in the air, and the other to swim beneath in the water.(:note) waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
geneva@Genesis:1:22 @ And God (note:)That is, by the virtue of his word he gave power to his creatures to reproduce.(:note) blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
geneva@Genesis:1:23 @ So the euening and the morning were the fift day.
geneva@Genesis:1:24 @ Moreouer God said, Let the earth bring foorth the liuing thing according to his kinde, cattell, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth, according to his kinde; it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:25 @ And God made the beast of the earth according to his kinde, and the cattell according to his kinde, & euery creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: & God saw that it was good.
geneva@Genesis:1:26 @ And God said, (note:)God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, «Let us make...» signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.(:note) Let us make man in our This image and likeness of God in man is expounded in (Eph_4:24) where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocency, power, etc. image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:1:27 @ Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.
geneva@Genesis:1:28 @ And God (note:)The propagation.(:note) blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:1:29 @ And God said, Behold, I have given you (note:)God's great.(:note) every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
geneva@Genesis:1:30 @ Likewise to euery beast of the earth, and to euery foule of the heauen, and to euery thing that moueth vpon the earth, which hath life in it selfe, euery greene herbe shall be for meate; it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:31 @ And God sawe all that he had made, and loe, it was very good. So the euening and the morning were the sixt day.
geneva@Genesis:2:1 @ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the (note:)That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.(:note) host of them.
geneva@Genesis:2:2 @ And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he (note:)For he had now finished his creation, but his providence still watches over his creatures and governs them.(:note) rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
geneva@Genesis:2:3 @ And God blessed the seventh day, and (note:)Appointed it to be kept holy, that man might in it consider the excellency of his works and God's goodness toward him.(:note) sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
geneva@Genesis:2:4 @ These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,
geneva@Genesis:2:5 @ And 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 (note:)God only opens the heavens and shuts them, he sends drought and rain according to his good pleasure.(:note) rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
geneva@Genesis:2:6 @ But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.
geneva@Genesis:2:7 @ And the LORD God formed man (note:)He shows what man's body was created from, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.(:note) [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
geneva@Genesis:2:8 @ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (note:)This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.(:note) Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
geneva@Genesis:2:9 @ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the (note:)Who was a sign of the life received from God.(:note) tree of life also in the midst of the garden, That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God. and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
geneva@Genesis:2:10 @ And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.
geneva@Genesis:2:11 @ The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land (note:)Havilah is a country adjoining Persia to the east, and inclining towards the west.(:note) of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
geneva@Genesis:2:12 @ And the golde of that land is good: there is Bdelium, and the Onix stone.
geneva@Genesis:2:13 @ And the name of the seconde riuer is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole lande of Cush.
geneva@Genesis:2:14 @ The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath)
geneva@Genesis:2:15 @ And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to (note:)God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.(:note) dress it and to keep it.
geneva@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God (note:)So that man might know there was a sovereign Lord, to whom he owed obedience.(:note) commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
geneva@Genesis:2:17 @ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely (note:)By death he means the separation of man from God, who is our life and chief happiness: and also that our disobedience is the cause of it.(:note) die.
geneva@Genesis:2:18 @ Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.
geneva@Genesis:2:19 @ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto (note:)By moving them to come and submit themselves to Adam.(:note) Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.
geneva@Genesis:2:20 @ The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.
geneva@Genesis:2:21 @ Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.
geneva@Genesis:2:22 @ And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a (note:)Signifying that mankind was perfect, when the woman was created, who before was like an imperfect building.(:note) woman, and brought her unto the man.
geneva@Genesis:2:23 @ Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.
geneva@Genesis:2:24 @ Therefore shall a man leave (note:)So marriage requires a greater duty of us toward our wives, than otherwise we are bound to show to our parents.(:note) his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
geneva@Genesis:2:25 @ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not (note:)For before sin entered, all things were honest and comely.(:note) ashamed.
geneva@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the serpent was more (note:)As Satan can change himself into an angel of light, so did he abuse the wisdom of the serpent to deceive man.(:note) subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he God allowed Satan to make the serpent his instrument and to speak through him. said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
geneva@Genesis:3:2 @ And the woman said vnto the serpent, We eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden,
geneva@Genesis:3:3 @ 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, (note:)In doubting God's warnings she yielded to Satan.(:note) lest ye die.
geneva@Genesis:3:4 @ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely (note:)This is Satan's chiefest subtilty, to cause us not to fear God's warnings.(:note) die:
geneva@Genesis:3:5 @ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, (note:)As though he said, God forbids you to eat of the fruit, only because he knows that if you eat of it, you will be like him.(:note) knowing good and evil.
geneva@Genesis:3:6 @ And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he (note:)Not so much to please his wife, as moved by ambition at her persuasion.(:note) did eat.
geneva@Genesis:3:7 @ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they (note:)They began to feel their misery, but they did not seek God for a remedy.(:note) knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
geneva@Genesis:3:8 @ And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife (note:)The sinful conscience flees God's presence.(:note) hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
geneva@Genesis:3:9 @ But the Lord God called to the man, and said vnto him, Where art thou?
geneva@Genesis:3:10 @ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] (note:)His hypocrisy appears in that he hid the cause of his nakedness, which was the transgression of God's commandment.(:note) naked; and I hid myself.
geneva@Genesis:3:11 @ And he saide, Who tolde thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate?
geneva@Genesis:3:12 @ And the man said, The woman whom thou (note:)His wickedness and lack of true repentance appears in this that he blamed God because he had given him a wife.(:note) gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
geneva@Genesis:3:13 @ And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, (note:)Instead of confessing her sin, she increases it by accusing the serpent.(:note) The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
geneva@Genesis:3:14 @ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, (note:)He asked the reason from Adam and his wife, because he would bring them to repentance, but he does not ask the serpent, because he would show him no mercy.(:note) Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and As a vile and contemptible beast, (Isa_65:25). dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
geneva@Genesis:3:15 @ And I will put enmity between (note:)He chiefly means Satan, by whose action and deceit the serpent deceived the woman.(:note) thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy That is, the power of sin and death. head, and thou shalt Satan shall sting Christ and his members, but not overcome them. bruise his heel.
geneva@Genesis:3:16 @ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy (note:)The Lord comforts Adam by the promise of the blessed seed, and also punishes the body for the sin which the soul should have been punished for; that the spirit having conceived hope of forgiveness might live by faith. (1Co_14:34).(:note) sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
geneva@Genesis:3:17 @ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: (note:)The transgression of God's commandment was the reason that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse.(:note) cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
geneva@Genesis:3:18 @
geneva@Genesis:3:19 @ In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
geneva@Genesis:3:20 @ (And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)
geneva@Genesis:3:21 @ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God (note:)Or, gave them knowledge to make themselves coats.(:note) make coats of skins, and clothed them.
geneva@Genesis:3:22 @ And the LORD God said, (note:)By this derision by reproaches Adam's misery, into which he was fallen by ambition.(:note) Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and Adam deprived of life, lost also the sign of it. take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
geneva@Genesis:3:23 @ Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken.
geneva@Genesis:3:24 @ Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
geneva@Genesis:4:1 @ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she (note:)Man's nature, the estate of marriage, and God's blessing were not utterly abolished through sin, but the quality or condition of it was changed.(:note) conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man That is, according to the Lord's promise, as some read (Gen_3:15), «To the Lord» rejoicing for the son she had born, whom she would offer to the Lord as the first fruits of her birth. from the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:4:2 @ And againe she brought foorth his brother Habel, & Habel was a keeper of sheepe, and Kain was a tiller of the ground.
geneva@Genesis:4:3 @ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an (note:)This declares that the father instructed his children in the knowledge of God, and also how God gave them sacrifices to signify their salvation, though they were destitute of the ordinance of the tree of life.(:note) offering unto the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:4:4 @ And Habel also him selfe brought of the first fruites of his sheepe, and of the fat of them, and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his offering,
geneva@Genesis:4:5 @ But vnto Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell downe.
geneva@Genesis:4:6 @ Then ye Lord said vnto Kain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance cast downe?
geneva@Genesis:4:7 @ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be (note:)Both you and your sacrifice shall be acceptable to me.(:note) accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the Sin will still torment your conscience. door. And unto thee [shall be] his The dignity of the first born is given to Cain over Abel. desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
geneva@Genesis:4:8 @ Then Kain spake to Habel his brother; when they were in the fielde, Kain rose vp against Habel his brother, and slewe him.
geneva@Genesis:4:9 @ And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: (note:)This is the nature of the reprobate when they are rebuke for their hypocrisy, even to neglect God and outrage him.(:note) [Am] I my brother's keeper?
geneva@Genesis:4:10 @ And he said, What hast thou done? the (note:)God avenges the wrongs against his saints, though no one complains: for the iniquity itself cries for vengeance.(:note) voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
geneva@Genesis:4:11 @ And now [art] thou cursed (note:)The earth will be a witness against you, which mercifully received the blood you most cruelly shed.(:note) from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
geneva@Genesis:4:12 @ When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a (note:)You will never have rest for your heart will be in continual fear and worry.(:note) fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
geneva@Genesis:4:13 @ And Cain said unto the LORD, (note:)He burdens God as a cruel judge because he punished him so severely.(:note) My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
geneva@Genesis:4:14 @ Behold, thou hast cast me out this day fro the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and shalbe a vagabond, and a runnagate in the earth, and whosoeuer findeth me, shall slay me.
geneva@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, (note:)Not for the love he had for Cain, but to suppress murder.(:note) vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a Which was some visible sign of God's judgment, that others should fear by it. mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
geneva@Genesis:4:16 @ Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.
geneva@Genesis:4:17 @ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a (note:)Thinking by this to be safe, and to have less reason to fear God's judgments against him.(:note) city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
geneva@Genesis:4:18 @ And to Henoch was borne Irad, and Irad begate Mehuiael, and Mehuiael begate Methushael, and Methushael begate Lamech.
geneva@Genesis:4:19 @ And Lamech took unto him (note:)The lawful institution of marriage, which is, that two should be one flesh, was first corrupted in the house of Cain by Lamech.(:note) two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
geneva@Genesis:4:20 @ And Adah bare Iabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as haue cattell.
geneva@Genesis:4:21 @ And his brothers name was Iubal, who was the father of all that play on the harpe and organes.
geneva@Genesis:4:22 @ And Zillah also bare Tubal-kain, who wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and of yron: and the sister of Tubal-kain was Naamah.
geneva@Genesis:4:23 @ And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: (note:)His wives seeing that all men hated him for his cruelty, were afraid, therefore he brags that there is none strong enough to resist, even though he was already wounded.(:note) for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
geneva@Genesis:4:24 @ If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech (note:)He mocked at God's tolerance in Cain jesting as though God would allow no one to punish him and yet give him permission to murder others.(:note) seventy and sevenfold.
geneva@Genesis:4:25 @ And Adam knewe his wife againe, and she bare a sonne, and she called his name Sheth: for God, saide she, hath appointed me another seede for Habel, because Kain slewe him.
geneva@Genesis:4:26 @ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to (note:)In these days God began to move the hearts of the godly to restore religion, which had been suppressed by the wicked for a long time.(:note) call upon the name of the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:5:1 @ This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the (note:)Read (Gen_1:26).(:note) likeness of God made he him;
geneva@Genesis:5:2 @ Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name (note:)By giving them both one name, he notes the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.(:note) Adam, in the day when they were created.
geneva@Genesis:5:3 @ And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own (note:)As well, concerning his creation, as his corruption.(:note) likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
geneva@Genesis:5:4 @ And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Sheth, were eight hundreth yeeres, and he begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:5 @ So all the dayes that Adam liued, were nine hundreth and thirtie yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:6 @ And (note:)He proves Adam's generation by those who came from Seth, to show the true Church, and also what care God had over the same from the beginning, in that he continued his graces toward it by a continual succession.(:note) Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
geneva@Genesis:5:7 @ And Sheth liued, after he begate Enosh, eight hundreth and seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:8 @ And all the days of Seth were (note:)The main reason for long life in the first age, was the multiplication of mankind, that according to God's commandment at the beginning the world might be filled with people, who would universally praise him.(:note) nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:9 @ Also Enosh liued ninetie yeeres, and begate Kenan.
geneva@Genesis:5:10 @ And Enosh liued, after he begate Kenan, eight hundreth and fifteene yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:11 @ So all the dayes of Enosh were nine hundreth and fiue yeeres: and he died
geneva@Genesis:5:12 @ Likewise Kenan liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Mahalaleel.
geneva@Genesis:5:13 @ And Kenan liued, after he begate Mahalaleel, eight hundreth and fourtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:14 @ So all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and tenne yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:15 @ Mahalaleel also liued sixtie & fiue yeres, and begate Iered.
geneva@Genesis:5:16 @ Also Mahalaleel liued, after he begate Iered, eight hundreth and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:17 @ So all the dayes of Mahalaleel were eight hundreth ninetie and fiue yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:18 @ And Iered liued an hundreth sixtie and two yeeres, and begate Henoch.
geneva@Genesis:5:19 @ Then Iered liued, after he begate Henoch, eight hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:20 @ So all the dayes of Iered were nine hundreth sixtie and two yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:21 @ Also Henoch liued sixtie & fiue yeeres, and begate Methushelah.
geneva@Genesis:5:22 @ And Enoch (note:)That is, he led an upright and godly life.(:note) walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
geneva@Genesis:5:23 @ So all the dayes of Henoch were three hundreth sixtie and fiue yeeres.
geneva@Genesis:5:24 @ And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for (note:)To show that there was a better life prepared and to be a testimony of the immortality of souls and bodies. To inquire where he went is mere curiosity.(:note) God took him.
geneva@Genesis:5:25 @ Methushelah also liued an hundreth eightie and seuen yeeres, and begate Lamech.
geneva@Genesis:5:26 @ And Methushelah liued, after he begate Lamech, seuen hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:27 @ So al the dayes of Methushelah were nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:28 @ Then Lamech liued an hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate a sonne,
geneva@Genesis:5:29 @ And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall (note:)Lamech had respect for the promise, (Gen_3:15), and desired to see the deliverer who would be sent and yet saw but a figure of it. He spoke this by the spirit of prophecy because Noah delivered the Church and preserved it by his obedience.(:note) comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
geneva@Genesis:5:30 @ And Lamech liued, after he begate Noah, fiue hundreth ninetie and fiue yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
geneva@Genesis:5:31 @ So all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundreth seuentie and seuen yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:5:32 @ And Noah was fiue hundreth yeere olde; Noah begate Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
geneva@Genesis:6:1 @ So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
geneva@Genesis:6:2 @ That the (note:)The children of the godly who began to degenerate.(:note) sons of God saw the daughters Those that had wicked parents, as if from Cain. of men that they [were] Having more respect for their beauty and worldly considerations than for their manners and godliness. fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
geneva@Genesis:6:3 @ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always (note:)Because man could not by won by God's leniency and patience by which he tried to win him, he would no longer withhold his vengeance.(:note) strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an Which time span God gave man to repent before he would destroy the earth, (1Pe_3:20). hundred and twenty years.
geneva@Genesis:6:4 @ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of (note:)Who usurped authority over others, and degenerated from that simplicity, in which their father's lived.(:note) renown.
geneva@Genesis:6:5 @ When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
geneva@Genesis:6:6 @ And it (note:)God never repents, but he speaks in human terms, because he destroyed him, and in a way denied him as his creature.(:note) repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
geneva@Genesis:6:7 @ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and (note:)God declares how much he detests sin, seeing the punishment of it extends to the brute beasts.(:note) beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
geneva@Genesis:6:8 @ But Noah (note:)God was merciful to him.(:note) found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:6:9 @ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.
geneva@Genesis:6:10 @ And Noah begate three sonnes, Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
geneva@Genesis:6:11 @ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with (note:)Meaning, that all were given to the contempt of God, and oppression of their neighbours.(:note) violence.
geneva@Genesis:6:12 @ Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:6:13 @ And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.
geneva@Genesis:6:14 @ Make thee an Arke of pine trees: thou shalt make cabines in the Arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
geneva@Genesis:6:15 @ And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
geneva@Genesis:6:16 @ A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] (note:)That is, of three heights.(:note) lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.
geneva@Genesis:6:17 @ And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.
geneva@Genesis:6:18 @ But with thee will I (note:)So that in this great undertaking and mocking of the whole world, you may be confirmed so your faith does not fail.(:note) establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
geneva@Genesis:6:19 @ And of euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.
geneva@Genesis:6:20 @ Of the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.
geneva@Genesis:6:21 @ And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.
geneva@Genesis:6:22 @ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, (note:)That is, he obeyed God's commandment in all points without adding or taking away.(:note) so did he.
geneva@Genesis:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen (note:)In respect to the rest of the world, and because he had a desire to serve God and live uprightly.(:note) righteous before me in this generation.
geneva@Genesis:7:2 @ Of every (note:)Which might be offered in sacrifice, of which six were for breeding and the seventh for sacrifice.(:note) clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
geneva@Genesis:7:3 @ Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole earth.
geneva@Genesis:7:4 @ For seuen dayes hence I will cause it raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and all the substance that I haue made, will I destroy from off the earth.
geneva@Genesis:7:5 @ Noah therefore did according vnto all that the Lord commanded him.
geneva@Genesis:7:6 @ And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:7:7 @ So Noah entred and his sonnes, and his wife, & his sonnes wiues with him into the Arke, because of the waters of the flood.
geneva@Genesis:7:8 @ Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,
geneva@Genesis:7:9 @ There (note:)God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, (Gen_2:19).(:note) went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
geneva@Genesis:7:10 @ And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:7:11 @ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the (note:)Both the waters in the earth overflowed and also the clouds poured down.(:note) fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
geneva@Genesis:7:12 @ And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
geneva@Genesis:7:13 @ In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke.
geneva@Genesis:7:14 @ They and euery beast after his kinde, and all cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euen euery bird of euery fether.
geneva@Genesis:7:15 @ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two (note:)Every living thing that God would have be preserved on earth, came into the ark to Noah.(:note) of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
geneva@Genesis:7:16 @ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD (note:)So that God's secret power defended him against the rage of the mighty waters.(:note) shut him in.
geneva@Genesis:7:17 @ Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth.
geneva@Genesis:7:18 @ The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters.
geneva@Genesis:7:19 @ The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
geneva@Genesis:7:20 @ Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered.
geneva@Genesis:7:21 @ Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man.
geneva@Genesis:7:22 @ Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died.
geneva@Genesis:7:23 @ And every living substance was destroyed (note:)That is, by God.(:note) which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only Learn what it is to obey God only, and to forsake the multitude, (1Pe_3:20). remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
geneva@Genesis:7:24 @ And the waters preuailed vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes.
geneva@Genesis:8:1 @ And God (note:)Not that God forgets his at any time, but when he sends comfort then he shows that he remembers them.(:note) remembered Noah, and If God remembered every brute beast, that ought also to assure his children. every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
geneva@Genesis:8:2 @ The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,
geneva@Genesis:8:3 @ And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.
geneva@Genesis:8:4 @ And the ark rested in the (note:)Part of September and part of October.(:note) seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
geneva@Genesis:8:5 @ And the waters decreased continually until the (note:)Which was the month of December.(:note) tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
geneva@Genesis:8:6 @ So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,
geneva@Genesis:8:7 @ And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:8:8 @ Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.
geneva@Genesis:8:9 @ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he (note:)The raven flew to and fro, resting on the ark, but did not come into it, unlike the dove that was taken in.(:note) put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
geneva@Genesis:8:10 @ And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.
geneva@Genesis:8:11 @ And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an (note:)Which was a sign that the waters were much diminished: for the olives do not grow on the high mountains.(:note) olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
geneva@Genesis:8:12 @ Notwithstanding he wayted yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.
geneva@Genesis:8:13 @ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the (note:)Called in Hebrew Abib, part of March and part of April.(:note) first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
geneva@Genesis:8:14 @ And in the second moneth, in the seuen & twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.
geneva@Genesis:8:15 @ Then God spake to Noah, saying,
geneva@Genesis:8:16 @
geneva@Genesis:8:17 @ Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite & increase vpon ye earth.
geneva@Genesis:8:18 @ So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.
geneva@Genesis:8:19 @ Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.
geneva@Genesis:8:20 @ And Noah (note:)For sacrifices which were as an exercise of their faith, by which they used to give thanks to God for his benefits.(:note) builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
geneva@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled a (note:)That is, by it he showed himself appeased and his anger at rest.(:note) sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
geneva@Genesis:8:22 @ While the earth remaineth, (note:)The order of nature destroyed by the flood, is restored by God's promise.(:note) seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
geneva@Genesis:9:1 @ And God (note:)God increased them with fruit, and declared to them his counsel as concerning the replenishing of the earth.(:note) blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
geneva@Genesis:9:2 @ And the (note:)By the virtue of this commandment, beasts do not rage as much against man as they would, yea and many serve his purposes by it.(:note) fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
geneva@Genesis:9:3 @ Every (note:)By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.(:note) moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
geneva@Genesis:9:4 @
geneva@Genesis:9:5 @
geneva@Genesis:9:6 @ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, (note:)Not only by the magistrate, but often God raises up one murderer to kill another.(:note) by man shall his blood be shed: for in the Therefore to kill man is to deface God's image, and so injury is not only done to man, but also to God. image of God made he man.
geneva@Genesis:9:7 @ But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.
geneva@Genesis:9:8 @ God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,
geneva@Genesis:9:9 @ And I, behold, I establish my (note:)To assure you that the world will never again be destroyed by a flood.(:note) covenant with you, and with your The children which are not yet born, are comprehended in God's covenant with their fathers. seed after you;
geneva@Genesis:9:10 @ And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.
geneva@Genesis:9:11 @ And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.
geneva@Genesis:9:12 @ Then God saide, This is the token of the couenant which I make betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing, that is with you vnto perpetuall generations.
geneva@Genesis:9:13 @ I do set my (note:)By this we see that signs or ordinances should not be separate from the word.(:note) bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
geneva@Genesis:9:14 @ And when I shall couer the earth with a cloud, and the bowe shall be seene in the cloude,
geneva@Genesis:9:15 @ And I will remember my (note:)When men see my bow in the sky, they will know that I have not forgotten my covenant with them.(:note) covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
geneva@Genesis:9:16 @ Therefore the bowe shalbe in the cloude, that I may see it, and remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God, and euery liuing thing in all flesh that is vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:9:17 @ And God said unto Noah, (note:)God repeats this often to confirm Noah's faith even more.(:note) This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:9:18 @ Nowe the sonnes of Noah going foorth of the Arke, were Shem and Ham and Iapheth; Ham is the father of Canaan.
geneva@Genesis:9:19 @ These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth (note:)This declares what the virtue of God's blessing was, when he said, increase and bring forth in (Gen_1:28).(:note) overspread.
geneva@Genesis:9:20 @ Noah also began to be an husband man and planted a vineyard.
geneva@Genesis:9:21 @ And he drank of the wine, and was (note:)This is set before us to show what a horrible thing drunkenness is.(:note) drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
geneva@Genesis:9:22 @ And Ham, the father of (note:)Of whom came the Canaanites that wicked nation, who were also cursed by God.(:note) Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and In derision and contempt of his father. told his two brethren without.
geneva@Genesis:9:23 @ Then tooke Shem & Iapheth a garment, and put it vpon both their shoulders, and went backwarde, and couered the nakednesse of their father with their faces backwarde: so they sawe not their fathers nakednesse.
geneva@Genesis:9:24 @ Then Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger sonne had done vnto him,
geneva@Genesis:9:25 @ And he said, (note:)He pronounces as a prophet the curse of God against all those who do not honour their parents: for Ham and his posterity were cursed.(:note) Cursed [be] Canaan; a That is, a most vile slave. servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
geneva@Genesis:9:26 @ He said moreouer, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.
geneva@Genesis:9:27 @ God shall (note:)He declares that the Gentiles, who came from Japheth, and were separated from the Church, should be joined to the same by the persuasion of God's Spirit, and preaching of the gospel.(:note) enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
geneva@Genesis:9:28 @ And Noah liued after the flood three hundreth and fiftie yeeres.
geneva@Genesis:9:29 @ So all the dayes of Noah were nine hundreth and fiftie yeeres: and he died.
geneva@Genesis:10:1 @
geneva@Genesis:10:2 @ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and (note:)Of Madai and Javan came the Medes and Greeks.(:note) Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
geneva@Genesis:10:3 @ And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
geneva@Genesis:10:4 @ Also the sonnes of Iauan, Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
geneva@Genesis:10:5 @ By these were the (note:)So do the Jews call all countries which are separated from them by sea, as Greece, Italy etc, which were given to the children of Japheth, of whom came the Gentiles.(:note) isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
geneva@Genesis:10:6 @ And the sons of Ham; (note:)Of Cush and Mizraim came the Ethiopians and Egyptians.(:note) Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
geneva@Genesis:10:7 @ And the sonnes of Cush, Seba and Hauilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: also the sonnes of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
geneva@Genesis:10:8 @ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a (note:)Meaning, a cruel oppressor and tyrant.(:note) mighty one in the earth.
geneva@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even (note:)His tyranny came into a proverb as hated both by God and man: for he did not cease to commit cruelty even in God's presence.(:note) as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:10:10 @ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of (note:)For there was another city in Egypt, called Babel.(:note) Shinar.
geneva@Genesis:10:11 @ Out of that land came Asshur, and builded Niniueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah:
geneva@Genesis:10:12 @ Resen also betweene Niniueh and Calah: this is a great citie.
geneva@Genesis:10:13 @ And Mizraim begat (note:)Of Lud came the Lydians.(:note) Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
geneva@Genesis:10:14 @ Pathrusim also, & Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistims) and Caphtorims.
geneva@Genesis:10:15 @ Also Canaan begat Zidon his first borne, and Heth,
geneva@Genesis:10:16 @ And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgashi,
geneva@Genesis:10:17 @ And Hiui, and Arki, and Sini,
geneva@Genesis:10:18 @ And Aruadi, and Zemari, and Hamathi: and afterwarde were the families of the Canaanites spred abroade.