Genesis 1:20-30 KJV,ASV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:27

‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.’ Now man’s privilege is stressed. He is created in God’s own image. Notice the stress on the fact that he is ‘created’, deliberately repeated three times in the verse. Three represents completeness. Again this is something totally new which does not come from what existed before. While his body is of the earth, his essential being is made in the likeness of God and the angels. However the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:28

‘And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the face of the earth”.’ Like the living creatures man is ‘blessed’. They are to produce children and populate the earth. This again brings out that sexual functions, rightly used, are blessed by God. The verb ‘subdue’ is strong, as is ‘have dominion’. The latter means... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:29-30

‘And God said, “Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food”. And it was so.’ God reminds man that He has made full provision for them, providing a storehouse that will propagate itself. Man may... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:1-31

Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4 a. The Priestly Story of Creation.— This section belongs to the Priestly Document (P). This is shown by the use of several of its characteristic terms, by the constant repetition of the formulæ , and by the formal arrangement. P’ s interest in the origin of religious institutions is displayed in the explanation of the origin of the Sabbath. The lofty monotheism of the section is also characteristic of his theological position.The story rests upon a much older... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

Genesis 1:20-Isaiah : . On the fifth day were created the denizens of the water and the atmosphere; the creatures that move in swarms in the water, all winged creatures, including insects, and the sea monsters, especially, perhaps, such as belong to mythology, and fishes. The rendering “ bring forth abundantly” is inaccurate; the margin gives the sense, though it would be better to translate with Driver. “ Let the waters swarm with swarming things (even) living souls.” The term is used of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:24-31

Genesis 1:24-Obadiah : . The sixth day is occupied with the creation of the land animals and of man. It is natural that a much fuller space than usual should be accorded to the latter. And the solemnity of the act is marked by the formula of deliberation, “ Let us make man.” The plural has been variously explained. Setting aside as beyond the range of the OT the view that the Father addresses the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the view that God speaks of Himself in the plural since He is the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:20

The moving creature, or, creeping thing. A word which belongs to all those living creatures who move with their bellies close to the element they move in. Hence it is used both of birds which fly in the air, Leviticus 11:20, and of things creeping upon the earth, as Genesis 1:24, and of fishes that swim in the sea, as here. And fowl that may fly above the earth. The particle that or which is oft wanting, and to be understood in the Hebrew language, as Genesis 39:4; Job 41:1; Isaiah 6:6;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:21

God created, i.e. produced out of most unfit matter, as if a man should out of a stone make bread, which requires as great a power as that which is properly called creation. Great whales; those vast sea monsters known by that name, though elsewhere this word be applied to great dragons of the earth. After his kind; in such manner as is declared in the first note upon Genesis 1:20. See Poole on "Genesis 1:20". read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:22

He gave them power of procreation and fruitfulness, which is justly mentioned as a great blessing, Psalms 128:3-4. Fill the waters in the seas; and consequently in the rivers, which come from the sea, and return into it. Let fowl multiply in the earth, where they shall commonly have their habitation, though they had their original from the waters; of which see Poole on "Genesis 1:20". read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:24

1. Those living creatures hereafter mentioned, whose original is from the earth, and whose habitation is in it. 2. Those tame beasts which are most familiar with and useful to men for food, clothing, or other service. 3. Creeping thing; to wit, of the earth, of a differing kind from those creeping things of the water, Genesis 1:20. 4. The wild beast, as the Hebrew word commonly signifies, and as appears further, because they are distinguished from the tame beasts, here called cattle. read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:27

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:28

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:29-30

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:1-31

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:24-31

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:24

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