Gênesis 2

Gênesis 2

Constable adds an interesting thought on the significance of the seventh day - The writers of Scripture used the Sabbath to anticipate the hope of Messianic redemption throughout the Old Testament. "In the creation account the Sabbath points forward to the time when God will bring, ". . . a perfect and complete cosmos out of chaos. . . . The weekly rest-experience of the Sabbath [under the Mosaic Law] served to epitomize the future peace and rest of the Messianic age." (Quoting Samuele Bacciocchi - "Sabbatical Typologies of Messianic Redemption") Victor Hamilton - As is well known, the Hebrew verb qāḏaš means “to set apart.” By virtue of being sanctified, one day of rest is set apart from six days of activity. It is divine designation alone that marks the seventh day as holy. Humanity does not confer sanctity on this day by abstention from work. In the words of Westermann, “The sanctification of the Sabbath institutes an order for humankind according to which time is divided into time and holy time.… By sanctifying the seventh day God instituted a polarity between the everyday and the solemn, between days of work and days of rest, which was to be determinative for human existence.” (See context in The Book of Genesis) Spurgeon has this note on Genesis 2:3 - The seventh day had been an ordinary portion of time before, but He set it apart for His own service, that on the seventh day man should do no work for himself, but rest and serve his Maker. That is why, in Leviticus 27:14, you read, “And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD,” and so on. This particular verse was meant as a direction to devout Jews who set apart a field or house to be God’s, intending that either the produce of the field or the occupation of the house should be wholly given either to God’s priests or to the Levites, or that, in some other way, it should be set apart for holy uses. Now, nothing was done to the house; there were no ceremonies; we do not read that it was cleansed or washed or sprinkled with blood; but the mere fact that it was set apart for God was considered to be a sanctification. Blessed (01288) barak is a verb which literally can mean to kneel (to go to one's knees - Camel in Ge 24:11, Solomon in 2Chr 6:13) as contrasted with standing position or even a bowing at the waist). And so barak can refer to an act of adoration sometimes on bended knee. To give divine blessings (Ge 1:22, 9:1-7) To esteem greatly or adore God for His blessings (Ge 24:48, Ps 103:1) To invoke blessings upon another (Ge 24:60, 27:4, 27) Barak is a key verb in Genesis - Gen. 1:22; Gen. 1:28; Gen. 2:3; Gen. 5:2; Gen. 9:1; Gen. 9:26; Gen. 12:2; Gen. 12:3; Gen. 14:19; Gen. 14:20; Gen. 17:16; Gen. 17:20; Gen. 18:18; Gen. 22:17; Gen. 22:18; Gen. 24:1; Gen. 24:11; Gen. 24:27; Gen. 24:31; Gen. 24:35; Gen. 24:48; Gen. 24:60; Gen. 25:11; Gen. 26:3; Gen. 26:4; Gen. 26:12; Gen. 26:24; Gen. 26:29; Gen. 27:4; Gen. 27:7; Gen. 27:10; Gen. 27:19; Gen. 27:23; Gen. 27:25; Gen. 27:27; Gen. 27:29; Gen. 27:30; Gen. 27:31; Gen. 27:33; Gen. 27:34; Gen. 27:38; Gen. 27:41; Gen. 28:1; Gen. 28:3; Gen. 28:6; Gen. 28:14; Gen. 30:27; Gen. 30:30; Gen. 31:55; Gen. 32:26; Gen. 32:29; Gen. 35:9; Gen. 39:5; Gen. 47:7; Gen. 47:10; Gen. 48:3; Gen. 48:9; Gen. 48:15; Gen. 48:16; Gen. 48:20; Gen. 49:25; Gen. 49:28 Sanctified (consecrated, made holy) (06942) qadash means to set apart for a specific use. Removed from common use. To be holy. To show one's self to be holy. To consecrate or dedicate. To set apart a person or thing from all common or secular purposes to some religious use. Everything consecrated to God was separated from all profane use. Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. BGT αὕτη ἡ βίβλος γενέσεως οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς ὅτε ἐγένετο ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν KJV These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, NET This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens. BBE These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made. CSB These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. ERV These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. ESV 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. GWN This is the account of heaven and earth when they were created, at the time when the LORD God made earth and heaven. NKJ This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, NAB Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- NIV This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- NJB Such was the story of heaven and earth as they were created. At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven NLT This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, NRS 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, YLT These are births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens; LXE This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth, ASV These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven. DBY These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens, This is the account (the generations): Ge 1:4 5:1 10:1 11:10 25:12,19 36:1,9 Ex 6:16 Job 38:28 Ps 90:1,2 the LORD God: Ex 15:3 1Ki 18:39 2Ch 20:6 Ps 18:31 86:10 Isa 44:6 Rev 1:4,8 Rev 11:17 16:5 Genesis 2 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries Related Passages: Jeremiah 33:25 “Thus says the LORD, ‘If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, A NEW NAME: LORD GOD ESV Study note - The panoramic view of creation in ch. 1 is immediately followed by a complementary account of the sixth day that zooms in on the creation of the human couple, who are placed in the garden of Eden. In style and content this section differs significantly from the previous one; it does not contradict anything in ch. 1, but as a literary flashback it supplies more detail about what was recorded in Ge 1:27....The use of “Yahweh” throughout this passage underlines the personal and relational nature of God. (See context in ESV Study Bible)