Genesis 1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:5

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day."Although this verse appears to mean that the separation of light and darkness was the same as creating Day and Night, this meaning is not consistent with the appearance of the sun and moon on the fourth day. It is likely that light and darkness in some cosmic sense were divided on the first day."And there was evening and there was morning, one day ..." This is generally hailed... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:6-8

THE SECOND DAY"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day."The creation of the earth's atmosphere was God's work on the second day of creation. Jamieson pointed out that the term... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:9-10

THE THIRD DAY"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas: and God saw that it was good."There is far more than sufficient water upon the earth to inundate all of the continents and the highest mountains; and it took an act of creation to separate the dry land from the seas. Nothing is revealed here as to HOW God did... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:11-13

"And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, herbs, yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day."It is the entire kingdom of plant life, or vegetation, that appeared on the third day, not... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:14-19

THE FOURTH DAY"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, and to... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

THE FIFTH DAY"And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:24-25

THE SIXTH DAY"And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good."The parallelism between the last three and the first three days of the creation continues to be visible in the fact that God began the cycle of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:26-28

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:29-31

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food: and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1

The First Book of MOSES, called GENESIS. CHAP. I. God created the heaven and the earth: divided the light from the darkness: separated the superior from the inferior waters: supplied the earth with vegetables: furnished the heavens with light: created the brute animals: and, lastly, man. read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:5

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:6-8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:9-10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:11-13

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:14-19

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:24-25

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:26-28

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:29-31

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1

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