Similarities Between Genesis 1-24

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Genesis is the first book of the Pentateuch, the first section of the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures. The seven-day creation story is in Genesis 1:1-2:4 and it tells of a God whose mere word produces a beautiful universe in which human beings are an essential and important part. While Genesis 2:4b-3:24 can be seen as the second creation story with the creation of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Both creation, Genesis 1:1-2:4 and Genesis 2:4b-3:24, stories have a lot in common yet they also have a lot of differences. Chapters 1:1-2:4 is considered the Creation story because before the creations made there was only God. God creates every thing by speaking, the power of the spoken word. It is made very clear that there is only one …show more content…

When God finishes all of his work and looks over what he has done He sees it as “It is good” . The three domains now are earth, water, and Heaven. Genesis 2:4b-3:24 are a different take on the creation story. Instead of God creating the Heavens and the earth, they are already created. Also instead of “God” creating everything it is “Lord God”. Referring as “Lord God” is a more personal name than just “God”. God forms a “man from the dust of the ground.” Following this Lord God plants a garden, the Garden of Eden, and puts the man in the garden. He puts this man into the garden so he can take care of the garden. This garden grows the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The garden of Eden is watered by a river, and the river seems to split into different rivers: Pishon, which goes through Havilah, Gihon, which winds its way through Cush, Tigris, which runs to the east of Ashur, and Euphrates. God tells the man that he is not allowed to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If he ends up eating from the tree he will have to become a being that dies. God wanted to create something so the man would not be lonely so He created animals. But none of the animals created seemed to be the perfect ideal to keep the man occupied. When God realizes this he pulls out a rib from the mans side to create a

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