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Matthew Henry: Genesis 2:1-3
1-3 After six days, God ceased from all works of creation. In miracles, he has overruled nature, but never changed its settled course, or added to it. God did not rest as one weary, but as one well pleased.…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:31
31 When we come to think about our works, we find, to our shame, that much has been very bad; but when God saw his work, all was very good. Good, for it was all just as the Creator would have it to be.…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:29-3
29,30 Herbs and fruits must be man's food, including corn, and all the products of the earth. Let God's people cast their care upon him, and not be troubled about what they shall eat, and what they shall…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:26-28
26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour and a favour to him. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and while…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:2-25
20-25 God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and as curious, seem to have been part of this day's…
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Genesis 1:20 (ASV), Genesis 1:21 (ASV), Genesis 1:22 (ASV), Genesis 1:23 (ASV), Genesis 1:24 (ASV), Genesis 1:25 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:14-19
14-19 In the fourth day's work, the creation of the sun, moon, and stars is accounted for. All these are the works of God. The stars are spoken of as they appear to our eyes, without telling their number,…
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Genesis 1:14 (ASV), Genesis 1:15 (ASV), Genesis 1:16 (ASV), Genesis 1:17 (ASV), Genesis 1:18 (ASV), Genesis 1:19 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:6-13
6-13 The earth was emptiness, but by a word spoken, it became full of God's riches, and his they are still. Though the use of them is allowed to man, they are from God, and to his service and honour they…
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Genesis 1:6 (ASV), Genesis 1:7 (ASV), Genesis 1:8 (ASV), Genesis 1:9 (ASV), Genesis 1:10 (ASV), Genesis 1:11 (ASV), Genesis 1:12 (ASV), Genesis 1:13 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:3-5
3-5 God said, Let there be light; he willed it, and at once there was light. Oh, the power of the word of God! And in the new creation, the first thing that is wrought in the soul is light: the blessed…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 1:2
1,2 The first verse of the Bible gives us a satisfying and useful account of the origin of the earth and the heavens. The faith of humble Christians understands this better than the fancy of the most…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 2:18-25
18-25 Power over the creatures was given to man, and as a proof of this he named them all. It also shows his insight into the works of God. But though he was lord of the creatures, yet nothing in this…
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Genesis 2:18 (ASV), Genesis 2:19 (ASV), Genesis 2:20 (ASV), Genesis 2:21 (ASV), Genesis 2:22 (ASV), Genesis 2:23 (ASV), Genesis 2:24 (ASV), Genesis 2:25 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 2:16-17
16,17 Let us never set up our own will against the holy will of God. There was not only liberty allowed to man, in taking the fruits of paradise, but everlasting life made sure to him upon his obedience.…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 2:15
15 After God had formed Adam, he put him in the garden. All boasting was thereby shut out. Only he that made us can make us happy; he that is the Former of our bodies, and the Father of our spirits, and…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 2:8-14
8-14 The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but a garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we seek things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach…
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Genesis 2:8 (ASV), Genesis 2:9 (ASV), Genesis 2:10 (ASV), Genesis 2:11 (ASV), Genesis 2:12 (ASV), Genesis 2:13 (ASV), Genesis 2:14 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 2:4-7
4-7 Here is a name given to the Creator, "Jehovah." Where the word "LORD" is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original it is "Jehovah." Jehovah is that name of God, which denotes…
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Genesis 2:4 (ASV), Genesis 2:5 (ASV), Genesis 2:6 (ASV), Genesis 2:7 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:14-15
14,15 God passes sentence; and he begins where the sin began, with the serpent. The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. Under the cover of the serpent, the devil is sentenced to…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:9-13
9-13 Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? Those who by sin go astray from God, should seriously consider where they are; they are afar off from all good, in the midst of their enemies,…
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Genesis 3:9 (ASV), Genesis 3:10 (ASV), Genesis 3:11 (ASV), Genesis 3:12 (ASV), Genesis 3:13 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:6-8
6-8 Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. 1. She saw. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. Let us not look on that which we are in danger of lusting…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:1-5
1-5 Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan's plan was to draw our first…
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Genesis 3:1 (ASV), Genesis 3:2 (ASV), Genesis 3:3 (ASV), Genesis 3:4 (ASV), Genesis 3:5 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 4:8-15
8-15 Malice in the heart ends in murder by the hands. Cain slew Abel, his own brother, his own mother's son, whom he ought to have loved; his younger brother, whom he ought to have protected; a good brother,…
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Genesis 4:8 (ASV), Genesis 4:9 (ASV), Genesis 4:10 (ASV), Genesis 4:11 (ASV), Genesis 4:12 (ASV), Genesis 4:13 (ASV), Genesis 4:14 (ASV), Genesis 4:15 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 4:1-7
1-7 When Cain was born, Eve said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed. If so, she was wofully disappointed. Abel signifies vanity: when she thought she…
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Genesis 4:1 (ASV), Genesis 4:2 (ASV), Genesis 4:3 (ASV), Genesis 4:4 (ASV), Genesis 4:5 (ASV), Genesis 4:6 (ASV), Genesis 4:7 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:22-24
22-24 God bid man go out; told him he should no longer occupy and enjoy that garden: but man liked the place, and was unwilling to leave it, therefore God made him go out. This signified the shutting…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:2-21
20,21 God named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth; Adam named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. Adam probably…
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 3:16-19
16-19 The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her…
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Genesis 3:16 (ASV), Genesis 3:17 (ASV), Genesis 3:18 (ASV), Genesis 3:19 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 6:1-7
1-7 The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that wicked world: God's just wrath, and his holy resolution…
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Genesis 6:1 (ASV), Genesis 6:2 (ASV), Genesis 6:3 (ASV), Genesis 6:4 (ASV), Genesis 6:5 (ASV), Genesis 6:6 (ASV), Genesis 6:7 (ASV)
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Matthew Henry: Genesis 5:25-32
25-32 Methuselah signifies, 'he dies, there is a dart,' 'a sending forth,' namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on earth;…
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Genesis 5:25 (ASV), Genesis 5:26 (ASV), Genesis 5:27 (ASV), Genesis 5:28 (ASV), Genesis 5:29 (ASV), Genesis 5:30 (ASV), Genesis 5:31 (ASV), Genesis 5:32 (ASV)
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