• Part First. A General History from Adam to Abraham. Gen. 1:1-11:9.

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PART FIRST.

A GENERAL HISTORY FROM ADAM TO ABRAHAM.

Gen. 1-xi. 9.

§ I. AN ACCOUNT OF CREATION. i. 1-ii. 7.

1. The Beginning. i. 1, 2.

• In what beginning? 1.
• What is included in the expression "the heavens and the earth"? 1.
• Define the condition of the earth as stated in verse 2.
• What could have caused the darkness?
• Had this state continued from the beginning?
• What is meant by the remark concerning the spirit of God?
• What is added to this account in the Gospel of John? Jno. i. 1-3, 13.

2. The Darkness Terminated. 3-5.

• Let light be where? 3, cf. 2.
• Why and how was some darkness left and separated from the light? 4.
• What kind of a day? 5. [1]

3. A Firmament Made. 6-8.

• What the firmament, and what waters?
• Why called a firmament?
• What difference between the word "heaven" here and in verse 1?

4. Dry Land, Seas, and Vegetation. 9-13.

• By what natural force could the dry land be made to appear? 9.
• By what force did the earth bring forth vegetation?
• When were all these names given? 5, 8, 10.

5. The Heavenly Bodies Made To Give Light and To Serve as Signs. 14-19.

• How do these lights divide day from night? 14.
• How are they signs of seasons, days and years? 14.
• How is this account reconciled with the account of "the beginning," and of the first day? 1, 3.

6. Fishes and Fowls Created. 20-23.

• How could the waters bring forth living creatures? 20, 21.
• Why say, "abundantly"?
• Whence were the fowls made? ii. 19.

7. Creation of Land Animals and Man. 24-28.

• Why say, "Let us" and "our image"? 26.
• In what sense did the man bear the image of God?
• What dominion? and why given? 28.

8. Food for Man and Beast. 29-31.

• Was animal food now given? Cf. ix. 3.
• What of carnivorous animals?
• What formula did God employ in making things? 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26.
• What remark concerning everything made? and why? 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31.

9. Origin of the Sabbath. ii. 1-3.

• When was it blessed and hallowed?
• In what sense did God rest? 3.
• What division of time made by the sabbath?
• Could this division, or this rest day, have originated with men?

10. Other Details of Creation. 4-7.

• Meaning of "generations" in 4?
• Of "day"?
• What the reference in the term "these"?
• Time referred to in 5 and 6? Cf. 4.
• Define the process of making man. 7.
• What change in the title of God at verse 4? Cf. margin.
• What was created, and what only changed in the six days?
• Could there have been a period of light and vegetation and animal life between "the beginning" and the first of these days?
• Whence the writer's knowledge of creation?

§ II. THE PRIMEVAL STATE OF MAN AND HIS FALL. ii. 8-iii. 24.

1. A Home Provided for Man. ii. 8-14.

• Can the country called Eden be identified now?
• Can the rivers Pishon and Gihon?
• Where are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

2. Man's Privilege and Duty in the Garden. 15-17.

• What labor required, and why any?
• Why was the restriction imposed?

3. The Process of Forming the Woman. 18-25.

• Meaning of "help meet"? 18.
• How could the man speak? and how could he select names? 19.
• Why the peculiar way of forming the woman? I. Cor. xi. 7-12.
• How did the man know from whence she was? 23.
• When was this? i. 27.
• Whose words verse 24? Cf. Matt. xix. 4, 5.
• Did Jesus regard this account as real history? ib.
• What was the primeval state of man, physical, mental, and spiritual? i. 26, 31; ii. 15, 17, 20, 23.

4. The Pair Are Tempted into Sin. iii. 1-7.

• Trace the process of the temptation. 1, 4, 5, 6.
• Does it differ from the process with us?
• How was the man induced to partake? Cf. I. Tim. ii. 14.
• Was the temptation a weak one in either case?
• Was it the first temptation?

5. The Parties Arraigned and Sentenced. 8-21.

• What the immediate effects of the sin? 7, 8, 10.
• In what condition were the souls of the pair? Cf. Rom. viii. 6, 7.
• What the previous condition of the serpent? 14, 15, 1.
• Were there snakes before this? i. 25.
• Was any other being connected in this action with the serpent? Jno. viii. 44; Rev. xii. 7-9.
• Why not mentioned in Genesis?
• Why was the serpent degraded?
• When was the woman made subject to the man? 16.
• Were there no thorns and thistles before? 18.
• When called Eve? 20.
• Whence the skins for the coats? 21.
• What the part of God in making the coats?

6. The Pair Expelled from the Garden. 22-24. [4]

• What was it to know good and evil? 23.
• Why say, "as one of us"?
• How could eating of the tree of life cause them to live for ever?
• What is meant by cherubim? 24.
• Meaning of "flame of the sword"? Heb. i. 7.
• How long did this continue?
• What caused the physical death of the man?
• Difference between the title of God in this section and the first?

§ III. THREE SONS OF ADAM AND THEIR POSTERITY. iv. 1-v. 32.

1. Cain and Abel. iv. 1-8.

• How long their births after the expulsion from the garden?
• When did they begin to follow exclusive occupations? 2.
• When did they begin to offer sacrifices independently of their father? 3, 4.
• How did sacrifice originate?
• Why was Cain's offering not respected? 5. Cf. 7; Heb. xi. 4; ix. 22.
• What the immediate cause of the killing? 8.

2. Sentence Pronounced on Cain. 9-15.

• What was the cry of Abel's blood? 10; Cf. Heb xii. 24.
• What the elements of suffering in Cain's punishment? 13, 14.
• Why did he care for being hid from the face of God? 14.
• What men were in the world for him to fear? See the indications of time in 2, 3, 25.
• Why was this first murderer spared and protected? 15.

3. Cain's Later Home and Some of His Noted Descendants. 16-24.

• How "from the presence of the Lord"? 16.
• Where was [5] Nod, and why and when so called? 16.
• Who his wife?
• Why mention Enoch?
• How could Cain populate a city? Ge iv. 17.
• Why not continue tilling the ground? Cf. 2, 12.
• Was Lamech the first polygamist? 19.
• What were the dwellings in use before Jabal? 20.
• Whence Jubal's conception of instruments of music? 21.
• What implements used before the days of Tubal-cain? 22.
• What learned from Lamech's speech to his wives? 23, 24.
• Was Lamech a poet?
• How many new things originated in his family?
• Why is he mentioned and his ancestry given?

4. Birth of Seth and Days of Enosh. 25, 26.

• How old was Adam at the birth of Seth? v. 3.
• Was Seth the third son? Cf. v. 4.
• How long before his birth was the death of Abel?
• Meaning of, "call upon the name of the Lord"? 26.
• When was this? v. 3, 6, 10.

5. The Book of the Generations of Adam. v. 1-32.

• Why is this document called a book?
• Whose family register was it, and when was it made out? 32.
• How many years does it include?
• Who the oldest man, and who the youngest in the list?
• What is said of Enoch? 24. Cf. Heb xi. 5, 6.
• How far backward and forward did Methuselah's acquaintance extend? [It lapped on Adam's life three hundred and forty-three years.]
• Do the figures in this list allow the supposition that any names were omitted?
• How do the figures in it compare with those of the Septuagint Version?
• Was there a natural cause for great longevity? [6]

§ IV. THE DESTRUCTION OF MAN AND BEAST BY A FLOOD. vi. 1-viii. 22.

1. The Corruption of Men and the Decree of God. vi. 1-8.

• Distinction between sons of God and daughters of men? 2.
• Connection of their intermarriage with the corruption of men?
• How had God's spirit striven with men? 3, cf. Jude 14, 15; II. Pet. ii. 5; I. Pet. iii. 18-20.
• Connection of the hundred and twenty years? 3, cf. 13.
• Who were the Nephilim, and why mentioned here? 4, cf. Num. xiii. 33.
• How is the intensity of man's wickedness at the time indicated? 5.
• In what sense did it repent the Lord, and grieve him? 6, 7.

2. "The Generations of Noah." 9-12.

• How is the word generations used here?
• In what sense was Noah perfect? 9.
• What additional statement of the earth's corruption? 11, cf. 5.

3. God Directs Noah To Make an Ark. 13-22.

• What is gopher wood? 14.
• Why make rooms in it? 14.
• Its dimensions in feet? 15. [A cubit is eighteen inches.]
• How does it compare in size with the largest vessels now afloat?
• How had Noah and the men he employed become skilled in ship-building?
• Who bore the expense?
• Was the ark large enough to hold all the animals and their food? 20, 21.

4. A New Order Concerning the Beasts. vii. 1-5.

• What were clean beasts and birds, and why so many of [7] these? 2, 3, cf. viii. 20.
• How reconcile verses 2, 5 with 8, 9?

5. Entering into the Ark and Beginning of the Flood? 6-16.

• Why go in before the rain began? 7, 10.
• How get the animals?
• Why is the account of the entering repeated? 13-15.
• How is the beginning of the flood dated? 6, 11.
• Whence came the waters? 11.
• Age of the race when the flood began? 11, cf. chapter v.

6. Extent and Effect of the Flood. 17-24.

• Where was the ark built? 17.
• Does the writer mean by "all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven," what we now mean by the same words?
• Reference of the fifteen cubits? 20.
• Meaning of, "prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days"? 24, cf. viii. 3.

7. Subsidence of the Waters. viii. 1-14.

• What appeared to make the waters subside? 1.
• What was the real cause of it?
• How could the ark sail in the wind?
• How long from the beginning till the ark rested? 4, cf. vii. 11.
• How long this after the waters began to subside? Cf. 3.
• How long from the beginning till the mountain tops were seen? 5, cf. vii. 11.
• Till the raven was sent out? 6.
• Till the dove was sent out the third time? 10, 12.
• Till the face of the ground was dried? 13, cf. vii. 11.
• On what did the raven feed? 7.
• Why did the dove find no rest for the sole of her foot? 9.

8. The Departure from the Ark. 15-22. [8]

• How long the departure after the waters were gone? 14, 15, cf. 13.
• Why the delay?
• Whole time in the ark? 14, 15, cf. vii. 10, 11.
• Design of the burnt offerings? 20.
• Why the words "smelled the sweet savour," and "said in his heart"? 21.
• Had the succession of seasons been interrupted? 22.

§ V. FURTHER HISTORY OF NOAH. ix. 1-29.

1. A Law Concerning Animal Food and Blood. ix. 1-7.

• Is the eating of blood still prohibited? 4, cf. Acts xv. 20.
• Is it still a duty to slay a murderer?
• Who is here made the executioner?

2. God Makes a Covenant with Noah. 8-17.

• What need for such a covenant?
• Why say, "that I may remember," etc.? 16.
• Was this the origin of the rainbow?

3. Noah Predicts the Future of His Sons. 18-29.

• Did he know the effect of the wine? Cf. Matt. xxiv. 37, 38.
• Was there a law against intoxication?
• What feeling was displayed by Shem and Japheth? 23.
• Explain what is said of Canaan. 25.
• Who was he? 22.
• Was this curse a penalty for Ham's act?
• Did the speech cause Ham any pain?
• Meaning of the speech about Shem? and that about Japheth? 26, 27.
• What facts in history correspond to these predictions? [9]

§ VI. "THE GENERATIONS OF THE SONS OF NOAH." x. 1-xi. 9.

1. Those of Japheth. x. 1-5.

• How many sons? 2.
• Why so few grandsons named? 3, 4.
• Where did they finally settle? 5.
• Where are these isles?
• When the isles were filled, into what countries did the surplus pass?

2. The Sons of Ham. 6-20.

• How many sons? 4, 6.
• Of which of these is the further posterity given? 7, 13, 15.
• Why not those of Put?
• Describe the career of Nimrod. 8-12.
• Where was the land of Shinar, and where Assyria? 10, 11.
• When this book was written which was the greatest of these cities? 12.
• From whom were the Philistines descended? [Mizraim.]
• Where did the descendants of Canaan settle? 19.
• What countries, then, were the first homes of the Hamites? 10, 11, 19.

3. The Sons of Shem. 21-32.

• Why the expression "children of Eber"? 21.
• How many sons? 5, 22.
• Of which of these is the prosperity traced? 23, 24.
• Where did the Shemites settle? 30.
• What is meant by "the east"?
• What dividing of the earth in the days of Peleg? 26, cf. xi. 8, 9.

4. The Confusion of Tongues. xi. 1-9.

• Had the ark rested eastward or westward from Shinar? 2.
• Why the substitution of bricks for stones? 3.
• Purpose of the [10] city and tower? 4.
• What was wrong with it?
• Why say, "the Lord came down to see"? 5.
• Why prevent their attempt? 6.
• Is this account of the city of Babel consistent with that in x. 9, 10?
• What caused Nimrod to leave Babel and go to Assyria? 9, cf.x. 10, 11.
• How long the confusion of tongues after the flood? x. 25, cf. xi. 10-16. [2 + 35 + 30 + 34 = 101. 101 + 239 = 340 years.]
• Was the race then very numerous?
• Was Noah still living? ix. 28.

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