Geneva Bible Notes: Genesis 2

Genesis 2:1 (a) That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heauen & earth.

Genesis 2:2 (b) For he had now finished his creacion, but his prouidence stil watcheth ouer his creatures, and gouerneth them.

Genesis 2:2 (!) God resteth the seuenth day & sanctifieth it.

Genesis 2:3 (c) Appointed it to be kept holy, that man might therein consider the excellencie of his workes & Gods goodnes towards him.

Genesis 2:4 (/) Or, the original & beginning.

Genesis 2:5 (/) Or, tre, as {Chap. 21,15}.

Genesis 2:5 (d) God onely openeth the heauens and shutteth them, he sendeth drought and raine according to his good pleasure.

Genesis 2:7 (e) He sheweth whereof mans bodye was created, to the intent that man shulde not glorie in the excellencie of his owne nature.

Genesis 2:8 (f) This was the name of a place, as some think, in Mesopotamia, moste pleasant & abundant in all things.

Genesis 2:9 (g) Which was a signe of the life receaued of God.

Genesis 2:9 (h) That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God.

Genesis 2:11 (i) Which Hauilah is a countrey joyning to Persia Eastwarde, and enclineth towarde the West.

Genesis 2:12 (/) Or precious stone, or perle. Plinie sayth it is the name of a tre.

Genesis 2:13 (/) Or Ethiopia.

Genesis 2:14 (/) Or, Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14 (/) Or, Tygris.

Genesis 2:14 (/) Or, Assyria.

Genesis 2:15 (!) He setteth man in the garden.

Genesis 2:15 (k) God wolde not haue man ydle, thogh as yet there was no nede to labour.

Genesis 2:16 (l) So that man might knowe there was a souereigne Lord, to whome he owed obedience.

Genesis 2:17 (m) By this death he meaneth the separacion of man from God, who is our life and chief felicitie, and also that our disobedience is the cause thereof.

Genesis 2:17 (/) Ebr. in the day.

Genesis 2:18 (/) Ebr. before him.

Genesis 2:19 (n) By mouing them to come & submit themselves to Adam.

Genesis 2:22 (o) Signifying that mankinde was perfit when the woman, was created, which before was like an vnperfit buylding.

Genesis 2:22 (!) He createth the woman.

Genesis 2:22 (/) Ebr. buylt.

Genesis 2:23 (/) Or, Manner, because she commeth of man: for in Ebr Ish is man, and Ishah the woman.

Genesis 2:24 (p) So that marriage requireth a greater dutie of vs towarde our wiues than otherwise we are bounde to shewe to our parents.

Genesis 2:25 (q) For before sinne entred all things were honest and comely.

Genesis 2:29 Mariage is ordeined.