Genesis 17:1-27
99 <08673> [A.M. 2107. B.C. 1897. was.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
sovereign <07706> [Almighty.]
Walk <01980> [walk.]
blameless <08549> [perfect. or, upright, or sincere.]
Then I will confirm ......... I will give <05414> [And I.]
descendants <07235> [multiply.]
father <01> [a father.]
multitude ... nations <01471 01995> [many nations. Heb. multitude of nations.]
name ...... name <08034> [but thy name.]
Abraham <085> [Abraham. i.e., father of a great multitude.]
nations <01471> [nations.]
kings <04428> [kings.]
I ... confirm <06965> [And I.]
God <0430> [God.]
descendants ................. descendants <02233> [and to.]
give ............................. God <05414 0430> [And I.]
residing <04033> [wherein thou art a stranger. Heb. of thy sojournings.]
permanent <05769> [everlasting.]
God <0430> [their.]
male <02145> [Every.]
flesh <01320> [the flesh.]
reminder <0226> [a token.]
eight days ................. foreigner <03117 01121 08083> [he that is eight days old. Heb. a son of eight days.]
born <03211> [is born.]
born <03211> [born.]
bought <04736> [bought.]
cut off <03772> [cut.]
failed <06565> [broken.]
Sarai <08297> [As.]
Sarah <08283> [Sarah. i.e., princess.]
bless ............. bless <01288> [And I.]
give <05414> [give.]
nations <01471> [be a mother of nations. Heb. become nations.]
Kings <04428> [kings.]
bowed <05307> [fell.]
laughed <06711> [laughed.]
might <03863> [O that.]
before <06440> [before.]
Sarah <08283> [Sarah.]
Isaac <03327> [Isaac.]
{Yitzchak,} which we change into Isaac, signifies laughter; in allusion to Abraham's laughing, ver. 17. By this Abraham did not express his unbelief or weakness of faith, but his joy at the prospect of the fulfilment of so glorious a promise; and to this our Lord evidently alludes, Joh 8:56.
bless <01288> [I have blessed.]
twelve <06240> [twelve.]
I will make him <05414> [and I.]
covenant <01285> [my.]
set time <04150> [at.]
circumcised <04135> [circumcised.]
Not only the Jews, but the Arabs, who are the descendants of Ishmael, retain the rite of circumcision to this day; and the latter perform it, as the other Mahometanus also do, at the age of thirteen.
circumcised <04135> [circumcised.]
Genesis 2:1-24
heavens <08064> [Thus.]
that was in them <06635> [host.]
seventh ................. seventh <07637> [And on.]
seventh day God ............. on ... seventh day <03117 0430 07637> [seventh day God.]
The LXX., Syriac, and the Samaritan Text read the sixth day, which is probably the true reading; as [vav <\\See definition 02053\\>,] which stands for six, might easily be changed into [zayin,] which denotes seven.
ceased <07673> [rested.]
Or, rather, ceased, as the Hebrew word is not opposed to weariness, but to action; as the Divine Being can neither know fatigue, nor stand in need of rest.
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
made ............... been doing ... creation <01254 06213> [created and made. Heb. created to make.]
account <08435> [the generations.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
shrub <07880> [plant.]
not <03808> [had not.]
cultivate <05647> [to till.]
Springs ... well up <0108 05927> [there went up a mist. or, a mist which went up.]
formed ... man ................... man <03335 0120> [formed man.]
[of the dust. Heb. the dust of, etc. dust.]
breathed <05301> [and breathed.]
nostrils <0639> [nostrils.]
life ....... living <02416> [a living.]
orchard <01588> [a garden.]
east <06924> [eastward.]
placed ... man <07760 0120> [put the.]
tree .............. tree ...... tree <06086> [every.]
tree .............. tree ... life .... tree <02416 06086> [tree of life.]
tree .............. tree ...... tree .... knowledge <01847 06086> [tree of knowledge.]
river <05104> [a river.]
Eden <05731> [Eden.]
Eden denotes pleasure or delight; but was certainly the name of a place, and was, most probably, situated in Armenia, near the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and Araxes.
Havilah <02341> [Havilah.]
Bdellium is a transparent aromatic gum. The onyx is a precious stone, so called from a Greek word signifying a man's nail, to the colour of which it nearly approaches.
lazuli <07718> [onyx.]
Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
The Araxes, which runs into the Caspian sea.
Cush <03568> [Ethiopia. Heb. Cush.]
The country of the ancient Cussaei.
Tigris <02313> [Hiddekel.]
[The Tigris. toward the east of. or, eastward to.]
Euphrates <06578> [Euphrates.]
man <0120> [the man. or, Adam.]
placed <03240> [put.]
God <0430> [God.]
freely eat <0398> [thou mayest freely eat. Heb. eating thou shalt eat.]
tree <06086> [of the tree.]
surely die <04191> [thou shalt surely die. Heb. dying thou shalt die. surely.]
good <02896> [good.]
make <06213> [I will.]
companion for him <05828> [meet for him. Heb. as before him.]
ground <0127> [And out.]
brought <0935> [brought.]
man ............ man <0120> [Adam. or, the man.]
So .... named <07121 08034> [gave names to. Heb. called. but.]
Then <01129> [made. Heb. builded.]
brought <0935> [brought.]
bone .... bones <06106> [bone.]
flesh .... flesh <01320> [flesh.]
woman <0802> [Woman. Heb. Isha.]
taken out <03947> [taken.]
man <0376> [Man. Heb. Ish.]
leaves <05800> [leave.]
unites <01692> [cleave.]
a ... family <0259 01320> [and they shall be one flesh.]
The LXX., Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan read, "they two;" as is also read in several of the Parallel Passages.
