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   From: skin@color.org   
      
   Creation of the heavens and the earth, and the preparation of the earth   
   for human habitation (1:1–2:25). Reaching back evidently through   
   billions of years of time, Genesis opens with impressive simplicity: “In   
   the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Significantly,   
   this opening sentence identifies God as the Creator and his material   
   creation as the heavens and the earth. In majestic, well-chosen words,   
   the first chapter continues on to give a general account of the creative   
   work relative to the earth. This is accomplished in six time periods   
   called days, each beginning with an evening, when the creative work for   
   that period is undefined, and ending in the brightness of a morning, as   
   the glory of the creative work becomes clearly manifest. On successive   
   “days” appear the light; the expanse of the atmosphere; dry land and   
   vegetation; the luminaries to divide day and night; fish and fowl; and   
   land animals and finally man. God here makes known his law governing   
   kinds, the impassable barrier making it impossible for one kind to   
   evolve into another. Having made man in His own image, God announces His   
   threefold purpose for man on earth: to fill it with righteous offspring,   
   to subdue it, and to have in subjection the animal creation. The seventh   
   “day” is blessed and pronounced sacred by Jehovah, who now proceeds ‘to   
   rest from all his work that he has made.’ The account next gives a   
   close-up, or magnified view, of God’s creative work as regards man. It   
   describes the garden of Eden and its location, states God’s law of the   
   forbidden tree, relates Adam’s naming of the animals, and then gives the   
   account of Jehovah’s arranging the first marriage by forming a wife from   
   Adam’s own body and bringing her to Adam.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)