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© 2025. The Book of Genesis contains mostly historical accounts, but it also includes the origin of laws that God later gave to the Hebrews in their scripture. One prohibited eating meat with blood in it (Genesis 9:4, and later Deuteronomy 12:23), another commanded circumcising their males (Genesis 17:10-14, and later Leviticus 12:3). Although God blessed the 7th Day of the week, Saturday, in Genesis 2:3 it was later given to the Hebrews to observe as their Sabbath Day law i

© 2025. Only God could have authentically originated the creation account in Genesis 1 because it started in the "beginning" before humans existed. The majestic literary descriptive style of vv1,3-4,6,9,11,14,20,24,26 and first-person verb tense used by God in vv26,29-30 suggest this was God's own creation account. However, much of this account was recorded in third person (eg., “And God said”…) so God must have revealed it to a human who preserved it (below). God’s name, Heb

© 2025. This commentary explains the Genesis 1 account is literally accurate by including clarifying observational science in its "technical summary" below. Then, the creation of the universe is fully described by combining all the bible verses about the "beginning" mentioned in v1 with modern astronomical discoveries (not theories). The Genesis 1: Creation, “Six Days” commentary explains the science of the later creation events in vv2-31. Introduction: The commentary, Au