4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-7)In these verses, I. Here is a name given to the Creator which we have not yet met with, and that is Jehovah —the LORD, in capital letters, which are constantly used in our English translation to intimate that in the original it is Jehovah . All along, in the first chapter, he was called Elohim—a God of power ; but now Jehovah Elohim—a God of power and perfection , a finishing God. As we find him k…
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