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Genesis 3:14-24 — Curses for Man, Woman & Serpent

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080927%20Genesis%203vv14-24%20-%20Curses%20on%20Man,%20Woman,%20Serpent.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:00 — )Subscribe: RSS  The curses on Adam, Eve and the Serpent are well-known but misunderstood. For example, how many snakes eat dirt? Is a husband to be a dictator for his wife? The original language of Gen. 3:14-24 holds the answers.

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Genesis 3:7–14 — Adam’s & Eve’s eyes opened to their ‘nakedness,’ shame covered by prophetic fig leaves

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080906%20Genesis%203vv7-14.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:04 — 9.5MB)Subscribe: RSSWhy do the fig tree show up in the Genesis 3 account of Adam and Eve’s decision to pursue knowledge of good and evil? What does the fig tree symbolize throughout the Bible?

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Genesis 2:25 – 3:1 — ‘naked,’ ‘ashamed,’ ‘serpent’ & ‘subtle’

Unknown to the English reader, the original Hebrew words for Gen. 2:25 and Gen. 3:1 contain a word play with root words translated as “naked,” “ashamed,” “serpent” and “cunning.” Some have made fun of this description as one of the first nudist colony or claimed that the first couple were really clothed with light. Yet there is a vital lesson in the nakedness.

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Genesis 2:17-25 — ‘in dying you shall die’; woman the ‘helper’

The LORD God warns Adam about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and decides that Adam needs a “helper.”

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Genesis 2:8-17 — four rivers, two trees in Eden

The Hebrew words behind the four rivers in Eden, the garden and the two trees in Gen. 2:8-17 help us understand more about God.

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Genesis 2:1-7 — ‘rest,’ ‘mist’ and ‘breath’

God created things in the physical world to explain what happens in the spiritual world. What is the spiritual teaching behind “rest,” “mist” and “breath” in Gen. 2:1-7?

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Genesis 1-2 — ‘made’ vs. ‘created’

Is there a distinction between use of Hebrew words translated as “created” and “made” in Genesis 1-2? If so, why is that distinction there?