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NASB | Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 2:1 So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts (inhabitants). |
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Bible Note: Whenever the news media finds an event that they feel worthy of reporting, they try to answer as many editorial questions as they can about that event. If they consider the event really big, then there follows editorials and possibly other reports of similar events. I look at commentaries on the Bible that way, at least the commentaries on the historical narratives in the Bible. Creation is the first great event of the history of the world. Well, it IS the FIRST event of the history of the world, and it is great, and there would be more questions asked of this event than I could ever imagine. Some questions would be good, others foolish, some genuine, others skeptical, hostile or dubious. The editorial questions begin with what, how, where, when, who, and why. Some of these questions are answered, at least partly, in the narrative so far. Answers to other questions will have to wait until later on in the historical unfolding of this inspired chronical. I can see the headline: "God Creates Universe in Six Days!" "Five days ago the Lord God began a six day project that would culminate with the creation of a creature made in His own image - Man." The reporter would then go on unfold the events of each day. He might end his report with, "It is not yet know why the Lord God created the heavens and the earth and all their hosts, and put Man in charge of the earth, but It will be interesting to see how Man will exercise his dominion." |