Besides my prior post, a Margin Outline of Creation, here are some additional margin notes I have made in the first chapter of the book of Genesis.
Verse 1 - "In the beginning God..."
No attempt to try to prove God's existence; just stated as a given fact.
"God" is plural in the Hebrew. An early hint at the Trinity without contradicting that there is only one God.
Verse 4 - "...and God divided the light from the darkness."
Separation is an integral part of the creative acts, Genesis 1:4, 1:6, 1:7, 1:14, 1:18.
Verse 16 - "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night..."
KJV translators' note: "for the rule of the day." "Rule" does not mean to rule over in authority, but to signify a measure (as a 12 inch "ruler" does). This answers v. 14, "to divide the day from the night."
Verse 26 - "And God said, Let us make man in our image..."
God refers to Himself as "us" and to "our image." Another early hint at the Trinity.
Verse 26 - "...and let them [Man] have dominion over...all the earth, and over every creeping thing...."
Cross references for mankind's dominion and stewardship over God's creation: Genesis 9:2-3; Psalm 8:4-8; Psalm 115:16; Hebrews 2:6-8; James 3:7.
Verse 27 - "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Adam and Eve were both created on the sixth day. Chapter two, completely detailing Adam's creation from dust and then Eve's from his side, is not a separate creation account; it is an expanded view of the sixth day. Without Eve, God could not have pronounced everything "very good" at the end of the sixth day in Genesis 1:31, nor rested on the seventh day.
Verse 30 - "And to every beast of the earth... I have given every green herb for meat."
Before sin, there was no death in the world (Romans 5:12), including among animals (Romans 8:20-22). So before the Fall, all animals were plant eaters. They will be again during the Kingdom age, Isaiah 11:7.
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