This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. Genesis 2:4 NASB The account of – The King James renders this verse as “these are the generations of.” This represents the Hebrew tôlēdôt, but it misdirects us in English. The English word…
Though while he lives he congratulates himself—and though people praise you when you do well for yourself—he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light. Psalm 49:18-19 NASB The generation of his fathers – Do you recall the investigation into verse 15, the verse that apparently suggests an afterlife? We discovered that the idea…
But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them. Luke 11:46-47 NASB Woe to you – I find no evidence that…
“Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…
Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments and My statutes; 1 Kings 11:34 NASB For the sake of – Let’s see now. The usual…
And these are the generations of Terah: Genesis 11:27 (translation J. Green) These are the generations – We are familiar with the Hebrew term toledoth, in this verse, e’le toldoth. We investigated the problem with the spelling of this word. We’ve noted that the toledoth pattern is the structural framework of Genesis and the deliberate…
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHWH Elohim made the earth and heaven. Genesis 2:4 Generations – Rabbi Robert Gorelik makes an observation about the Hebrew word translated “generations” in his lectures on the genealogy of Yeshua. It is worth remembering. The Hebrew…
