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Genesis 2 Vs Genesis

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There are indeed two stories in Genesis on how we and the world came about. The first story starts at Genesis 1:1 and go through Genesis 2:3; the second story picks up at Genesis 2:4 and goes through the chapter ending at Genesis 2:25. In the first story, The Creation takes six days and man and woman are created last after all the plants and animals are created. In the second story, The Creation focuses on one day the sixth day, the man is created first, then all the plants and animals are created, and finally woman is created.
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Later, in Genesis 2:4, it seems that a second, different story of creation begins. These two stories actually describe the same creation event. …show more content…

In the first chapter of Genesis it presents the creation of man on the sixth day as the final point of creation. Then, in the second chapter, the author gives a lot more detail regarding the creation of man. People tend to claim contradictions between Genesis chapters 1-2. The first is in regard to plant life. Genesis 1:11 records God creating vegetation on the third day. Genesis 2:5 states that prior to the creation of man “no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground.” So, which is it? Did God create vegetation on the third day before He created man (Genesis 1), or after He created man (Genesis 2)? The Hebrew words for “vegetation” are different in the two passages. Genesis 1:11 uses a term that refers to vegetation in general. Genesis 2:5 uses a more specific term that refers to vegetation that requires agriculture, as in a person to tend to it, a gardener. The passages do not contradict. Genesis 1:11 speaks of God creating vegetation, and Genesis 2:5 speaks of God not causing “farmable” vegetation to grow until after He created man. It’s easily misinterpreted in

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