Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Genesis 2

^{1 a} That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heauen & earth.

^{2 b} For he had now finished his creacion, but his prouidence stil watcheth ouer his creatures, and gouerneth them.

^{2 !} God resteth the seuenth day & sanctifieth it.

^{3 c} Appointed it to be kept holy, that man might therein consider the excellencie of his workes & Gods goodnes towards him.

^{4 /} Or, the original & beginning.

^{5 /} Or, tre, as {Chap. 21,15}.

^{5 d} God onely openeth the heauens and shutteth them, he sendeth drought and raine according to his good pleasure.

^{7 e} He sheweth whereof mans bodye was created, to the intent that man shulde not glorie in the excellencie of his owne nature.

^{8 f} This was the name of a place, as some think, in Mesopotamia, moste pleasant & abundant in all things.

^{9 g} Which was a signe of the life receaued of God.

^{9 h} That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God.

^{11 i} Which Hauilah is a countrey joyning to Persia Eastwarde, and enclineth towarde the West.

^{12 /} Or precious stone, or perle. Plinie sayth it is the name of a tre.

^{13 /} Or Ethiopia.

^{14 /} Or, Euphrates.

^{14 /} Or, Tygris.

^{14 /} Or, Assyria.

^{15 !} He setteth man in the garden.

^{15 k} God wolde not haue man ydle, thogh as yet there was no nede to labour.

^{16 l} So that man might knowe there was a souereigne Lord, to whome he owed obedience.

^{17 m} By this death he meaneth the separacion of man from God, who is our life and chief felicitie, and also that our disobedience is the cause thereof.

^{17 /} Ebr. in the day.

^{18 /} Ebr. before him.

^{19 n} By mouing them to come & submit themselves to Adam.

^{22 o} Signifying that mankinde was perfit when the woman, was created, which before was like an vnperfit buylding.

^{22 !} He createth the woman.

^{22 /} Ebr. buylt.

^{23 /} Or, Manner, because she commeth of man: for in Ebr Ish is man, and Ishah the woman.

^{24 p} So that marriage requireth a greater dutie of vs towarde our wiues than otherwise we are bounde to shewe to our parents.

^{25 q} For before sinne entred all things were honest and comely.

²⁹ Mariage is ordeined.