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Eugene F. Roop focuses on the rich story line that traces the development of a community of faith in Genesis. He explores the important theological motifs of the book and their implications for our lives today. These themes include creation, disaster and reaction, promise and fulfillment, infertility and blessing. This commentary grew out of the study of Genesis in the congregational and...

Changed Self-Perception, 3:7–8 Judgment, 3:9–19 Trial, 3:9–13 Announcement, 3:14–19 Naming, 3:20 Provision of Clothes, 3:21 Expulsion, 3:22–24 The narrative begins with a long dependent clause (RSV) leading up to the creation of the human creature (2:4b–6). [’adam.] In this descriptive clause the earth lies barren: no rain to bring fertility to the fields and no one to care for cultivation. Only a flood of water (RSV footnote)
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