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Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to the author, his purpose is to “help the reader appreciate the major literary and theological motifs that form the theological ideas in the narratives, and to demonstrate how these theological ideas can be developed into clear and accurate expository ideas.” To accomplish this goal, Ross introduces four approaches to the study of Genesis—literary-analytical, form-critical,...

3. God creates life for the land, human life for his service (24–31). The sixth day reveals both the culmination and the goal of creation. After bringing order and fullness to the creation, God created human life to enjoy and rule the now habitable world. First, God created animals for the earth after their kind. Here again God created in kinds, or species. So far the expression “kind” (mîn) has been used for vegetation, both plants and trees, water creatures, air creatures, and now land creatures
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