Genesis, The Book of Beginnings: Volume One

Rendered from the Hebrew and the Greek with Covenant Context

"In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth."

Every thread in Scripture starts here. The covenant, the Sabbath, the promised Seed, the blood, the altar, the oath, the sojourner, and the Bride all appear first in Genesis. Where a word is first mentioned, its meaning is set for the rest of the Bible. Read Genesis carelessly, and everything after it bends. Read it closely, and the whole story comes into focus.

Genesis: The Book of Beginnings renders the first twenty-five chapters of Genesis from the Hebrew, with the Greek of the Septuagint alongside, and sets each passage in its covenant context. The divine names are kept as the Hebrew gives them: Elohim, Eloah, and from Genesis 2:4 on, Yahweh Elohim. Where a Hebrew word carries more than English can hold, it is explained plainly in the notes and Key Term boxes.

Volume One moves from the six days and the seventh to the garden and the breach, the promise of the Seed who will crush the serpent's head, the line from Adam to Noah, the flood and the covenant with every living thing, and the scattering at Babel. Then the story narrows to one man. Abram is called out of Ur, walks the land as a sojourner, and receives the covenant cut between the pieces. The book follows him through Hagar and Ishmael, Sodom, the birth of Isaac, the oath at Beersheba, the binding on Mount Moriah, a bride found for Isaac, and Abraham's burial beside Sarah.

Each chapter opens with a full-page plate. Two appendices complete the volume: Where Readers Differ, which sets out the strongest objections and answers them, and Word of First Mention, an index of where key words first appear. A glossary follows.

This is the first book in the Ten Words Press Bible.