NOUN
- the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers
How To Use Book of Genesis In A Sentence
- It recounts, in twelve expansive books, a story line that occupies only a few verses of the book of Genesis.
- Ancient Greek religion, what we call mythology, tells the same story as the Book of Genesis,(sentence dictionary) except that the serpent is the enlightener of mankind rather than our deceiver.
- They seem bent on taking the world back to an even more remote past, to when chaos lay on the face of the Earth; a time recorded in the Book of Genesis.
- For further details, see any of the modern commentaries on Genesis, e.g. Driver, _Book of Genesis_, pp. 85 ff. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition
- I had always been into science, and I didn't know how to square the book of Genesis with the things I had read.
- He presented core themes of his philosophy in the form of an exposition of occulted truths contained in the first book of Genesis.
- The official Robert Crumb "newsletter" is reporting that the famed cartoonist has finally finished his adaptation of the Book of Genesis that he's been working on for the past several years: And on the seventh day, he humped his Devil Girl statue | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
- They contain poetic truths, whether told to amuse and delight or to convey the best science man knew in a pre-scientific age, as witness the Creation story in the Book of Genesis.
- I wonder if the word "Niflheim" has any connection to the Hebrew word נְפִילִים nephilim, a race of giants mentioned in the book of Genesis. Old English gods and myths: Hell
- In the most famous example, from the Book of Genesis, Enoch father of the even hoarier Methuselah doesn't simply keel over at the ripe old age of 300 but is "translated," body and soul, into heaven. Foreign to Familiar, Essence Intact
