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© 2025. The Book of Genesis  contains mostly historical accounts, but it also includes the origin  of laws that God later gave to the Hebrews in their scriptures . One prohibited eating meat with blood in it ( Genesis 9:4 , and later Deuteronomy 12:23), another commanded circumcising their males ( Genesis 17:10-14 , and later Leviticus 12:3). Although God blessed the 7th Day of the week, Saturday, in Genesis 2:3  it was later given to the Hebrews to observe as their Sabbath D

© 2025. Only God could have authentically originated  the creation account in Genesis 1 because it started in the "beginning" before humans existed. The majestic literary descriptive style of vv1,3-4,6,9,11,14,20,24,26 and first-person  verb tense used by God in vv26,29-30 suggest this was God's  own  creation account.  However, much of this account was recorded in third person (eg., “And God said”…) so God must have revealed it to a human who preserved it (below) . God’s

© 2025. The commentary below explains the unrecorded science behind the “beginning” in Genesis 1, v1 that includes modern astronomical discoveries about how the universe and our solar system began.  A preceding section, Authorship of the Hebrew Law, presented substantial evidence from scripture, archaeology, Hebrew writing style, and ancient history that Moses originally recorded the biblical books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and much of Deuteronomy during the H