Genesis Cheat Sheet

 The Bible is full of vivid imagery that draws us into its own world of symbolic meaning. Here are just a few that can be found in Genesis 1, 2 and 3:

Genesis 1:2
deep — the abode of the fallen angels (demons), which lies under the face of the waters

Genesis 1:5
day — distinct time periods of unstated duration rather than actual days

Genesis 1:16
two (dyad) — its essence being to bind many together into one, to equate plurality and unity, such as night and day. In Genesis, Adam was one with God. But after the fall, humanity was separated from God creating a duality. The duality is what the Dyad represents.

Genesis 1:21
whales — The original Hebrew text reads: "And God created great tanniyan." The Hebrew word for tanniym means dragons, but the translators of the King James version wrote whales, perhaps because that was the biggest real creature they knew to exist at the time.

Genesis 1:26
us — God is thought to be referring to an angelic audience, or possibly the persons of the trinity — God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Genesis 2:2
seven — Seven is often thought of as the number of perfection. Seven is the number of law. Seven concerns the perfect law, when everything is subject to this law — be it in the world, in Heaven, in motion, or at rest — and doesn't require any external interference.

Genesis 2:19
Adam — man, mankind, to make, ground, earth-born, red earth

Genesis 3:1
serpent — devil, satan. This symbol is accurate, because the subconscious/conscious mind associates the qualities of the snake — slick, slow, suspicious movement, potentially dangerous and generally a threat — with the abstract ideas of temptation, malice, and predatory inclinations.

Genesis 3:6
fruit (from the tree of knowledge) — Apples are commonly regarded as the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. However, archeological evidence indicates that the apple was unknown in the
Middle East at the time the book of Genesis was written.

Genesis 3:7
nakedness — shame, guilt

Genesis 3:20
Eve — woman, to live, mother of the living

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