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1Yahweh said to Moses, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God. 3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes. 4You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God. 5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

6“‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

7“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

8“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

9“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

10“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness.

11“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.

12“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.

13“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.

14“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.

15“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

16“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.

17“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness.

18“‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

19“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

20“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.

21“‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

22“‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

23“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

24“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. 25The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. 26You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you 27(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), 28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

29“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”

The Inclusio in Genesis 1:26-28

The Inclusio in Genesis 1:26-28

Note | Gen 1:27 | Hershel Wayne House

Genesis 1:26-28 seeks to emphasize three aspects of the creation of humanity. The first portion of this text in Hebrew becomes plain. The emphasis is that male and female, as man, is the creation of God, the word "man" being used generically. Next, the focus is that male and female is in the image of God. Last, the collective "man" is male and female by God's design.

Genesis 1:27-30

1:27 So God created man: The third time the verb for create is used in ch. 1 (see vv. 1, 21); it is used three times here. The language of  26 and 28 is elevated prose; this verse is pure poetry. The 12 words of the original Hebrew are arranged in three lines that have their own poetic repetition and cadence. The term for man is likely associated with the term for the red earth. Here the word is generic, including male and female. These words are sexual. Some have thought that the “discovery” of human sexuality was the forbidden fruit of Ch. 3. However, these words indicate that human sexuality was a part of the original creation (5:2). Although the misuse of human sexuality is soundly condemned in Scripture (Lev 18), its proper use is celebrated (Song 2:24, 25). Verses 26–28 include the woman no less than the man in the story of creation.

Adam is the name given to the first man in the creation narratives of Genesis. He was the husband of Eve and the father of Cain, Abel, and Seth. The Hebrew noun ’adham means “man” or “mankind” and is usually translated as “the man” in the early chapters of Genesis. These relate the creation of man; his naming of the various animals; the creation of his companion, the woman or Eve, and their expulsion from the paradisal Garden of Eden after disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, at the urging of the serpent. Expelled from Eden and reduced to a life of agricultural labor, Adam became the father of the ill-fated Cain and Abel, and later of Seth. (See Gen 1:26-30; 2:7, 8, 15-25; 3:6-4:1, 25; 5:1-5; 1 Chr 1:1; Luke 3:38; Rom 5:14; 1 Cor 15:45-49; 1 Tim 2:13,14; and Jude 14).

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The Inclusio Found in Genesis 1:27—God's Creative Work

The Inclusio Found in Genesis 1:27—God's Creative Work

Genesis 1:26-28 has three foci: the proposal by God in verse 26 of what He would do; the blessing by God in verse 28 after the creative work is done; the major emphasis of God's creative work in verse 27 that God created man in His own image as male and female.