Volume I
The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis
With John Brown’s marginal references, notes and reflections · Vol. I, p. 211
That is, Generation (Heb. Bereshith, in the beginning). In this book we have the writings of Moses covering 2369 years, viz. the creation of all things; the original happiness and fall of man; the expulsion from Eden; the progress of various arts, the general corruption of society, and the deluge sent to punish it; the preservation of Noah and his family in the ark, and their repeopling the earth; God's confounding of languages at the building of the tower of Babel, with his marvellous providences towards the families of Lot and Nahor, but especially of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Before Christ, 4004.—Julian Period, 710.—Indiction, 5.—Creation from Tisri or September 1.