"heavy-handedness."" The film earned rentals of $15,000,000 in North America during its initial theatrical release, and $25.3 million worldwide, though Fox posted a loss of $1.5 million. 20th Century Fox released the film on Blu-ray Disc on March 22, 2011. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Bible: In the Beginning... The Bible: In the Beginning... is a 1966 American-Italian religious epic film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. It recounts the first 22 chapters of the biblical Book of Genesis, covering the stories from Adam and Eve to the binding"
"Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:1 is the first verse of the first chapter in the Book of Genesis in the Bible and forms the opening of the Genesis creation narrative. In the Masoretic Text the verse consists of 7 words and 28 letters and is as follows: The first word is ""b'reishit"", or ""bereishit"" (). The definite article (i.e., the Hebrew equivalent of ""the"") is missing, but implied. The complete word literally means ""in [the] beginning [of]"". The same construction is found elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible, usually dealing with the beginning of a reign. The second word is the Hebrew"
"Genesis 1:3 Genesis 1:3 is the third verse of the first chapter in the Book of Genesis. In it, God (the Hebrew word used for God, like in all of Genesis 1, is Elohim) made light by declaration (""God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light""). It is a part of the Torah portion known as Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8). ""Let there be light"" (like ""in the beginning"" in ) has entered into common usage as a phrase. It is the motto (sometimes in its Latin form, ""fiat lux"") for many educational institutions (using light as a metaphor for"
"Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek """", meaning ""Origin""; , """"Bərēšīṯ"""", ""In [the] beginning"") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament. It can be divided into two parts, the Primeval history (chapters 1–11) and the Ancestral history (chapters 12–50). The primeval history sets out the author's (or authors') concepts of the nature of the deity and of humankind's relationship with its maker: God creates a world which is good and fit for mankind, but when man corrupts it with sin God"
"him, and plead for food. After much manipulation, he reveals himself and lets them and their households into Egypt, where Pharaoh assigns to them the land of Goshen. Jacob calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future before he dies. Joseph lives to an old age and exhorts his brethren, if God should lead them out of the country, to take his bones with them. Genesis takes its Hebrew title from the first word of the first sentence, ""Bereshit"", meaning ""In the beginning [of]""; in the Greek Septuagint it was called ""Genesis"", from the phrase ""the generations of"
"Genesis creation narrative The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity. The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for God) creates the heavens and the earth in six days, then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seventh. In the second story, God, now referred to by the personal name Yahweh, creates Adam, the first man, from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden, where he is given dominion over the animals. Eve,"
"assurance of all Christians) and the redemptive act of Christ on the Cross as the fulfillment of covenant promises as the Son of God. Tradition credits Moses as the author of Genesis, as well as Exodus, Book of Leviticus, Numbers and most of Book of Deuteronomy, but modern scholars increasingly see them as a product of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase ""elleh toledot"", meaning ""these are the generations,"" with the first use of the phrase referring to the ""generations of heaven and earth"" and the remainder marking individuals—Noah, the ""sons"
"two first chapters of the Book of Genesis. (There are no chapter divisions in the original Hebrew text, see Chapters and verses of the Bible.) The first account (1:1 through 2:3) employs a repetitious structure of divine fiat and fulfillment, then the statement ""And there was evening and there was morning, the [""x""] day,"" for each of the six days of creation. In each of the first three days there is an act of division: day one divides the darkness from light, day two the ""waters above"" from the ""waters below"", and day three the sea from the land. In"
"as the ""Five Books of Moses"" or the Pentateuch, meaning ""five scroll-cases"". The Hebrew names of the books are derived from the first words in the respective texts. The Torah consists of the following five books: The first eleven chapters of Genesis provide accounts of the creation (or ordering) of the world and the history of God's early relationship with humanity. The remaining thirty-nine chapters of Genesis provide an account of God's covenant with the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (also called Israel) and Jacob's children, the ""Children of Israel"", especially Joseph. It tells of how God commanded Abraham"
"and the common English names for the books are derived from the Greek Septuagint and reflect the essential theme of each book: ""Genesis"" begins with the ""primeval history"" (Genesis 1–11), the story of the world's beginnings and the descent from Adam. This is followed by the story of the three patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), Joseph (Genesis 12–50) and the four matriarchs (Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel). God gives to the patriarchs a promise of the land of Canaan, but at the end of Genesis the sons of Jacob end up leaving Canaan for Egypt due to a regional famine."
"connected to Psalm 104 (a ""poem of creation""), where God is described as wrapping himself in light. Some writers have seen a connection between this verse and the Big Bang in physical cosmology. Various translations into English of the Hebrew text """"Vayomer Elohim yehi-or vayehi-or"""" include: Genesis 1:3 Genesis 1:3 is the third verse of the first chapter in the Book of Genesis. In it, God (the Hebrew word used for God, like in all of Genesis 1, is Elohim) made light by declaration (""God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light""). It is a part of the"
"Protevangelium In Christian theology, the Protevangelium (also known as the protoevangelium, proto-evangelium or protoevangelion) is God's statement to the Serpent in the Garden of Eden about how the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head: ""And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."" (Genesis 3:15, KJV) Protevangelium is a compound word of two Greek words, Protos meaning ""first"" and evangelion meaning ""good news"" or ""gospel"". Thus the Protevanglium in Genesis 3:15 is commonly referred to as the first"
"are gods, they will die like mortals. Two creation stories are found in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first Elohim, the Hebrew generic word for God, creates the heavens and the earth in six days, then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seventh. In the second story, God, now referred to by the personal name Yahweh, creates Adam, the first man, from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden, where he is given dominion over the animals. Eve, the first woman, is created from Adam and as his companion. God creates by"
"1:1--3:24 (the story of creation); (2) Genesis 22:1-18 (the binding of Isaac); (3) Exodus 12:1-24 (the Passover charter narrative); (4) Jonah 1:1--4:11 (the story of Jonah); (5) Exodus 14:24--15:21 (crossing of the Red Sea); (6) Isaiah 60:1-13 (the promise to Jerusalem); (7) Job 38:2-28 (the Lord's answer to Job); (8) 2 Kings 2:1-22 (the assumption of Elijah); (9) Jeremiah 31:31-34 (the new covenant); (10) Joshua 1:1-9 (entry into the Promised Land); (11) Ezekiel 37:1-14 (the valley of dry bones); (12) Daniel 3:1-29 (the story of the three youths). The twelfth reading leads into the ""Song of the Three Children"" and"
"Genesis 1:4 Genesis 1:4 is the fourth verse of the first chapter in the Genesis. It is the response to God's command in , ""Let there be light."" It is part of the Genesis creation narrative within the Torah portion Bereshit. () The verse states that the light was good, and that God divided or separated the light from the darkness (see list of translations below). It has been interpreted in different ways, and illustrated by artists such as Michelangelo. The reference to goodness here reflects the fact that Hebrew thought had no place for believing the material universe to"
"""Remez-Hinted"" and ""Drush-Homiletic"" exegeses methods, which work exoterically, can be used in either Halachic or Aggadic contexts. Genesis 1:1 is often translated as ""In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."" However, Rashi comments, ""If you come to interpret it according to its peshat, interpret it thus: In the beginning of creation of heavens and earth.."" According to Rashi's linguistic analysis, the word ""bereishit"" does not actually mean ""In the beginning"", but rather ""In the beginning of..."" The first word of Genesis 1:1 is ""Bereishit"" (""in the beginning [of]""). According to the Vilna Gaon, all 613 commandments are"
"are joined by a literary bridge at Genesis 2:4|, ""These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created."" This echoes the first line of Genesis 1, ""In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"", and is reversed in the next phrase, ""...in the day that the God made the earth and the heavens"". This verse is one of ten ""generations"" ( "") phrases used throughout Genesis, which provide a literary structure to the book. They normally function as headings to what comes after, but the position of this, the first of the"
"the text of Genesis: whether a verse used the term ""YHWH"" (Yahweh) or the term ""Elohim"" (God) referring to God and whether it had a doublet (another telling of the same incident, as the two accounts of the creation of man and the two accounts of Sarah being taken by a foreign king). Astruc found four documents in Genesis, which he arranged in four columns, declaring that it was how Moses had originally written his book, in the image of the four Gospels of the New Testament, and a later writer had combined them into a single work, creating the"
"gospel groups things in threes), and R. T. France, in another influential commentary, notes the geographic movement from Galilee to Jerusalem and back, with the post-resurrection appearances in Galilee as the culmination of the whole story. The Gospel of Matthew begins with the words ""The Book of Genealogy [in Greek, ""Genesis""] of Jesus Christ"", deliberately echoing the words of Genesis 2:4 in the Old Testament in Greek. The genealogy tells of Jesus' descent from Abraham and King David and the miraculous events surrounding his virgin birth, and the infancy narrative tells of the massacre of the innocents, the flight into"
"which hovers the spirit of God. The following three days describe the first triad: the creation of light and its separation from the primal darkness (Gen. 1:3–5); the creation of the ""firmament"" within the primal waters so that the heavens (space between the firmament and the surface of the seas) and the ""waters under the firmament"" can appear (Gen. 1:6–8); and the separation of the waters under the firmament into seas and dry land with its plants and trees. The second triad describes the peopling of the three elements of the first: sun, moon, and stars for the day and"
"Genesis 1:2 Genesis 1:2 is the second verse of the Genesis creation narrative. It is a part of the Torah portion Bereshit (). Genesis 1:2 presents an initial condition of creation - namely, that it is ""tohu wa-bohu"", formless and void. This serves to introduce the rest of the chapter, which describes a process of forming and filling. That is, on the first three days the heavens, the sky and the land is formed, and they are filled on days four to six by luminaries, birds and fish, and animals and man respectively. This correspondence is emphasised in the framework"
"the world, but although the new world is as sinful as the old God has resolved never again to destroy the world by flood, and the history ends with Terah, the father of Abraham, from whom will descend God's chosen people. The history contains some of the best-known stories in the Bible plus a number of genealogies, structured around the five-fold repetition of the ""toledot"" formula (""These are the generations of...""):<br> Scholars generally agree that the Torah, the collection of five books of which Genesis is the first, achieved something like its current form in the 5th century BCE. Genesis"
"introduced in Genesis 2. ""Et"" () is a particle used in front of the direct object of a verb; in this case, it indicates that ""the heavens and the earth"" is what is being created. The word ""ha"" preceding ""shamayim"" (heavens) and ""aretz"" (earth) is the definite article, equivalent to the English word ""the"". Genesis 1:1–2 can be translated into English in at least three ways: The idea that God created the universe out of nothing (""creatio ex nihilo"") has become central to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but it is not found directly in Genesis, nor in the entire Hebrew"
"is given among others by Augustine in his Civitate Dei, where he notes that the generating sentence """" has 27 letters, i.e. 3 x 3 x 3, which in that age indicated power. (This suggestion is obviously spurious, resulting from Augustine's ignorance of Greek.) Augustine quotes also an ancient text from the Sibylline oracles whose verses are an acrostic of the generating sentence. The statement ""Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour"" affirmed the belief of early Christians in the twofold nature, of Jesus Christ being both fully human and fully divine. The belief in Jesus Christ being true Man and"
"the Giving of the Torah at Sinai, and the two Temples in Jerusalem. The final 2000 years, of preparation for the Jewish Messiah, are balanced between Divine concealment and revelation. Genesis 1:1 is said to hint to this idea. The verse contains seven (Hebrew) words, and each of the words except ""Hashamayim""(""Heavens"") contains the letter Aleph (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, with a gematria value of 1). The name ""Aleph"" hints at its etymological variants ""Aluph"" (""Chief/Ruler"", representing the one God) and ""Eleph"" (""One Thousand"", representing 1,000 years). Hebrew word roots generally contain three consonant letters. Of the"
"(). God exiles Adam and Eve from the Garden and installs cherubs (supernatural beings that provide protection) and the ""ever-turning sword"" to guard the entrance (). Genesis 4 narrates life outside the garden, including the birth of Adam and Eve's first children Cain and Abel and the story of the first murder. A third son, Seth, is born to Adam and Eve, as well as ""other sons and daughters"" (). Genesis 5 lists Adam's descendants from Seth to Noah with their ages at the birth of their first sons and their ages at death. Adam's age at death is given"
"with the following books, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, as Deuteronomistic History. There is a growing recognition that Genesis developed apart from the Exodus stories until joined to it by the Priestly writer. The Torah (or Pentateuch) is the collective name for the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. According to tradition they were dictated by God to Moses, but when modern critical scholarship began to be applied to the Bible it was discovered that the Pentateuch was not the unified text one would expect from a single author. As a result, the Mosaic"
"Book of Genesis as one of the three sons of Noah, saved through the Ark. They are always in the order ""Shem, Ham, and Japheth"" when all three are listed (Genesis 5:32, 9:18 and 10:1), but Genesis 9:24 calls Ham the youngest, and Genesis 10:21 refers ambiguously to Shem as ""brother of Japheth the elder,"" which could mean that either is the eldest. Most modern writers accept Shem-Ham-Japheth as reflecting birth order, but this is not always the case: Moses and Rachel also appear at the head of such lists despite explicit descriptions of them as younger siblings. Following the"
"expels the man and woman from the garden, lest they eat of the Tree of Life and become immortal. The chiastic structure of the death oracle given to Adam in 3:19 forms a link between man's creation from ""dust"" (2:7) to the ""return"" of his beginnings. Genesis 4 deals with the birth of Adam's sons Cain and Abel and the story of the first murder, followed by the birth of a third son, Seth. Genesis 5, the Book of the Generations of Adam, lists the descendants of Adam from Seth to Noah with their ages at the birth of their"
"New Testament. One line spoken by Jesus in the film (""I make all things new."") is found in the Book of Revelation. The film also refers to the Tanakh (also known as the Old Testament). The film begins with an epigraph from the Fourth Song of the Suffering Servant from Isaiah. In the opening scene set in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus crushes a serpent's head in direct visual allusion to Genesis 3:15. Throughout the film, Jesus quotes from the Psalms, beyond the instances recorded in the New Testament. Many of the depictions in the film deliberately mirror traditional representations"
"Though it wasn't the first Gospel written, the Gospel of Matthew is traditionally placed as the first book of the New Testament, so these are textually the first words spoken by Jesus in the entire Bible. However they are not very well known or much quoted. Scholars have paid considerable attention to them, mainly because of their vagueness. As it was the first Gospel that was written according to general scholarship, the first recorded words of Jesus are actually in Mark 1:15: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. So mετανοείτε, and believe in"
"the sons of Noah following the Flood, beginning with the descendants of Japheth: The Book of Genesis is the first of the five books of the Torah, that accounts of Israel's origins as a people. Scholars increasingly see this as a product of the Achaemenid Empire (probably 450-350 BCE), although some would place its production in the Hellenistic period (333-164 BCE) or even the Hasmonean dynasty (140–37 BCE). The story of Japheth and his brothers may be even more recent: almost none of the persons, places and stories in the first eleven chapters of Genesis (called the Primeval history) are"
"the new world is as sinful as the old, God has resolved never again to destroy the world by flood, and the History ends with Terah, the father of Abraham, from whom will descend God's chosen people, the Israelites. Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as ""mankind""; subsequently in Genesis 2-3 it carries the definite article ""ha"", equivalent to English ""the"", indicating that this is ""the man"". In these chapters God fashions ""the man"" (""ha adam"") from earth (""adamah""), breathes life into his nostrils,"