• Gen 1:1-Gen 2:4a - first biblical account of creation
  • See "Genesis & creation" (Bible dictionary explanation) at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/gen.htm.
• Gen 1:1,2
• Gen 1:1,2
• To further explore these two verses, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/versecom/gen01v01.htm, which addresses the following topics:
• Gen 1:1 - in the beginning - explanation and commentary
• Gen 1:1 - beginning <Strong's #7225> - explanation
• Gen 1:1 - cross-references
• Gen 1:1,2 - cross-references
• Gen 1:2 - cross-references
• Gen 1:2 - commentary
• Gen 1:3 - let there be light
• Psa 33:9
• Heb 11:3
• Isa 45:7
• S&H 255:3
• S&H 503:18
• S&H 556:19
• Mis 388:3
• '02 20:12
• Po 1:10
• Po 7:3
• Gen 1:26,27
• To further explore these two verses, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/versecom/gen01v26.htm, which addresses the following topics:
• Gen 1:26 - us and our (plural references to God)
• Gen 1:26 - likeness or similitude - Hebrew: demuth <Strong's #01823>
• Gen 1:26 - dominion
• Gen 1:26,27 - man or human beings or humankind or humans - Hebrew: adam <Strong's Hebrew #0120>
• Gen 1:26,27 - image (or: resemblance or likeness) - Hebrew: tselem <Strong's #06754>
• Gen 1:26,27 - Paul's 1Co 15:45-49 commentary relating to Gen 1 & 2
• Gen 1:27 - male and female
• Gen 1:28 - dominion
• To explore additional references, browse "Dominion" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/d.htm#dominion.
• Gen 1:31
• Mat 19:17
• 1Ti 4:4
• S&H 518:24-6
• S&H 525:17
• My 178:13 The

• Gen 2:2,3 - day of rest (sabbath)
• Exo 4:8-11
• Exo 23:12
• Exo 31:13
• Exo 34:21
• Lev 19:3
• Lev 23:3
• Deu 5:12-15
• Gen 2:4b-Gen 3:24 - second biblical account of creation, where God is known in the Hebrew text as Yahweh Elohim, which in English is typically translated "Jehovah God" or "Lord God."
  • See "Genesis & creation" (Bible dictionary explanation) at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/gen.htm.
  • See "Evolution and the Bible's accounts of creation" (BibleTexts.com response) at http://www.bibletexts.com/qa/qa056.htm.
  • See "the fall" (BibleTexts.com & Bible dictionary explanation) at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/fall.htm.
• Gen 2:4b
• KJV wording:
• "Lord God"
• Clarified wording that appears in other Bible versions owned and used by Mary Baker Eddy
• ASV : "Jehovah God"
• The same clarified wording that appears in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy
• S&H: "Lord God [Jehovah God]" (S&H 543:31)
• For some of Mary Baker Eddy's other quotes and paraphrases from non-KJV translations of the Bible, see Section 3 of http://www.bibletexts.com/bl-ver.htm.
• Original Hebrew Old Testament (upon which the above corrections are based)
• Yahweh <03068> Elohim <0430>
• Gen 2:5
• Mis 26:11
• Hea 19:14
• Gen 2:6
• S&H 521:21
• S&H 546:12
• Mis 30:28
• Gen 2:7 - man (Hebrew: adam, Strong's #0120) - This is the identical Hebrew word translated as "man" or "human beings" in Gen 1:26,27 and other parts of the Old Testament; and it is the also the identical Hebrew word translated as Adam throughout Genesis 2 and in other parts of the Old Testament..
• Paul, in 1Co 15:45-49, contrasts the Genesis 2 man with the Christly man. The Genesis 2 man is described as as "physical," "earthly" and "of the dust;" and it describes the Christly man as "spiritual" and as "of heaven." Paul leads up to his description of the victory in Christ (see 1Co 15:57), when he writes, "Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven." (Paul says much the same in Rom 8:29 and 2Co 3:18.) This is consistent with some pre-Nicene (pre-325 A.D.) Christian emphasis on man as the image of God, as pronounced in Genesis 1. For examples, see:
  • Clement of Alexandria's words at http://www.bibletexts.com/versecom/gen01v26.htm#clement
  • Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels (NY: Random House, 2003), especially pages 40-45, 54-58, 95-96 (cf, 66, 152, 177-178), which quotes and describes the debate in early Christianity regarding the meaning of man being made in the image of God. The so-called orthodox church organized and enforced by Constantine imposed the view that the image of God referred only to Christ and that it applied to humanity only through baptism into Christ. That church also taught that it was "impossible, even blasphemous" to try to emulate Christ (page 178). Other early Christians who had a different view were later condemned by the so-called "orthodox" church as heretics. Explaining what those other early Christians taught, Elaine Pagels writes:

  ...The key to interpreting Thomas suggest instead that everyone, in creation, receives the innate capacity to know God. (Page 46.)

  ...According to both the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John, Jesus reveals that the kingdom of God, which many believers, including Mark, expect in the future, not only is '"coming" but is already here -- an immediate and continuing spiritual reality. (Page 49. See also Luk 17:20,21, and other early gospels, including the Gospel of Mary Magdalene 8:15-20.)

  ...After dismissing those who expect the future coming of the kingdom of God, as countless Christians have always done and still do, Thomas's Jesus declares that

  the kingdom is inside you, and outside you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will see that it is you who are the children of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty, and it is you are are that poverty. (Page 54 and Tho 3.)

  ...According to Genesis, "in the beginning" there was , first of all, the primordial light. For Thomas this means that in creating "adam [humankind] in his image," as Genesis 1:26 says, God created us in the image of the primordial light. Like many other readers of Genesis, then and now, Thomas suggests that what appeared in the primordial light was "a human being, very marvelous," a being of radiant light, the prototype of the human Adam [i.e., "man," the translation of the Hebrew word adam used in Gen 1:26], whom God created on the sixth day. This "light Adam," although human in form, is simultaneously, in some mysterious way, also divine. Thus Jesus suggests here that we have spiritual resources within us precisely because we are made "in the image of God." Irenaeus, the Christian bishop of Lyons (c. 180) warns his flock to despise "heretics" who speak like this... What Irenaeus here dismisses as heretical later became a central theme of Jewish mystical tradition -- that the "image of God" is hidden within each of us secretly linking God and all humankind.

  Thus Thomas's Jesus tells his disciples that not only he comes forth from divine light but so do we all... (Page 55.)

• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture [ACCS], Old Testament I, Genesis I-II (edited by Andrew Louth, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001), pages 27-37, which quotes the prevailing church view of the meaning of man being made in the image of God.
• To explore the correlation of Gen 1:26,27 with 1Co 15:45-49, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm. The contents of this article includes:
1. Soul defined from its Hebrew word nephesh
2. Two accounts of the creation of man/woman -- man/woman as originating from the dust/earth (Gen 2:7) versus man/woman as the image of God (Gen 1:26,27)
3. Two types of man/woman -- earthly, physical man/woman of the dust versus spiritual, heavenly man/woman (1Co 15:45-47)
• Gen 2:7 - KJV wording: dust - correct translation: soil (or: dirt)
• To read commentary on whether "dust" or "soil" is the most appropriate term for Gen 2:7, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/qa/qa039.htm.
• Gen 2:7 - the breath of life
• In contrast with "the breath of life" of Gen 2:7 is "the Spirit of God," which can also be translated as the wind of God or the breath of God. To explore "the Spirit of God," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/holyspirit.htm.
• Gen 2:7
• Gen 3:19
• Job 10:9
• Job 33:4
• Psa 104:29,30
• 1Co 15:45,47
• Gen 2:9
• S&H 165:1
• S&H 214:21
• S&H 426:11
• S&H 525:30
• S&H 526:14
• S&H 527:6-20
• S&H 538:11-18
• Un 3:16
• Gen 2:10-14 - four rivers flowing out of Eden:
  • 1 - Pishon River (KJV: Pison)
    • Text: "11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there." (NRSV)
    • Description at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/pishon.htm
    • Gen 2:11-12 is the only biblical reference to the Pishon River.
    • S&H 593:1
  • 2 - Gihon River
    • Text: "13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush." (NRSV)
    • Description at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/gihon.htm
    • Gen 2:13
    • 1Ki 1:33,38,45
    • 2Ch 32:30
    • 2Ch 33:14
    • S&H 587:3
  • 3 - Tigris River (KJV: Hiddekel)
    • Text: "14 The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria..." (NRSV)
    • Description at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/tigris.htm
    • Gen 2:14
    • Dan 10:4
    • S&H 588:5
  • 4 - Euphrates River
    • Text: "14 ...And the fourth river is the Euphrates." (NRSV)
    • Description at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/euphrates.htm
    • Gen 2:14
    • Gen 15:18
    • Deu 1:7
    • Deu 11:24
    • Jos 1:4
    • 2Sa 8:3
    • 2Ki 23:29
    • 2Ki 24:7
    • 2Ch 5:9
    • 1Ch 18:3
    • 2Ch 35:20
    • Jer 13:4-7
    • Jer 46:2,6,10
    • Jer 51:63
    • Rev 9:14
    • Rev 16:12
    • S&H 585:16
• Gen 2:17
• Rom 6:23
• S&H 196:31
• S&H 220:26
• S&H 277:2-5
• S&H 481:7
• S&H 527:6-20
• S&H 532:5
• S&H 579:15
• Gen 2:19
• S&H 527:21
• Gen 2:21
• Mis 243:32
• Hea 17:16
• Gen 2:21,22
• S&H 528:9-27

• Gen 3:1-24 - the fall of and curse on Adam and Eve
• Rom 6:16
• See "the fall" (BibleTexts.com & Bible dictionary explanation) at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/fall.htm.
• See "Genesis & creation" (Bible dictionary explanation) at http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/gen.htm.
• Gen 3:1-5 - the serpent refers to "God" rather than "the Lord God"
• Elohim is the Hebrew word translated as "God" in the Gen 2 and Gen 3, but wherever it does occur in Gen 2 and Gen 3, it is always used within the combined term Yahweh Elohim (translated in the KJV as "the Lord God"). The only exception to this is in the dialog between the serpent and the woman in Gen 3:1-5. There the serpent begins the misrepresentation of Elohim (God), which is correctly translated as simply "God" rather than "Lord God," "Yahweh God," or "Jehovah God."
• Gen 3:1
• Rev 12:9
• Rev 20:2
• S&H 564:32
• Mis 191:4
• Un 21:10
• Gen 3:1-3
• S&H 529:13
• Gen 3:2
• Gen 2:16
• Gen 3:3
• Gen 2:17
• Gen 3:4
• Joh 8:44
• Gen 3:4,5
• S&H 530:13
• Gen 3:5
• S&H 280:21
• S&H 307:5
• S&H 541:24
• S&H 544:21
• S&H 587:15
• Mis 57:18
• Mis 196:7
• Ret 69:9
• Un 44:20
• Gen 3:6
• Jam 1:14,15
• 1Ti 2:14
• Gen 3:9
• KJV wording: Adam (Hebrew: adam, Strong's Hebrew #0120) - NRSV, TEV, and others translation: the man (Hebrew: adam, Strong's Hebrew #0120)
• The Hebrew word adam is translated as "man" or "human beings" in Gen 1:26,27 and in other verses of the Old Testament; and it translated as" Adam" throughout Genesis 2 and in other verses of the Old Testament. For further details, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/heb-adam.htm.
• S&H 181:21
• S&H 308:5
• Mis 179:19
• Mis 332:12
• My 33:8
• Gen 3:9,10
• S&H 532:13-4
• Gen 3:11,12
• S&H 533:5-25
• Gen 3:13
• 2Co 11:3
• S&H 533:26
• Gen 3:14,15
• S&H 534:8
• Gen 3:15
• Gen 3:16-19
• Gen 8:21,22
• Job 31:38,39
• S&H 535:6,19
• S&H 557:18
• Mis 57:15
• Un 45:3
• Gen 3:16
  • S&H 535:6
  • S&H 557:18
  • Mis 57:15
• Gen 3:17
  • Gen 8:21,22
  • Job 31:38,39
• Gen 3:17-19
  • S&H 535:19
    

• Gen 4:1-25 - Cain and Abel
  • Mat 23:34,35
  • Luk 11:49-51
  • Heb 11:4
  • Heb 12:24
  • 1Jo 3:11,12
  • Jud 1:11
  • S&H 89:27
  • S&H 538:23-7
  • S&H 540:25-543:16
  • S&H 579:8
  • No 34:18-28

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• Gen 6:3
• KJV wording:
  • "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh"
• KJV wording <Strong's #> - needing clarification/correction in its translation:
  • "And the LORD <03068> said <0559>, My spirit <07307> shall not always <05769> strive <01777> with man <0120>, for that he also <07683> [is] flesh <01320>:"
• Clarified/corrected wording that appears in other Bible versions owned and used by Mary Baker Eddy
  • Smith's Bible Dictionary: "And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not forever rule [or be humbled] in men, seeing that they are [or, in their error they are] but flesh."
    • [See http://www.bibletexts.com/workshops/7-bible-resources-in-early-csrr.htm#sbd to read about Mrs. Eddy's appreciation of Smith's Bible Dictionary.]
  • Rotherham: "And Yahweh said -- My spirit shall not rule in man to times age-abiding, for that [[he also]] is flesh --..."
• The same clarified/corrected wording that appears in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy
  • S&H: In Smith's Bible Dictionary it is said: "The spiritual interpretation of Scripture must rest upon both the literal and moral;" and in the learned article on Noah in the same work, the familiar text, Genesis vi. 3, "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh," is quoted as follows, from the original Hebrew: "And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not forever rule [or be humbled] in men, seeing that they are [or, in their error they are] but flesh." Here the original text declares plainly the spiritual fact of being, even man's eternal and harmonious existence as image, idea, instead of matter (however transcendental such a thought appears), and avers that this fact is not forever to be humbled by the belief that man is flesh and matter, for according to that error man is mortal. (S&H 320:8)
  • To explore some of Mary Baker Eddy's other quotes and paraphrases from non-KJV translations of the Bible, see http://www.bibletexts.com/bl-ver.htm#3.
• Original Hebrew Old Testament word from which the KJV word "strive" is translated (upon which the above correction/clarification is based)
  • diyn <1777>
• Some modern versions
  • Anchor Bible: Genesis (page 44) - "Then Yahweh said, "My spirit shall not shield man forever, since he is but flesh..."
  • NAB - "Then the Lord said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh..."
  • NRSV - "Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh;..."
  • Old Testament Library - "Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh..."
  • REB - "But the Lord said, 'My spirit will not remain in a human being for ever; because he is mortal flesh..."
  • TEV: The Wickedness of Mankind - Gen 6:1 When the human race had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born, 2 some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked. 3 Then the Lord said, “I will not allow people to live for ever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than a hundred and twenty years.” 4 In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.
• Some commentary
  • Anchor Bible: Genesis (by E.A. Speiser, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964, page 44): "3. shield. The traditional "abide in" is a guess lacking any linguistic support..."
  • A Handbook on Genesis (by William D. Reyburn and Euan McG. Fry, NY: United Bible Societies, 1997, page 144): "Shall not abide translates a word that occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament, and so its meaning is somewhat uncertain. "Abide" and "remain" have been used traditionally and seem to fit the context well."

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• Gen 9:20-27 - Noah and his 3 sons
• The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, & Roland E. Murphy, Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, 1990) comments:
  

  The Character of the Sons of Noah (9:18-29) [J]). The character of the three sons is sketched in the episode of Noah's drunkenness.

  20-23. The fault here is not with Noah -- as the first cultivator of the grape he could not have known the intoxicating quality of wine -- but with Ham, who looked on his father's nakedness and told his two brothers. In Lev 20:17-21, to "uncover the nakedness" means to have sexual relations, but Ham's act, does not imply sexual relations. The act and the telling of it imply contempt for one's father, a serious offense. Canaan's offense prefigures the sexual license of the later Canaanites, against which Israel is repeatedly warned. Shem and Japheth respectfully back into the tent (to avoid looking on their father) and cover him with a cloak.

  24-27. The point of the story is the curse laid on Ham, who is the father of Canaan (10:6) and the blessings upon Shem and Japheth. Hinted at is the later occupation of Canaan by Israel, the descendant of Shem.

• For Bible dictionary descriptions of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, browse the following:
  • Noah - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/noah.htm
  • Shem - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/shem.htm
  • Ham - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/ham.htm
  • Japheth - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/japheth.htm

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• Gen 16:1-16 - Hagar and Ishmael
  • For descriptions of this mother and her son, see:
    • Hagar: http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/hagar.htm
    • Ismael: http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/ishmael.htm.

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• Gen 18:7 - KJV wording: HASTED - modern translation: hastened

• Gen 19:1-17 - Sodom
• Mat 10:14,15
• Mat 11:20-24
• Mar 6:11,12
• Luk 10:12-16
• Luk 17:28-30
• Rom 9:29-32
• 2Pe 2:6-10
• Jude 1:7,8
• Rev 11:7,8
• No 7:10-15

• Gen 20:1-14 - morals and ethics
  • To further explore moral and ethical issues addressed in the Bible, including adultery, bigamy, and polygamy, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/morals-ethics.htm.

• Gen 21:9-21 - Hagar and Ishmael
  • For descriptions of this mother and her son, see:
    • Hagar: http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/hagar.htm
    • Ismael: http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/ishmael.htm.
• Gen 21:18 - Ishmael
  • Gerhard Von Rad (The Old Testament Library: Genesis, Revised Edition, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1972, page 234) comments:

  [Gen 21:17-20] ...God's protecting hand will be over Ishmael from now on. But his way of life became different from that of the patriarchs. He became a bowman, i.e., he lived by hunting and plunder. Expressed in modern times, he became the ancestor of the Bedouins, the camel-nomads. His dwelling place in the almost sterile steppe between Palestine and Egypt determined his way of life. Also, the fact that he married an Egyptian woman indicates how far he had gone from the regulations of his father's house.

• Michael D. Coogan (The Oxford Companion to the Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, page 329) comments:

  In Muslim tradition, the Arabs trace their ancestry back to Abraham through Ishmael. Because Ishmael was circumcised (Gen. 17.25), so are most Muslims. And, analogous to Paul's reversal of the figures of Isaac and Ishmael (Gal. 4.24-26), Muslim tradition makes Ishmael rather than Isaac, the son Abraham was commanded to sacrifice.

• To read an answer to the question from a reader, "Is the noble Prophet Muhammed mentioned in the Bible or referred to anywhere in the text of the Bible?," see http://www.bibletexts.com/qa/qa086.htm.
• See also a topical index on "the practice of religion in the Middle East today" at http://bibletexts.com/topics/christianity-in-middle-east.htm.
• Just as Hagar and Ishmael were refugees, my dear wife and her family were also refugees. After escaping to a new country and with many challenges confronting them, they found comfort in the following words of Mary Baker Eddy (Message for 1902, page 11:2):

  Our heavenly Father never destined mortals who seek for a better country to wander on the shores of time disappointed travellers, tossed to and fro by adverse circumstances, inevitably subject to sin, disease, and death. Divine Love waits and pleads to save mankind -- and awaits with warrant and welcome, grace and glory, the earth-weary and heavy-laden who find and point the path to heaven.

• Gen 21:26 - KJV wording: WOT - modern translation: know

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• Gen 23:10 - KJV wording: AUDIENCE - modern translation: hearing
• Gen 23:13 - KJV wording: AUDIENCE - modern translation: hearing
• Gen 23:16 - KJV wording: AUDIENCE - modern translation: hearing

• Gen 24:21 - KJV wording: WIT - modern translation: know
• Gen 24:22 - KJV wording: EARRING - modern translation: ring
• Gen 24:30 - KJV wording: EARRING - modern translation: ring
• Gen 24:47 - KJV wording: EARRING - modern translation: ring

• Gen 25:21 - KJV wording: WAS ENTREATED OF - modern translation: granted his prayer
• Gen 25:27 - KJV wording: CUNNING - modern translation: skilful
• Gen 25:27 - KJV wording: PLAIN - modern translation: quiet
• Gen 25:29 - KJV wording: SOD - modern translation: boiled

• Gen 26:10 - KJV wording: LIGHTLY - modern translation: easily
• Gen 26:31 - KJV wording: BETIMES - modern translation: early

• Gen 27:37 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain

• Gen 28:11 - KJV wording: LIGHTED UPON - modern translation: came to
• Gen 28:11 - KJV wording: TARRIED - modern translation: stayed
• Gen 28:13 - KJV wording: SEED - modern translation: descendants
• Gen 28:15 - KJV wording: KEEP - modern translation: watch over {or: preserve}

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• Gen 30:37 - KJV wording: PILLED - modern translation: peeled
• Gen 30:38 - KJV wording: PILLED - modern translation: peeled

• Gen 31:27 - KJV wording: TABRET(S) - modern translation: timbrel(s)
• Gen 31:34 - KJV wording: FURNITURE - modern translation: saddle

• Gen 32:15 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 32:26-29
• S&H 308:16-309:23
• S&H 589:4
• Gen 32:28 - KJV wording: POWER <08280> - modern translation: striven (or: struggled)
• Gen 32:31 - KJV wording: HALTED - modern translation: limped

• Gen 33:14 - KJV wording: SOFTLY - modern translation: gently

• Gen 34:19 - KJV wording: HONORABLE - modern translation: honored
• Gen 34:27 - KJV wording: SPOILED - modern translation: plundered
• Gen 34:29 - KJV wording: SPOILED - modern translation: plundered

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• Gen 36:15 - KJV wording: DUKE(S) - modern translation: chief(s)
• Gen 36:29 - KJV wording: DUKE(S) - modern translation: chief(s)
• Gen 36:40 - KJV wording: DUKE(S) - modern translation: chief(s)

• Gen 37:11 - KJV wording: OBSERVED - modern translation: kept

• Gen 38:1-30 - Tamar
  • To read Bible dictionary descriptions of story of Tamar, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/tamar.htm
  • Note also that Tamar (of Judah) is listed in Matthew (Mat 1:3) as one the ancestors of Jesus.
• Gen 38:6-26 - Levirate marriage obligation unfulfilled
  • Deu 25:5-10
  • To explore the Jewish practice of levirate marriage (a brother's obligation to marry the childless widow of a dead brother), browse http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/marriage.htm#levirate-marriage.

  • To explore the relationship between levirate marriage and polygamy and bigamy, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/qa/qa100.htm.

• Gen 39:8 - KJV wording: WOTTETH - modern translation: knoweth
• Gen 39:1-12 - Joseph's refusal of adultery with Potiphar's wife
• To explore "Adultery: the physical act, the thought, and divorce & remarriage -- the three forms of adultery described by Jesus in the gospels," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/adultery.htm.
• To read the text of the 7th commandment ("Do not commit adultery") from 3 different Bible versions and explore additional references, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/10commandments-texts.htm#7.
• To explore other issues regarding marriage, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/marriage.htm.
• Gen 39:10 - or to be with her

• William D. Reyburn and Euan McG. Fry (A Handbook on Genesis, NY: United Bible Societies, 1997, pages 894-895) comment:

  Or to be with her is omitted in some ancient versions. Note TEV. Most modern versions keep this phrase. NEB/REB have "or be in her company." A suggested model translation for verse 10 is "Although she insisted day after day that Joseph sleep with her or keep her company, he refused to pay any attention to her."

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• Gen 41:2 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:3 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:4 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:18 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:19 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:20 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:26 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:27 - KJV wording: KINE - modern translation: cows
• Gen 41:35 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 41:49 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 41:57 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain

• Gen 42:1 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 42:2 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 42:3 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 42:5 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 42:19 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 42:25 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 42:26 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain

• Gen 43:2 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 43:30 - KJV wording: BOWELS - modern translation: heart

• Gen 44:2 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Gen 44:15 - KJV wording: WOT - modern translation: know

• Gen 45:6 - KJV wording: EAR(ED)(ING) - modern translation: plow(ed)(ing)
• Gen 45:23 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain

• Gen 46:31 - KJV wording: SHOW - modern translation: tell

• Gen 47:14 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain