SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:4
¶ Estos son los orígenes de los cielos y de la tierra cuando fueron creados, el día que el SEÑOR Dios hizo la tierra y los cielos,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4
Verse 4. In the day that the Lord God made, &c.] The word hwhy Yehovah is for the first time mentioned here. What it signifies see on Exod. xxxiv. 5, 6. Wherever this word occurs in the sacred writings we translate it LORD, which word is, through respect and reverence, always printed in capitals. Though our English term Lord does not give the particular meaning of the original word, yet it conveys a strong and noble sense. Lord is a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon [A.S.], Hlaford, afterwards written [A.S.] Loverd, and lastly Lord, from [A.S.] bread; hence our word loaf, and [A.S.] ford, to supply, to give out. The word, therefore, implies the giver of bread, i.e., he who deals out all the necessaries of life. Our ancient English noblemen were accustomed to keep a continual open house, where all their vassals, and all strangers, had full liberty to enter and eat as much as they would; and hence those noblemen had the honourable name of lords, i.e., the dispensers of bread. There are about three of the ancient nobility who still keep up this honourable custom, from which the very name of their nobility is derived. We have already seen, ver. 1, with what judgment our Saxon ancestors expressed Deus, the Supreme Being, by the term God; and we see the same judgment consulted by their use of the term Lord to express the word Dominus, by which terms the Vulgate version, which they used, expresses Elohim and Jehovah, which we translate LORD GOD. GOD is the good Being, and LORD is the dispenser of bread, the giver of every good and perfect gift, who liberally affords the bread that perisheth to every man, and has amply provided the bread that endures unto eternal life for every human soul. With what propriety then does this word apply to the Lord Jesus, who is emphatically called the bread of life; the bread of God which cometh down from heaven, and which is given for the life of the world! John vi. 33, 48, 51. What a pity that this most impressive and instructive meaning of a word in such general use were not more extensively known, and more particularly regarded! See the postscript to the general preface. I know that Mr. H. Tooke has endeavoured to render this derivation contemptible; but this has little weight with me. I have traced it through the most accredited writers in Saxony and on Saxon affairs, and I am satisfied that this and this only, is its proper etymology and derivation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-7 - Here is a name given to the Creator, "Jehovah." Where the word "LORD is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original it is "Jehovah." Jehovah is that name of God, which denotes that he alon has his being of himself, and that he gives being to all creatures an things. Further notice is taken of plants and herbs, because they wer made and appointed to be food for man. The earth did not bring fort its fruits of itself: this was done by Almighty power. Thus grace in the soul grows not of itself in nature's soil, but is the work of God Rain also is the gift of God; it came not till the Lord God caused it Though God works by means, yet when he pleases he can do his own wor without them; and though we must not tempt God in the neglect of means we must trust God, both in the use and in the want of means. Some wa or other, God will water the plants of his own planting. Divine grac comes down like the dew, and waters the church without noise. Man wa made of the small dust, such as is on the surface of the earth. The soul was not made of the earth, as the body: pity then that it shoul cleave to the earth, and mind earthly things. To God we must shortl give an account, how we have employed these souls; and if it be foun that we have lost them, though it were to gain the world, we are undon for ever! Fools despise their own souls, by caring for their bodie before their souls.
Original Hebrew
אלה 428 תולדות 8435 השׁמים 8064 והארץ 776 בהבראם 1254 ביום 3117 עשׂות 6213 יהוה 3068 אלהים 430 ארץ 776 ושׁמים׃ 8064
