Article November 2, 1935 ISSUE

Bible Notes

"Every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed" (Gen. 1:29)—Moffatt appears to clarify the sense of the passage by translating: "every tree with seed in its fruit."

"Man became a living soul" (Gen. 2:7)—The term "nephesh," here rendered "soul," is used in a wide variety of senses in Hebrew, being often employed to denote "life or soul," while in other passages it signifies rather "self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, passion" (Brown, Driver, Briggs: Hebrew Lexicon, p. 659). Moffatt has: "this was how man became a living being."

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