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Nor is the difference in both records less obvious in regard to the conception , of their leading ideas , and the manner in which they are conveyed to the reader . The record under the
name Jehovah represents the decrees of the Almighty as being * formed in certain musings or soliloquies held with himself , whereas the other relates them in the style of conversations which pass between God and Noah Thus , according to the former , God alone is grieved at the corrupt state
of the earth , and , in a soliloquy , is made to declare his resolve of destroying the depraved race of man ; vide ch . vi . 6 , 7 ' " ¦ Jehovah was grieved , and repented that he had created man on the earth , and said to himself , I will destroy man , whom I have created , from off the face of the earth ; " but in the latter record his decree is
announced in an address , coupled with a promise to Noah : " God said unto Noah , The end of all flesh approaches , " &c . At the close of the narrative of the flood , it was evidently the object of both records to state that c < from
that period no similar deluge had occurred ; " accordingly , the record bearing the name Jehovah states the resolve of God not to destroy the earth again by means of a flood , in a
soliloquy ; see ch . viii . 21 , 22 : ' * Jehovah said to himself , I will not again curse the ground on account of man , ' &c . ; whereas the record of Elohim
conveys the same intelligence in an address to Noah , to which a promise is moreover attached ; see ch . ix . 8 , U , et seq . : " God spake unto Noah and to his sons : I give you my promise , that from henceforward all that lives shall not any more be destroyed by a flood ; " and in both cases the
promise so made to Noah is styled a nni ; see ch . vi . 18 ; ix . 9 , 11 , et aeq . The former record speaks of the family of Noah generally , and without enumerating the individuals belonging to it b y name ; see ch . vii . 1 , " Noah and all his house ; " again , ch . vii . 7
* ' Noah and his sons ; " whilst the latter very particularly specifies their names , " Noah , Shem , Ham , and Japhet ; " see ch . vi . 10 , and vii . 13 . Although the great difference ex-$£ tia | j in point of style between both ^ ecords , cannot "be so easily proved in W $ of the passages already quoted as
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in the narrative of the deluge , from the' repetitions contained in the former , being less ample than in the latter , yet so much is sufficientl y obvious that , throughout the whole book of Genesis , each record manifests a strong predilection for certain expressions and a peculiar train of ideas .
The record adhering to the name of Elohim styles a great nation " a nation out of which kings are to arise •" see ch . xvii . 6 , 16 ; xxxv . 11 ; which expression is not to be found in the other . Again , the record bearing the name of Jehovah uniformly adopts , in reference to the population of the
globe , the verb y *\ & ; see ch . ix . 19 ; x . 18 ; xi . 4 , 8 , 9 ; and in allusion to ' its increase , that of y ^ D ; see c h . xxviii . 14 ; xxx . 30 , 43 ; whereas neither expression is to be found in the record of Elohim . The former represents God as " coming down in order to act ; " see ch . xi . 5 ; xviii . 21 ; and the sins of mortals as " crviner to
him ; " see ch . iv . 10 ; xviii . 20 , 21 ; xix . 13 ; nay , it also states "Jehovah as closing up the wombs" of certain barren women ; see ch . xvu 2 ; xx . 18 ; whereas no such ideas occur in the latter . To the record of Jehovah belongs exclusivel y the assertion , that < c in Abraham all the families or
nations of the earth shall be blessed ;" see ch . xii . 3 ; xxvi . 4 ; xxviii . 14 ; and in it alone are " oaths" expressed b y the phrase "pi nnn "P Qittf ; see ch . xxiv . 2 ; xivii . 29 . ( See below the attempt made by me to separate both records . ) *
( To be continued . ) * This discrepancy , in point of expression and ideas , is also to be found in those passages in which future prosperity , and more particularly a numerous and powerful posterity and the possession of Palestine is promised , and in various oracles relating thereto . See in
the record of Elohim , Gen . xvii . 1—11 , 15—23 ; xxviii . 3 , 4 ; xxxv . 9—14 ; xlviii , 3 , 4 ; comp . xxi . 12—14 , xlvi . 2 , 3 , 1 . 24 ; and in the record under the name Jehovah , ch . xii . 1—4 , 7 ; xiii . 14—18 ; xv . 4—9 , 18—21 ; xvi . 10—13 ; xviii . 18 , 19 ; xxii . 15—19 ; xxiv . 7 ; xxvi . 2
—6 , 24 ; xxviii . 13—16 ; xxxii . 10 , 13 ; compare J . F . W . MSller oil the difference of style iu particular passages in the two principal documents of the book of Genesis , Gottingen , 1792 , 8 vo . —^ o »»
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§ 40 Eichhorn ' t Account of the Book of Genesis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/20/
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