21. What did God create? What kind of whales did God create? What did God do to the whales? What did God make besides the whales? What living creatures did God create? What brought forth the living creatures? What did the waters bring forth? In what manner did the waters bring forth the living creatures? After what? What brought forth the winged fowl? What did God see? What was good?

22. And God (1) blessed them, saying, (2) Be fruitful and (3) multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let (4) fowl (5) multiply in the earth. 1. Pronounced them good and happy.-2. Increase.-3. Become many. 4. The birds.-5. Become numerous.

22. What did God do to them? Who blessed them? What did God say to them? What were the living creatures and fowls to be? What were they to be besides being fruitful? What were the fishes to fill? What waters were they to fill? What were the fowls to do? Where were the fowls to multiply?

23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

23. What day of the creation was this? What were the fifth day? What did God do on the fifth day?

24. And God said, Let the earth (1) bring forth the living (2) creature after his kind, (3) cattle, and (4) creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

1. Produced.-2. Animal.-3. Four footed beasts of the cattle sort.4. Animals that creep on the ground.

24. What did God say? What was the earth to bring forth? What kind of creature was the earth to bring forth? What was to bring forth the living creature? What kind of living creatures was the earth to bring forth? What was to bring forth cattle? What was the earth to bring forth besides cattle? What beast was the earth to bring forth? What was so?

25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

25. What did God make?

What beasts did God

make? What did God do to the cattle?

What did

What

God make besides the beasts and the cattle? Where do these creatures creep? What did God see? was good

26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have (1) dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the (2) fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

1. Rule, or government.-2. Birds.

26. What did God say about the making of man? Who were to make man? In what manner was the blessed Trinity to make man? In whose image was man to be made? After what was man to be made? What was man to have? Over what was man to have dominion? Who was to have dominion over the fish? Over what fish? What was he to have over the fowls? Over what fowls? Over what, besides the fish and the fowls, was man to have dominion? Over all what? Who was to have dominion over every creeping thing? Over what creeping thing?

27. So God (1) created man in his own (2) image; in the image of God created he him; (3) male and (4) female created he them.

1. Formed.-2. Likeness.-3. Man.-4. Woman.

27. What did God do to man? In what manner, lid God create man? In whose image was man created? Who was created in the image or likeness of God? How many sexes did God make? What are these sexes? Who were created male and female?

28. And God (1) blessed them; and God said unto them, (2) Be fruitful and (3) multiply, and (4) replenish the (5) earth, and (6) subdue it; and have (7) dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the (8) fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1. Pronounced them happy.-2. Increase.-3. Become many.-4. Fill. -5. World.-6. Bring it under subjection.-7. Power and authority.-8. Birds.

29. What did God do? Whom did God bless? Who blessed man? What did God bid man be? What was he to replenish? What was man to do to the earth? What was to be subdued? Who was to subdue the earth? Over what was man to have

dominion? Who was to have dominion over the creatures? What fish? What fowl? What living thing? Upon what did they move?

29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every (1) herb (2) bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree (3) yielding seed; to you it shall be for (4) meat. 1. Plant, or vegetable.-2. Producing its own.-3. Producing.-4. Food,

29. What did God say? What had God given to man? What herbs did God give? What did the herb bear? To whom did God give every tree? What is here said of the trees? What did the trees yield?, For what was the herbs and trees given to man? What was to be for meat? To whom were the herbs and trees to be for meat?

30. And to (1) every beast of the earth, and to (1) every (2) fowl of the air, and to (1) every (3) thing that creepeth upon the (4) earth, (5) wherein there is life, I have given every green (6) herb for meat and it

was so.

1. Each individual.-2. Bird.-3. Creature.-4. Ground.-5. In which. -6. Vegetable and plant.

30. To whom besides man, were the herbs and trees given for meat? To what beasts? To what besides the beasts? To what fowls? To what besides the beasts and fowls? Where did they creep? What was in them? What did God give to all these creatures? Who gave them every green herb? For what did God give the creatures every green herb? What was given them for meat?

31. And God (1) saw every thing that he had (2) made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 1. Looked upon, and beheld.-2. Created and formed.

81. What did God see? Who had made these things? What did God see about every thing which he had made? What was very good? What day of the creation was this? What were the sixth day? What did God do on the sixth day?

LESSONS.

9. The waters at the command of God brought forth abundantly, ver. 21.-We should never do our duties grudgingly, but always abound in the work of God.

10. God blessed his creatures, ver. 22.-We should never be unkind or cruel to animals.

11. God made all the animals, ver. 25.—We should acknowledge God's goodness in every benefit we enjoy from the substance or service of animals.

12. Man was made after the image of God, ver. 27. -We should earnestly desire to be again renewed after the image of God.

13. God blessed man, ver. 28.-We should seek, as our chief good, the approbation and the blessing of God, through Jesus Christ.

14. It was God who gave man dominion over the creatures, ver. 28.-We should in all things acknowledge God's supreme rule, and never abuse that authority which he has given us.

15. God gave the herbs and trees for food, ver. 29.We should be temperate in our food, and glorify God in our eating and drinking.

16. God made man and all things very good, ver. 31. -We should hate and forsake sin, which has made us miserable, and all things evil.

17. God carried on his work regularly, and by degrees, till he finished the whole on the sixth day, ver. 31. -We should be diligent and persevering in all the good we do.

SECTION III.

Adam placed in the Garden of Eden.-Gen. ii. 1-10.

1. Thus the (1) heavens and the (2) earth were (3) finished, and all the (4) host of them.

1. Sky.-2. World.---3. Completed.---4. Things which are contained an them

1. What were finished? What was finished besides the heavens? What host was finished? What was done to the host of heaven?

2. And on the seventh day God (1) ended his work which he had made; and he (2) rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

1. Finished.-2. Ceased.

2. What did God do on the seventh day? What did God end? When did God end his work? What work did God end? What did God do on the seventh day? On what day did God rest? From what did God rest? From what work did God rest on the seventh day?

3. And God (1) blessed the seventh day, and (2) sanctified it; (3) be cause that in it he had (4) rested from all his work which God created and made.

1. Pronounced a blessing upon.-2. Made it holy, 3. For this reason. 4. Ceased.

3. What day did God bless? What did God do to the seventh day? Who blessed the seventh day? What did God do to the seventh day, besides blessing it? What did God sanctify? Why did God bless and sanctify the Sabbath? What had God dore on the seventh day? From what did God rest on the seventh day?

4. These are the (1) generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were (2) created; in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

1. True history of the beginning.-2. First brought into existence.

4. Of what are these the generations? Ofwhat time in the history of the heavens and the earth does this give an account? What were created? In what day? Who made the earth and the heavens? What did God make?

5. And every (1) plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every (2) herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not (3) caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to (4) till the ground. 1. Tree and bush.-2. Vegetable.-3. Made.-4. Dig up and prepare. 5. What did God make before it was in the earth? What plants are here mentioned? What herbs are here mentioned? Before what grew? What did God do to the plants and herbs, before they produced seed, or grew in the earth? (He made them, ver. 4.) Who had not caused it to rain? What had God not caused?