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What God did on Earth's first fourth day.

Ben1445

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Replenish is refill.
From Webster's 1828. It is the best balance I can find between modern English and the English used at the time of translation.
Maybe those who hail from a location closer to the translators can suggest a better dictionary?

In 1828, the word simply meant to fill abundantly.

REPLEN'ISH, v.t. L. re and plenus, full.

1. To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water.

Multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. 1.

2. To finish; to complete. Not in use.

REPLEN'ISH, v.i. To recover former fullness.
 

KJB1611reader

Active Member
From Webster's 1828. It is the best balance I can find between modern English and the English used at the time of translation.
Maybe those who hail from a location closer to the translators can suggest a better dictionary?

In 1828, the word simply meant to fill abundantly.

REPLEN'ISH, v.t. L. re and plenus, full.

1. To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water.

Multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. 1.

2. To finish; to complete. Not in use.

REPLEN'ISH, v.i. To recover former fullness.
Replenish is refill, I will find more evidence later.
 

David Lamb

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Replenish is refill.
But as Adam was the first man created by God, how could Adam refill the earth? The earth had not been filled once yet:

Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

The original Hebrew word translated in the KJV as "replenish" means (I am told) "to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively): — accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), [over-]flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a [hand-]full, + have wholly." (Strong's Concordance).

Indeed most English translations of the bible have "fill the earth".
 

percho

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for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God, 2 Peter 3:5 YLT

Is that descriptive of the earth as spoken of in Gen 1:2 and Gen 1:6-10?
 

Aaron

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Exodus 20:11 - For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, ...

Someone else - It took two and half million years for the light from Andromeda to reach the earth.

Whom do you believe more?
@37818 , are you going to answer this?
 

Aaron

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Genesis 1:3-5 is the basis of the Solar day being measured.
So days were being measured before the sun was made. That's my point. No sun was the source of the light that was made on the first day. "Beginning" marks the point at we start our time piece. And in the beginning, the heaven and the earth was made. So earth days were being measured since the beginning.
 
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