March 13

The Ground – Adamah

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

(Genesis 3:22-23) ESV

So far we’ve considered features of the surface of the Earth including topography and the development of vegetation. The ground is a translation of the Hebrew adamah, where Adam gets his name since he was made from the dust of the ground.

then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

(Genesis 2:7) ESV

For the rest of the month we’re going to go below the surface of the Earth on a downward descent and consider what the Bible tells us about the other regions of Earth’s interior: the mantle, the great gulf, and the core. Before we do though we’ll mention a couple of other things.

• Earth or World?
• Levels of Hell
• Graves and Pits
• Sheol