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    Laboriously did he describe the genesis of the picnic.  (source)
    genesis = how it came to be
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    No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, in a lightning flash, the people and God.†  (source)
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    The other five had giant meths from Robotech and Neon Genesis Evangelion.†  (source)
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    Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)†  (source)
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    A mere show of obedience without inner commitment would not have appeased the God of Genesis.†  (source)
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    The first night I read through Genesis, the second night I read through Exodus.†  (source)
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    If we go further on in the Book of Genesis we read about the Flood and Noah's Ark.†  (source)
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    Genesis 11:6-9, Revised Standard Version.†  (source)
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    Naturally I knew Chapter 19 of Genesis, which he'd made us copy out time and again.†  (source)
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    Lindsay put on a tape and Jas and I looked at one another—it was Genesis.†  (source)
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    Genesis.†  (source)
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    So, not unlike that fellow in Genesis who said Let there be this, or Let there be that, and there was this or that, when Soso said Life has improved, comrades, life—in fact—improved!†  (source)
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    * See Genesis, chapter 22.†  (source)
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    During this period, it was said that Genesis was reinterpreted, permitting God to say: "Increase and multiply, and fill the universe, and subdue it, and rule over all manner of strange beasts and living creatures in the infinite airs, on the infinite earths and beneath them."  (source)
    Genesis = the first book of the Bible
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    When we were first dating, a Genesis song came on the radio: "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah."  (source)
    Genesis = name of a musical group
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    I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.  (source)
    Genesis = the first book of the Bible which is said to describe how God created the world
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    Lucky could not resist making a somewhat irreverent reference to Genesis, "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it Cesar let them swim."  (source)
    Genesis = name of the first book of the Bible which describes the creation of the world and humanity
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    Genesis Nine, Verse Six: 'Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.'  (source)
    Genesis = the first book of the Bible which is said to describe how God created the world
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    Genesis tells us that Eve was created from Adam's rib.  (source)
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    That would be Genesis 3:24 for those of you keeping score.  (source)
    Genesis = name of the first book of the Bible
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    Because the author of the novel on which the film is based, John Steinbeck, knew his Book of Genesis.  (source)
    Genesis = name of the first book of the Bible which describes the creation of the world and humanity
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    That's okay, though, because the story from Genesis of Adam and Eve is only one version, and on the level of myth, it has many cousins.  (source)
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