Chapter I.
A
COMMENTARY
UPON THE
Firſt Book of Moſes,
CALLED
GENESIS.
THat MOSES wrote this and the Four following Books hath been ſ conſtantly believed, both by Jews, Chriſtians, and Heathens, that none, I think, denied it, till Aben Ezra (a Jewiſh Doctor, who lived not much above five hundred Years ago) raiſed ſome Doubts about it, in his Notes upon the Firſt of Deuteronomy, out of XII Paſſages in theſe Books themſelves: Which he pretended could not be his, but the Words of a later Author. But when I meet with thoſe places, I ſhall make it appear, that all ſuch Exceptions are very frivolous, and ought not to ſhake our belief of this Truth, That theſe Five Books were penned by MOSES and no Body elſe.
The firſt is called GENESIS, becauſe it contains the Hiſtory of the Creation of the World, with
