It affords a point of departure for the interpretation of the genesis of existing instincts.
The book of Genesis closes with the migration of Jacob's family into Egypt to escape the famine in Canaan.
The Genesis fragments have less of the heroic tone, except in the splendid passage describing the rebellion of Satan and his host.
The genesis of the last three types of deposit is generally assigned to the simultaneous percolation of solutions of gold and silica, the auriferous solution being formed during the disintegration of the gold-bearing metalliferous veins.
Cheyne, Genesis and Exodus, referring to Dorsey, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, pp. 2, 80 ff.