1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. The last person god spoke directly to was Noah and his family. Now after ten generations of silence, God reaches out to Abram. Abram does not call out to God,…
1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. Up until now there had been one human language. Whatever language was spoken by Noah and his sons, was likely the same language used by Adam and Eve. The implications of this statement are outstanding. Language is a huge part of how humans…
1 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. This chapter begins with another “These are the generations of…” statement, marking a decisive shift in the narrative, and officially closing out the story of Noah. This chapter is the second major genealogy…
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. After the offering made by Noah prompts God to promise to never strike down all life while the earth remains, God issues a command similar to the one he gave Adam and Eve, to be fruitful…
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. God remembered Noah. In the original Hebrew, the word “remembered” could be understood as “turning His attention to.” God had completed His…
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. After Noah completes the ark, as per God’s instructions, God then commands Noah and his family to enter the ark. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all…
1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Coming off of the first of several genealogies, as a prologue to the flood narrative, Scripture…
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. This begins the second “generations of _______” section in Genesis. Whereas the previous…
1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. Having been banished from Eden, Adam and…
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” This is of course the passage of scripture where God’s “very good” creation, paradise on earth…