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  • Genesis 11: Babel and Beyond

    After the flood, all the people settled in one area called the Plain of Shinar. They baked bricks for stone and used bitumen, a viscous form of natural petroleum, for mortar. They said to themselves, let’s build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and make a name for ourselves, lest…

  • Chapter 10: Nations

    This chapter goes through the genealogies of the three sons of Noah. There are a 70 names listed, and several of them are the names of tribes and nations that later pop up in the Bible times and still today.  Japheth has seven sons listed and of those sons, seven significant grandsons are also listed.…

  • Built to Last

    After I got married, I worked briefly at company that sold custom wood ceilings. I remember one time there were two orders for similar looking products. One was a walnut ceiling, and the other was a poplar ceiling stained to look like walnut.  The first client was an Ivy League school. I think it was…

  • Genesis 9: The Aftermath

    After the flood, God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth. Even though Noah’s wife and his sons’ wives are not mentioned explicitly, we are assuming that they are also participants in this blessing, since it takes two to multiply. God told the survivors that…

  • Genesis 8:  Earth 2.0 

    In the eighth chapter of Genesis, it says that God remembered Noah and his family and the rain stopped. A wind blew and the waters subsided. In the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark settled in the mountains of Ararat. That is modernly Turkey’s northeastern border with Iran* and Armenia.  After waiting 40…

  • Genesis 7: The Flood

    God told Noah to take his family of eight including his wife, 3 sons and 3 daughters-in-law and himself, along with 7 pairs of each clean animal and two pairs of each unclean animal into the boat. Clean animals are later shown to be the as ones used for sacrifice. God says in seven days…

  • Genesis 6: We Built a Zoo

    Chapter 6 begins with a curious account of the sons of God having children with the daughters of Earth. There are two main interpretations the “sons of God,” either they are followers of God having children with non-believers, or some sort of angels that came down and had offspring with humans. The results of these…

  • Genesis 5: Generations

    This chapter repeats the part about God creating man, the word adam meaning of earth, “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.” Genesis 5:2  Then it says Adam lived another 800 years after Seth was born and had more daughters and sons. After Seth…

  • Genesis 4: Three Brothers

    Adam and Eve have a son and Eve names the boy Cain meaning “gotten a man with the Lord’s help.” She sees this child as a gift from God, as many parents do. They have a second son, Abel, meaning breath.  Abel keeps sheep and Cain works the ground. After a while, Cain brings an…

  • Genesis 3: In the Garden

    The story of beginning takes a turn when the serpent starts talking. Being “craftier” than the other animals, it asks the woman if God actually said they shall not eat of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Is this a talking animal book? No. No more animals speak except for one time later.…