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- †. Gen 13:10 . . Lot looked about him and saw how well watered was the whole plain of the Jordan, all of it-- this was before the Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah --all the way to Zoar, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. The Jordan Valley slopes southward like a ramp...

- †. Gen 13:1-2 . . From Egypt, Abram went up into the Negeb, with his wife and all that he possessed, together with Lot. Now Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold. The word for "rich" is from kabad (kaw-bad') which means: to be heavy, i.e. in either a bad sense (burdensome, severe...

- †. Gen 12:14 . .When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw how very beautiful the woman was. When men talk about a woman's beauty, they're not talking about the sterling character of a woman like Ruth; no, they're talking about the woman's physical attributes. (cf. Gen 6:1-2) How did the...

- †. Gen 12:10 . .There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. Famines were usually the result of things like low humidity, lack of rain, and/or plagues of insects and plant diseases. Abram fully intended to return to...

- †. Gen 12:7a . .The Lord appeared to Abram Exactly how or in what form God appeared to Abram isn't said. God's appearances aren't always visual. Sometimes an appearance is merely an audible voice; or a dream, an angel, a burning bush, a breeze, a column of smoke, or even an eerie glow. †...

- †. Gen 12:3b . . And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. The Hebrew word translated "in you" is a bit ambiguous. It can also mean though you and/or by means of you. Abram eventually found out that the above prediction concerned a great grandson of his. "Your father...

- †. Gen 12:1. .The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. Stephen said Abram was still living in Ur, and hadn't moved up to Haran yet when God called him to leave his kin (Acts 7:2-3). There's no record of any...

- †. Gen 11:32 . .The days of Terah came to 205 years; and Terah died in Haran. Terah lived a relatively long life for his day. His son Abram only lived to 175. But I sometimes wonder if Terah didn't cut his life short by staying in Haran. Did he forget about God's call to Abram to go to...

- †. Gen 11:30 . . Now Sarai was barren, she had no child. This is the very first recorded incident of a human reproductive malfunction. Other than the reduction in longevity; the human body seems to have been running on all eight cylinders up to this point. But who was the problem; was it...

- †. Gen 11:26-27 . .When Terah had lived 70 years, he begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Now this is the line of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. By the time of Terah, Shem's line had slipped away and no longer worshipped Yhvh in spite of their solid spiritual...

- †. Gen 11:6 . . and Yhvh said: If, as one people with one language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may propose to do will be out of their reach. I don't think Yhvh objected to the people's unity per se. I mean, after all; it's Christ's wish that his church...

- †. Gen 11:4 . . And they said: Come, let us build us a city, and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for ourselves; else we shall be scattered all over the world. Magnificent cities have a way of attracting tourism, commerce, and industry. People want to come and visit, and to...

- †. Gen 11:1 . . Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. The Hebrew word for "language" is from saphah (saw-faw') which means: the lip. The one for "words" is from dabar (daw-baw') which means: a word (as spoken or written) Spoken languages are a combination of words and...

- †. Gen 10:1 . .These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah: sons were born to them after the Flood. Chapter ten is a tiresome list of genealogies that some have found interesting enough to devote entire books; generating a catalogue of nations connecting Noah's...

- †. Gen 9:25b . . the lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers. That's a very derogatory remark, and more likely a colloquialism rather than a literal prediction; sort of like the one God made regarding the Serpent; that it would crawl on its belly and eat dirt; viz: henceforth be...

- †. Gen 9:22b . . and told his two brothers outside. Ham wasn't just a little kid who stumbled into his parents' bedroom. He was a grown man, married, and quite possibly by this time his son Canaan was already born. Catching his dad naked was probably an innocent enough accident; but Ham...

- †. Gen 9:20a . . Noah, a tiller of the soil, There was a time when a large percentage of Americans grew their own food, but it's come to the point when some kids don't even know that where their food comes from. For example; as a young graduate student, Steven L. Hopp, co-author of Animal...

- †. Gen 9:7 . . Be fertile, then, and increase; abound on the earth and increase on it. The idea conveyed here is that Man was not supposed to unite and stay in one place, but to scatter, diversify, and establish communities all over the globe. †. Gen 9:8-10 . . And God said to Noah and to...

- †. Gen 9:6a . .Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; The death penalty here in Gen 9:6 is mandatory only for murder; which Webster's defines as: the crime of unlawfully killing a person; especially with malice aforethought. The key word in that definition is...

- †. Gen 9:4 . .You must not, however, eat flesh with its life-blood in it. That restriction is against life-blood; so then blood that cannot support life-- dead blood --is exempt. Life-blood, is actually blood that's alive; blood that hasn't begun to spoil; viz: it's still fresh enough for a...