Genesis – Page 4 – The Surly Curmudgeon

We examine the details of the flood, and God’s institution of the Noahic covenant afterward.

The story of the great flood and God’s miraculous preservation of Noah and his family inside the ark God directed Noah to build is familiar to most people. Children love this story because of the animals that God told Noah to bring into the ark with him. The full story of the great flood takes up four chapters of Genesis – too much to cover properly in one session. In this first part, we take a look at God’s motivations for bringing a flood upon the earth, His promise to establish His covenant with Noah, and the details of the ark’s construction.

These maps show the possible locations of the homelands for people groups mentioned in the Genesis 10 “Table of Nations.”

Side-by-side comparison of Biblical genealogies from Luke, Matthew, Genesis, Ruth, and 1 Chronicles.

Chapters 4 & 5 of Genesis list the descendants of Adam and Eve down to Noah and his three sons just prior to the great flood. After briefly listing the descendants of their son Cain, these genealogies focus in on the descendants of their son Seth through whose line, Jesus theַ מָשִׁיח māšîaḥ would be … Read more

In the latter half of Genesis 2, God’s Word fills in the details of the creation of mankind including the commandment He gave to Adam – forbidding him to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Then Genesis 3 tells us that Adam and Eve disobeyed this commandment, bringing … Read more

We examine the creation as detailed in Genesis 1 and the implementation of the principle of the sabbath rest implemented by God’s own example in Genesis 2:1-3

Before launching our verse-by-verse study of Genesis we need to examine the general structure and history of the book.

In our first study in Genesis, we’ll examine only the first two verses, discussing what they tell us about the eternal nature of God and about His triune character.