Tag: Genesis

Genesis 15I don’t understand the sign that the Lord gave here with the various animals being butchered and their various parts placed together. Perhaps each part represented a people in the land of Canaan.I think it is interesting how the Lord told Abram that the reason his seed would not inherit the land yet was…

Genesis 14It continues to amaze me how much more we know than what the Bible has recorded. I really doubt that the meeting with Melchizedek took place at the same time as the meeting with the king of Sodom. Abram met with Melchizedek and paid tithes first. At that time he received the High Priesthood…

Genesis 13When Lot chose to go east the Lord told Abram that He would grand the North, West, and South to his posterity and told him to traverse all that land. We are also told that before Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed that plain of Jordon was well watered everywhere.

Genesis 12This gives no indication as to why the Lord warned Abram to leave his fathers house nor more importantly why He would make the first promises to Abram – thankfully modern scripture enlightens us with the knowledge that Terah offered his son as a sacrifice and that Abram sought those promised blessings. (Those specific…

Genesis 11The Bible says that the people used “slime” for mortar. The footnote suggests bitumen as an alternate word – I looked up bitumen to discover that it is the fluid part of what asphalt is made of – that would hold together a massive tower.“Let us make us a name lest we be scattered.”…

Genesis 10A chapter containing nothing except genealogy – usually they have other things mixed in with the genealogy.

Genesis 9After the flood the lord tells Noah and his sons that the animals will fear mankind – this suggests that before the flood the animals may have treated men as simply other animals, walking freely among them (like our deer do up in this area). He also tells them that animals who shed the…

Genesis 8I may have misread in my assumption that the water was only 20 feet deep – it may be that the scripture was meant to convey that they rose 20 feet higher than the mountains – not 20 feet absolutely. Noah waited a week after the dove returned with an olive leaf showing that…

Genesis 7Moses was told to take 7 pairs of birds “to keep seed alive on the face of the earth.” I wonder if that is to keep enough birds to have sufficient offspring to overcome high death rates or if he is saying that more birds were needed for purposes of seed distribution. Noah was…

Genesis 6I have understood the “sons of God” referenced here to mean those men who had made covenants with the Lord – even they were being drawn towards to world – choosing to marry outside the covenant and hence raise children without the covenant. The people had essentially removed themselves from a covenant position with…