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Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 3

Posted on October 6, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 3

Genesis 8:15-17 “The Lord God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 ”Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you, 17 and bring out with you all the wild animals, all that are with you, and all flesh from birds to livestock, and every reptile moving on the earth, and increase and multiply on the earth.” ”

The flood was over. The destruction of the earth was complete; it was time to begin anew. God commanded humans and animals to increase and multiply. All future generations would be from Noah’s line, though Noah had no other children after the flood.

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Genesis – TP #2.3 – Days and Months

Posted on October 5, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #2.3 – Days and Months

The deluge began on the twenty-seventh day of the second month, and the ark ran aground on the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month. The total is five months. The text also says the time was 150 days. That would make each month 30 days long. With the moon cycle repeating every 29.5 days, the months usually alternate between 29 and 30 days. What is going on here? There are a few possibilities, and we will go through each one.

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Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 2

Posted on October 5, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 2

Genesis 7:11 “In the six hundredth year in the life of Noah, during the second month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, on this day all the springs of the deeps burst forth, and the waterfalls of the heavens were opened.”

The flood account provides a specific day for the start of the deluge. Most likely, the second month refers to the year of the flood and not to the second month of Noah’s six hundredth year. But that still doesn’t tell us when the flood occurred. If you read the previous post with the Excel sheet, you know why it is impossible to pinpoint the year of the flood. But why tell us the day?

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Genealogies Excel Sheet and pdf

Posted on October 4, 2021 | Comments Off on Genealogies Excel Sheet and pdf

As promised, here is a chart of the Genesis 5 and 11 genealogies. As you’ll see, there are blue columns and white columns. The blue columns contain the numbers provided in the Septuagint; the white columns contain the numbers from the Hebrew Masoretic. Those pairs of columns have six categories. They display the age of the fathers at the time of the births of their respective sons, then years for the rest of their lives, and the total number of years that they lived. From those numbers, we can determine the numbers that fill the following two columns, which show each person’s birth year and death year, counted from the creation. They are not BC (BCE) years. The last column is from Adam to Lamech only because it shows the number of years before the flood in which they died.

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Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 1

Posted on October 4, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 1

God told Noah to build an ark. He gave Noah the dimensions, the floor plans, and the openings. He also told Noah how to make it seaworthy to withstand the deluge that was coming. What exactly was God bringing on the earth?

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Genesis – TP #2.1 – Noah’s Family

Posted on October 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #2.1 – Noah’s Family

Genesis 5:32 “And Noah lived five hundred years, and Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”

Genesis 6:10 “Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”

The firstborn son gets a lot of attention in the Bible. You would think that a list of someone’s children would be in chronological order. That’s not always the case. People of distinction or importance sometimes move to the top of the list. Such is the case with Noah’s son. Shem gets top billing because it is through his lineage that Abraham is born and ultimately the Messiah.

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Genesis – TP #2 – Noach Summary

Posted on October 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #2 – Noach Summary

This week’s portion is about six chapters, but it only has about three sections. Those sections are Noah’s calling, the Flood or Great Deluge, and Noah’s genealogy with the Table of Nations. That doesn’t mean we don’t have a lot to address. Many things are happening behind the scene from what we read in these six chapters. We may not even be able to chase all the rabbits down their holes in what we’ll find this week. Let’s look at a few things.

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October 2, 2012 – Torah Portion #1

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Today’s Torah Portion:

B’reisheet – In The Beginning

Genesis 1:1 – 6:8

Haftarah:

Isaiah 42:5 – 43:10
1 Samuel 20:18-42

New Testament:

John 1:1-18

Next Week’s Torah Portion:

Noach – Noah

Genesis 6:9 – 11:32

Haftarah:

Isaiah 54:1 – 55:5
Isaiah 66:1-24

New Testament:

Luke 17:20-27

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Genesis – TP #1.7 – Days and Months

Posted on October 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #1.7 – Days and Months

There’s one more thing to say about this Torah portion, and that is about the timing of a day and when a month begins. There are many different beliefs about how to calculate and keep the calendar as it is described in the Bible. You may know that today we keep the Gregorian calendar that was established in the 16th century. But that calendar won’t help us with understanding the timing of things in the Bible because it is a solar-based calendar. The calendar of the Bible is lunar-solar based, meaning it uses the moon and the sun to calculate the days and months of the year. I won’t go into all the variants and beliefs, but only share what I have discovered in reading through God’s Word and observing the moon cycles myself. So here goes.

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Genesis – TP #1.6 – The Nephilim and the sons of God

Posted on September 30, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #1.6 – The Nephilim and the sons of God

First off, we need to point out that the sons of God and the Nephilim are two different things. Sometimes people conflate the two, but they are separate. I’ll start by providing the three viewpoints of what is going on in the passage of Genesis chapter 6 and then talk about each one.

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