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†. Gen 14:4b . . and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. El Ched wouldn't get wind of that right away of course. There was no email, no radio, no sat-com, no land line, no snail mail, no cells, nor television, nor telegraph, nor aircraft, nor motorized conveyances in that day so it would take...

†. Gen 14:1 . . Now, when King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of nations. Shinar was the whole of Babylonia; Ellasar was the leading tribe in its southern part; and Elam was the original kingdom of Persia. The Hebrew word for "nations" is...

†. Gen 13:18a . . And Abram moved his tent, and came to dwell at the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron; Hebron (Hevron) itself is today a city of over 70,000 people located about 20 miles south of Jerusalem at an elevation of 3,050 feet above sea level. Hebron is sacred in Jewish...

†. Gen 13:13 . . Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked sinners against the Lord. The precise location of ancient Sodom is uncertain. Some feel it was sited at the south end of the Dead Sea; but it's really hard to know for sure. According to Gen 14:1-3, the communities of Sodom...

†. 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 12:13 . . I beseech you; say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive thanks to you. Abraham was shrewd. He was not only concerned about saving his skin, but also about taking advantage of his being Sarai's kin; and actually that...

†. Gen 12:7c-8 . . And he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name. Eusebius...

†. Gen 12:3c . . And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you. Now we see coming into play the most important part of God's plan for Abram. At the moment God made that promise, every other family on the earth was just about totally involved in paganism. Even Terah, Abram's...

†. 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 interaction...

†. 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 Abraham 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 11:28 . . Haran died in the lifetime of his father Terah, in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans. The Grim Reaper cares not for the age of its victims, whether young or whether old. Haran died before his dad. Many a parent has buried their children before they even had a chance to live...

†. 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. To whom was Yhvh speaking when He spoke those words? Very likely to the God that Yhvh represents. I think what...

†. 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 descendants...

†. Gen 9:27a . . May God enlarge Japheth, That seems more a prayer than a prediction. Japheth is generally regarded as the father of several Gentile nations, most particularly the Romans and the Greeks, who became mighty world powers. Japheth seemed like an okay kind of guy who at least had a...

†. Gen 9:20b . . was the first to plant a vineyard. Was Noah the first ever to plant a vineyard? I strongly suspect verse 20 means that he was just the first one to raise grapes in the new world; not the first ever in all of history. †. Gen 9:21a . . He drank of the wine and became drunk...

†. 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 his...

†. Gen 9:5 . . But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man! Noah's Law #2 : Capital Punishment; viz: retribution for the unjustified death of a human...

†. 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...

†. Gen 9:1 . . God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: Be fertile and increase, and fill the earth. Divine blessings should never be construed as mandates, nor as laws, rules and/or commands. They're typically expressions of good will and/or empowerment. God included Noah in the...