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†. 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...