Smoodock's Blog

After the Flood, God begins again to build humanity, spreading them out across the globe, and he begins this time with eight souls instead of two. There are Noah and his wife, and Noah’s three sons and their wives. However, getting from the Genesis Flood to Abraham is a little difficult to put into words, at least this is so, if you wish to make the labor interesting. We have three chapters, half of which contain genealogies! How does one make that interesting? A cursory read doesn’t grab one’s imagination, either. Noah leaves the ark, plants a vineyard, gets drunk and curses Canaan for something that Ham did. Now, what’s that all about? Then we have a lot of begats, followed by the Nimrod incident, whereupon God comes down out of heaven to judge mankind for building an edifice with brick instead of stone. Now that makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?

Next, we have another list of begats, followed by an introduction to Abraham, who seems to be worshiping gods in the land of Ur in Mesopotamia. He marries his sister and his father takes him and his brother and their wives to Haran, which is westward, toward what would later become Israel, where Abraham’s descendants settle. All in all, it seems to be nothing more than a “ho-hum” area we need to read to get from the Genesis Flood Abraham, where the read gets more interesting. Nevertheless, Genesis 9 through 11 have some very interesting points to understand. A deeper study reveals much more that a cursory read reveals. I hope my reader is as much surprised as I was, after I studied these chapters.