Category: Genesis

10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. Setting the Scene for Genesis 8:10 In Genesis chapter 8, we find Noah and his family aboard the ark after the great flood that covered the earth. The scene is one of anticipation and hope as they wait…

15 Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him. Setting the Scene for Genesis 4:15 In Genesis chapter 4, we find the story of Cain and Abel, the…

10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor. Setting the Scene for Genesis 24:10 In Genesis chapter 24, we find the scene where Abraham’s servant is on a crucial mission…

5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!” Setting the Scene for Genesis 16:5 In Genesis chapter 16, we…

11 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. Setting the Scene for Genesis 4:11 In Genesis chapter 4, we find the story of Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve. The scene in Genesis 4:11 takes place after Cain…

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly. 3 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 4…

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,” 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark;…

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 And the Amorites, the Canaanites, the…

1 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian…

7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens…