Category: Genesis

16 Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. Setting the Scene for Genesis 21:16 In Genesis chapter 21,…

9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.” Setting the Scene for Genesis 13:9 In Genesis chapter 13, we find Abram (later known as…

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And…

7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” 8 But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old,…

23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. Setting the Scene for Genesis 9:23 In Genesis chapter 9, we find the story of Noah and his…

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is…

1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Setting the Scene for Genesis 6:1-2 In Genesis chapter 6, we find ourselves in a…

15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. Setting the Scene for Genesis 13:15 In Genesis chapter 13, we find Abram (later known as Abraham) and his nephew Lot standing in the land of Canaan. The scene unfolds as they have just returned from Egypt,…

14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. Setting the Scene for Genesis 8:14 In Genesis chapter 8, after the great flood, Noah and his family find themselves on the ark as the waters begin to recede. The scene is one of both relief and anticipation…

1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 3 In the course of time Cain brought…