Study Desk

Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

On that same day Noah and his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, entered the ark, along with Noah’s wife and his three sons’ wives.

So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out.

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Whoever sheds human blood,by humans his blood will be shed,for God made humans in his image.

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord.

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me but let you live.