Transcript Genesis 1-11 © John Stevenson, 2012 Torah Hebrew: “Law, Instruction” Pentateuch Greek: “Five-Part Book” Genesis Creation to Egypt Exodus Deliverance from Egypt and establishment of covenant Leviticus Laws of worship Numbers Wilderness wanderings Deuteronomy Law to.

Genesis 1-11
© John Stevenson, 2012
Torah
Hebrew: “Law,
Instruction”
Pentateuch
Greek: “Five-Part
Book”
Genesis
Creation to Egypt
Exodus
Deliverance from Egypt and
establishment of covenant
Leviticus
Laws of worship
Numbers
Wilderness wanderings
Deuteronomy
Law to new generation with
special emphasis to those
entering the land
Documentary Hypothesis
Deuteronomy
Jean Astruc:
Jehovah
Elohim
Moses utilized two different
source documents
Wilhelm de Wette:
Deuteronomy penned by
alternate author
Documentary Hypothesis
Deuteronomy
Jehovah
E-1
Herman Hulfeld:
Julius Wellhausen:
Elohim
E-2
J
– Jehovah
E
– Elohim
D
– Deuteronomy
P
– Priestly
The Unity of the Torah
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Genesis 50:24 - Exodus 1:7.
Exodus 40:34 - Leviticus1:2.
Leviticus 27:34 - Numbers 1:4.
Numbers 36:13 - Deuteronomy 1:5.
The Book of Beginnings
Genesis 1-11
Genesis 12-50
Events Predominant People Predominant
– Creation
– Fall
– Flood
– Tower of Babel
– Abraham
– Isaac
– Jacob
– Joseph
Race as a whole
Family of Abraham
Over 2000 years
250 years
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
• The “who” of creation.
• The work of creation.
• The “what” of creation.
Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
And the earth was unformed and
unfilled, and darkness was over the
surface of the deep; and the Spirit of
God was moving over the surface of
the waters.
Unformed
Unfilled
Day 1: Light
Day 4: Light-bearers
(sun, moon, stars)
Day 2: Water & sky
divided
Day 5: Fish & birds to
fill water & sky
Day 3: Dry land &
vegetation
Day 6: Land animals
& man
Day 7: Sabbath Rest
Genesis 1:26-27
The God said, “Let Us make man
in Our image, according to Our
likeness; and let them rule over the fish
of the sea and over the birds of the sky
and over the cattle and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth.”
And God created man in His own
image, in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created
them. (Genesis 1:26-27).
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God
said to them, “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth, and
subdue it; and rule over the fish of
the sea and over the birds of the
sky and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.”
– In the Image of God
– Federal Headship
– Stewardship and a basis for Ecology
Why are there
two separate
accounts of
creation?
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
The heavens and the
Creation of the man
earth are created in six and woman (no time
days.
element mentioned).
Panorama of creation Detailed focus on one
as a whole
aspect of creation
Centers on God
creating the heavens
and the earth
Centers on man as the
crowning act of God’s
creation
Creation complete: Heavens & earth created;
God finished His work (1-3)
Man created: Formed from dust (4-9)
Trees & Rivers in garden given names (9-14)
Creation complete: Heavens & earth created;
God finished His work (1-3)
Man created: Formed from dust (4-9)
Trees & Rivers in garden given names (9-14)
Man assigned task of guarding & keeping the
garden (15)
Forbidden fruit (16-17)
And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat
freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat
from it you shall surely die.“ (Genesis 2:16-17)
Creation complete: Heavens & earth created;
God finished His work (1-3)
Man created: Formed from dust (4-9)
Trees & Rivers in garden given names (9-14)
Man assigned task of guarding & keeping the
garden (15)
Forbidden fruit (16-17)
Man in need of a helper: not good to be alone
(18)
Animals in garden are given names (19-20)
Woman created: Formed from rib (21-24)
Creation complete: Man & woman naked &
unashamed in presence of God (25)
When the woman
saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it
was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was
desirable to make one
wise, she took from its
fruit and ate; and she
gave also to her husband
with her, and he ate.
(Genesis 3:6)
What are the
results from
their actions of
taking and
eating the
forbidden fruit?
And I will put enmity
between you and the
woman, and between
your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on
the head, and you shall
bruise him on the heel.
(Genesis 3:15)
Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain & Abel
How is the Cain &
Abel narrative
related to the larger
story of Genesis?
Seed of the Serpent
Cain
Lamech
Literally,
“another SEED”
Seed of the Woman
Abel
And Adam had relations
with his wife again; and she
gave birth to a son, and
named him Seth, for, she
said, "God has appointed
me another offspring in
place of Abel; for Cain
killed him." (Genesis 4:25).
Genesis 1-6
Genesis 7-11
Creation history
Adam’s sons (4:1-16)
Technological
Development of
Mankind (4:17-26)
Ten Generations from
Adam to Noah (5:132)
Noahic history
Noah’s sons (9:18-29)
Ethnic Development
of Mankind (10:1-32)
Ten Generations from
Noah to Terah (11:1026)
Genesis 6:1-2
Now it came about, when men
began to multiply on the face of the
land, and daughters were born to
them, 2 that the sons of God saw that
the daughters of men were beautiful;
and they took wives for themselves,
whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit
shall not strive with man forever,
because
he
also
is
flesh;
nevertheless his days shall be one
hundred and twenty years.”
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth
in those days, and also afterward,
when the sons of God came in to the
daughters of men, and they bore
children to them. Those were the
mighty men who were of old, men of
renown.
Sons of God refer to
Angels
• Septuagint supports this interpretation
• Sons of God are angels in Job
• Angels in heaven do not marry, but these
angels were not in heaven
• The resulting offspring produced giants
• Supported in Apocryphal book of Enoch as
well as in Jude 6.
Sons of God refer to
Descendants of Seth
• Preceding chapters set forth contrast of
two lines
• Men began to call on the name of the Lord
• It is mankind that is punished in the flood
• Sonship is a common theme in the Old
Testament
• Marriage of godly seed to ungodly people
is a common theme in Genesis
Sons of God refer to
Kings and Rulers
• Aramaic lends itself to this interpretation
• Elohim refers to human judges in Ex 21:6;
22:8-9 and in Psalm 82:1, 6
• Similar use in Babylonian texts
• Kings often referred to as Elohim in east
• Actions paralleled in Lamech
• Nephilim refer to fallen ones
Genesis 6:14
Make for yourself an ark of
gopher wood; you shall make the ark
with rooms, and shall cover it inside
and out with pitch.
tb;Te
Same word is used for
the ark into which the
baby Moses was placed
Genesis 6:15
This is how you shall make it:
the length of the ark three hundred
cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its
height thirty cubits.
Noah’s three sons (6:10)
Covenant with Noah (6:18)
• Promise to destroy the earth with a flood
Command to take food (6:21)
Noah & Family enter the ark (7:1)
Flood on the earth (7:11 – 8:13)
Noah & Family come out of ark (8:14)
Command not to eat blood (9:14)
Covenant with Noah (9:8-17)
• Promise not to destroy the earth with a flood
Noah’s three sons (9:18)
The Lord shuts the door and it rains 40
days and nights (7:15-16)
Waters increase until the mountains
are covered (7:18-20)
150 days waters prevail (7:21-24)
God Remembers Noah (8:1)
150 days waters abate (8:3)
Waters decrease until the mountain
become visible (8:4-5)
At the end of 40 days Noah opens the
window (8:6)
Noah’s three sons (6:10)
Covenant with Noah (6:18)
• Promise to destroy the earth with a flood
Command to take food (6:21)
Noah & Family enter the ark (7:1)
Flood on the earth (7:11 – 8:13)
Noah & Family come out of ark (8:14)
Command not to eat blood (9:14)
Covenant with Noah (9:8-17)
• Promise not to destroy the earth with a flood
Noah’s three sons (9:18)
Genesis 8:4
In the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, the
ark rested upon the mountains of
Ararat.
Genesis 9:8-10
Then God spoke to Noah and to
his sons with him, saying, 9 “Now
behold, I Myself do establish My
covenant with you, and with your
descendants after you; 10 and with
every living creature that is with you,
the birds, the cattle, and every beast
of the earth with you; of all that
comes out of the ark, even every
beast of the earth.”
Noah,
his descendants,
and every living creature
Genesis 9:11
“I establish My covenant with
you; and all flesh shall never again be
cut off by the water of the flood,
neither shall there again be a flood to
destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:20-22
Then Noah began farming and
planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the
wine and became drunk, and
uncovered himself inside his tent. 22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his
two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23
But Shem and Japheth took a
garment and laid it upon both their
shoulders and walked backward and
covered the nakedness of their father;
and their faces were turned away, so
that they did not see their father's
nakedness.
Genesis 9:24-25
When Noah awoke from his
wine, he knew what his youngest son
had done to him.
25
So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”
Genesis 9:26-27
He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
Genesis 9:26-27
He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
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Genesis 9:26-27
He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
To whom does the
pronoun refer?
May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
27
To whom does the
pronoun refer?
Seed of the Serpent
Cain
Seed of the Woman
Abel & Seth
Enoch
Lamech
Noah
Ham
Shem
Canaan
Abraham
Genesis 11:1-2
Now the whole earth used the
same language and the same
words. 2 It came about as they
journeyed east, that they found a
plain in the land of Shinar and
settled there.
● Babel
Genesis 11:3-4
They said to one another, “Come,
let us make bricks and burn them
thoroughly.” And they used brick for
stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4
They said, “Come, let us build for
ourselves a city, and a tower whose
top will reach into heaven, and let us
make for ourselves a name, otherwise
we will be scattered abroad over the
face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called
Babel, because there the LORD
confused the language of the whole
earth; and from there the LORD
scattered them abroad over the face of
the whole earth.
lb,B'  Babel
Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called
Babel, because there the LORD
confused the language of the whole
earth; and from there the LORD
scattered them abroad over the face of
the whole earth.
lb,B'  Babel
ll;B'  Balal
Ten Generations
Noah
Ten Generations
Adam
Noah
Terah
Three sons
Three sons