1. Old Testament
Genesis 1-11
© John Stevenson, 2012

2. Hebrew: “Law, Instruction”
Torah
Hebrew: “Law, Instruction”
Pentateuch
Greek: “Five-Part Book”

3. Wilderness wanderings
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

4. Documentary Hypothesis
Deuteronomy
Jehovah
Elohim
Jean Astruc:
Moses utilized two different source documents
Wilhelm de Wette:
Deuteronomy penned by alternate author

5. Documentary Hypothesis
Deuteronomy
Jehovah
Elohim
E-1
E-2
Herman Hulfeld:
Julius Wellhausen: J
– Jehovah E
– Elohim D
– Deuteronomy P
– Priestly

6. The Unity of the Torah Genesis 50:24 - Exodus 1:7.
Exodus 40:34 - Leviticus1:2.
Leviticus 27:34 - Numbers 1:4.
Numbers 36:13 - Deuteronomy 1:5.

7. Genesis
The Book of Beginnings

8. Events Predominant Creation Fall Flood Tower of Babel
Genesis 1-11
Genesis 12-50
Events Predominant
Creation
Fall
Flood
Tower of Babel
People Predominant
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Joseph
Race as a whole
Family of Abraham
Over 2000 years
250 years

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. Genesis 1:26-27
Day 6
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).

13. 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

14. Why are there two separate accounts of creation?

15. The heavens and the earth are created in six days.
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
The heavens and the earth are created in six days.
Creation of the man and woman (no time element mentioned).
Panorama of creation as a whole
Detailed focus on one aspect of creation
Centers on God creating the heavens and the earth
Centers on man as the crowning act of God’s creation

16. 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)

18. 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)

19. 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)

20. 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)

21. 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)

22. What are the results from their actions of taking and eating the forbidden fruit?

23. 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)

24. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain & Abel
How is the Cain & Abel narrative related to the larger story of Genesis?

25. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain
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).
Lamech
Literally,
“another SEED”

26. Genesis 1-6 Genesis 7-11 Creation history Noahic history
Adam’s sons (4:1-16)
Noah’s sons (9:18-29)
Technological Development of Mankind (4:17-26)
Ethnic Development of Mankind (10:1-32)
Ten Generations from Adam to Noah (5:1-32)
Ten Generations from Noah to Terah (11:10-26)

27. 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.

28. 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.”

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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.

35. 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)

36. 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)

37. 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)

38. Genesis 8:4
In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

39. Ararat

40. 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.”

41. What is a...
Covenant

42. Noah, his descendants, and every living creature
GOD
Covenant
Noah, his descendants, and every living creature

43. 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.”

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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.”

47. 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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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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49. To whom does the pronoun refer?
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?

50. To whom does the pronoun refer?
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?

51. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain
Abel & Seth
Enoch
Lamech
Noah
Ham
Shem
Canaan
Abraham

52. 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.

53. Shinar
● Babel

54. 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.”

57. 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.
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 Babel

58. lb,B' ll;B' Genesis 11:9  Babel  Balal
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

59. Genesis 5 Genesis 11 Adam Noah Noah Terah Ten Generations
Three sons
Three sons