These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah. ……….When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. And Nahor livedContinue reading “Genesis 11: 10-26…..Shem leads to Semitic.”
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Genesis 11: 1-9…..The world’s tallest building
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.Continue reading “Genesis 11: 1-9…..The world’s tallest building”
Genesis 9: 26 – ch10 v32……Names galore!
He also said,“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;and let Canaan be his servant.May God enlarge Japheth,and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,and let Canaan be his servant.”After the flood Noah lived 350 years. All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.These are the generations of the sons ofContinue reading “Genesis 9: 26 – ch10 v32……Names galore!”
Acts 7: 44-50…. Who is God and where does He live?
“Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was untilContinue reading “Acts 7: 44-50…. Who is God and where does He live?”
Acts 7: 37-43……Moses and worship in early Israel.
This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give toContinue reading “Acts 7: 37-43……Moses and worship in early Israel.”
Acts 7: 31-36…..A forty years trek!
When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord: I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look. Then the Lord said toContinue reading “Acts 7: 31-36…..A forty years trek!”
Acts 7: 25-30…..Forty years in a paragraph.
He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarrelling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ But the man who wasContinue reading “Acts 7: 25-30…..Forty years in a paragraph.”
Acts 7: 17-24…..Moses walks onto the story scene.
“But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph. He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be keptContinue reading “Acts 7: 17-24…..Moses walks onto the story scene.”
As I read it! 