Creation To Terah

Creation To Terah
1. In The Beginning
2. Creation Week Day 1
3. Creation Week Day 2
4. Creation Week Day 3
5. Creation Week Day 4
6. Creation Week Day 5
7. Creation Week Day 6
8. Creation Week Day 7
9. More About God's Creation
10. The Sad Story Of Sin
11. Cain And Abel
12. Enoch, Seventh Generation From Adam
13. God Calls Noah
14. Noah Enters The Ark And The Flood Comes
15. God Watches Over The Ark
16. God Makes A Covenant With Noah And His Sons
17. Life After The Flood
18. The Lord Scattered The People
19. Terah, Ninth Generation From Noah, Father Of Abram

1. In The Beginning - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth had no shape. Darkness was everywhere. And the Spirit of God moved over the waters that covered the earth.

2. Creation Week Day 1 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:3-5
God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. God saw that the light was good and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day and He called the darkness night. This was the first evening and morning, one day.

3. Creation Week Day 2 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:6-8
Next God said, "Let there be air to separate the waters below from the waters above." So God made the sky between the waters on the earth and waters above the earth. God called the air between the waters above and the waters below heaven. This took place in an evening and a morning, the second day.

4. Creation Week Day 3 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:9-13
Then God gathered the waters under the heavens together into one place making dry land appear. He called the dry land Earth and the waters He called Seas. He saw that what He had done was good. Then He made vegetation. There were plants bearing seed and capable of reproducing. And there were fruit trees bearing fruit capable of reproducing from its seed. So the earth brought forth grass and herbs, each with its own seed, and trees with fruit containing its own seed after its kind. And God saw that it was good. He did this during the evening and the morning of the third day.

5. Creation Week Day 4 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:14-19
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the heavens to divide the day from the night. They are to determine the seasons, the days and the years. Let their light shine upon the earth." Here is what He did. He made two great lights, the greater light was to rule the day and the lesser light was to rule the night. He also made stars. God set these in the sky to give light to the earth. They were to rule over the day and the night, dividing the light from the darkness. God saw that what He had done was good. And this evening and morning were the fourth day.

6. Creation Week Day 5 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:20-23
Then God said, "Let the waters bring forth moving creatures in abundance and birds to fly in the air above the earth." He created great sea creatures and other creatures that live in the water. These were abundant, and each was capable of reproducing after its own kind. God was please with all of this. He blessed these creatures, saying, "Be fruitful and fill the waters in the sea, and let the birds multiply on the earth." And that evening and morning was the fifth day.

7. Creation Week Day 6 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 1:24-31
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures, each after its own kind: cattle as well as creeping things and other kinds of beasts on the dry land." And it was so. God made them all, beasts, cattle and creeping things, each one after its own kind. And God saw that it was good.

And then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish and the birds, the cattle, as well as the other beasts and everything that moves on the ground." So God created man in His own image. He created them male and female. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." And God said to them, "I have given you every herb bearing seed and every tree bearing fruit with seed to be your food. And to the beasts of the earth, the birds of the air and every creeping thing I have given every green herb." And it was so. God saw all that He had made and it was very good. And this evening and morning was the sixth day.

8. Creation Week Day 7 - Back to Page Index
Genesis 2:1-3
The previous chapter told us how the earth with its atmosphere was created along with everything else on the earth.

And on the seventh day God rested from all His work of creating the earth and its inhabitants. He blessed the seventh day and set it aside because it was the day after He had finished creating the earth.

9. More About God's Creation - Back to Page Index
Genesis 2:4-25
This is the account of the time when God created the heavens and the earth.

There was a time just before God had made man when no herb had yet grown, for God had not watered the earth and there was no one to cultivate the ground. Then a mist went up from the earth and watered everything. Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground. The LORD God planted a garden to the east in Eden where He put the man He had made. And out of the ground the LORD made every tree grow that is pleasant to look at and good for food. And He placed the tree of life in the middle of the garden. He also placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil there. A river flowed out of Eden. After watering the garden it split into four rivers. The first is named Pison. It goes through the entire land of Havilah where there is gold. The gold there is of a fine quality. It also has bdellium and onyx stone. The second river is Gihon. It flows through all of Ethiopia. The third river is the Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. He told the man that he could eat freely of any tree in the garden, except from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From this tree he was never to eat. Should he eat from this tree he would surely die.

The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make someone suitable as his helper." So the LORD God brought every sort of beast and bird to Adam to see what he would call it, and that became its name. Adam gave names to all the cattle, to every bird and to every beast of the field. But he did not find even one who could be his helper.

Then the LORD God caused Adam to sleep. While he slept God took out one of his ribs and closed up the opening. And from Adam's rib He made the woman and brought her to the man. When Adam saw her he recognized that she was like him. He called her Woman because she was taken out of Man. This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother, to be joined to his wife, so that they become one flesh. They were both naked and were not ashamed.

10. The Sad Story Of Sin - Back to Page Index
Genesis 3:1-24
At that time the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. The serpent spoke to the woman, saying, "Is there any tree in the garden that God has told you that you must not eat from?" The woman answered, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of this garden." But God told us we may not eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden, or touch it. If we do this we will die. The serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. God knows that on the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." When the woman saw the tree as good for food, she liked what she saw, and believed it would make her wise. So she picked some of its fruit and ate it. Then she took some to her husband, and he ate it with her, and disobeyed with her. Both of them now had their eyes opened. They saw that they were naked. Feeling the need to be covered, they made aprons from fig leaves to cover themselves.

In the cool of the evening they heard the LORD God walking in the garden and they hid themselves among the trees, for they didn't want Him to see them. The LORD God called to Adam, saying, "Where are you?" Adam answered, "I heard your voice in the garden and was afraid, because I was naked and hid myself." God said, "Who told you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree I told you not to eat from?" And the man answered, "The woman you gave me brought some of its fruit to me and I ate it." Then The LORD God said to the woman, "What have you done?" The woman replied, "The serpent deceived me and I ate from the tree." Then the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this you are cursed above all cattle and beasts of the field. You will move about on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. I will put animosity between your offspring and her offspring. One from her seed will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel."

And He said to the woman, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth and your conception. Nevertheless, your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

To Adam He said, "Because you have listened to your wife and eaten from the tree which I commanded you not to eat from, lest you die, the ground is now cursed. Making a living and getting what you need from it will be a struggle all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles will vie for space with the plants you grow in the field. Eating will require your sweat until you return to the dust of the ground from which you were taken. You are dust and to dust you shall return."

Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skins for Adam and Eve so that they would not be naked. And the LORD God said, "See, the man has become like Us, knowing good and evil. If he continues to eat from the tree he will live forever." So the LORD God sent Adam out of the garden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. Then He stationed cherubim with flaming swords at the garden's edge to guard the way to the tree of life.

11. Cain And Abel - Back to Page Index
Genesis 4:1-15
Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "The LORD has given me a manchild." She had another son whom she named Abel. He was a shepherd of flocks while Cain cultivated the ground.

In the course of time Cain brought some of his produce as an offering to the LORD. Abel also brought an offering from the best of his flock. The LORD showed regard for Abel and his offering. God showed no regard for Cain and his offering. This made Cain despondent and then angry. The LORD spoke to Cain, asking him, "Why are you angry? If you do well will it not make you happy? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door trying to control you. You must master it."

Cain found a time to talk with his brother Abel while they were in the field. Here he attacked Abel and killed him. The LORD came to Cain and asked him, "Where is your brother Abel?" He replied, "I do not know. Is it my responsibility to keep track of him?" Then God said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground. Now you are cursed from the ground which received your brother's blood when you killed him. From now on when you cultivate the ground it will not yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a vagrant on the earth." Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great for me! You have driven me from the use of the ground and from Your presence. As a fugitive and a vagrant I will be killed by whoever finds me." The LORD said to Cain, "Whoever kills you will have vengeance taken on him sevenfold." For this reason the LORD set a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him.

12. Enoch, Seventh Generation From Adam - Back to Page Index
Genesis 5:21-24
Enoch lived sixty five years and then became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after Methuselah was born. He also had other sons and daughters. All the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. Enoch walked with God. And he was not found, for God took him.

13. God Calls Noah - Back to Page Index
Genesis 6:1-22
It came about that when ungodly men began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the godly young men saw the daughters of the ungodly as very desirable. They took these young women as wives without considering their spiritual condition. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man. He is flesh and is prone to sin. His days shall be shortened to one hundred and twenty years."

There were giants on the earth in those days. As the godly men married the ungodly women, their children became the renowned mighty men of old. The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the heart was evil continually. He was deeply grieved that He had made man on the earth. The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created. I will destroy man and animal, creeping things and the birds, for I am sorry that I made them." But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time and he walked with the LORD. He became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and filled with violence. As God looked over the earth, He saw that all flesh had corrupted their ways. God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all flesh, for the earth is filled with their violence. Make an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it and cover it with pitch inside and out. Here is the plan you shall use. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits (450 feet). Its breadth will be fifty cubits (75 feet) and its height thirty cubits (45 feet). Make a window for the ark one cubit (18 inches) from the top. Set a door on the side, and make the ark with a lower, second and third deck."

"Behold, I am bringing a flood upon the earth to destroy all flesh, everything with the breath of life. Everything on the earth shall perish. But I will establish My covenant with you. You shall enter the ark with your wife, your sons, and your son's wives. And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring a male and a female into the ark, so that they will be kept alive with you through the flood. This will include each kind of bird and each kind of animal, as well as every creeping thing. There will be two of everything in order to keep them alive through the flood. And you are to take food for yourself and all the animals with you." Noah did everything just as the LORD had commanded him.

14. Noah Enters The Ark And The Flood Comes - Back to Page Index
Genesis 7:1-24
The LORD said to Noah, "I want you to enter the ark with your household, because you alone are righteous before Me at this time." You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, both male his female. Of the unclean animals take only one pair, a male and his female. Of the birds take seven, male and female, to keep them alive on the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will blot out every living thing on the earth." Noah did just as the LORD had commanded him. When the flood of water came on the earth Noah was six hundred years old.

So Noah and his wife, and their sons with their wives, entered the ark to escape the flood waters. And there came into the ark clean and unclean animals, birds and other creatures that creep on the ground. They came into the ark by twos, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. And so it was that after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day, the fountains of the deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. Noah and his family, along the animals, entered the ark on the same day, they and every beast after its kind, all the cattle after their kind, everything that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all sorts of birds, each after its kind. So they all went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded Noah. After everything was inside, the LORD closed the door.

And the flood came upon the earth for forty days. As the water increased it lifted the ark up from the earth. The floodwaters prevailed, covering more and more of the earth with the ark floating on its surface. The waters prevailed, rising higher and higher, until every mountain was covered, until it was fifteen cubits (nearly 25 feet) higher than the highest mountain. All flesh that moved on the earth perished: birds, cattle, beasts and every creeping thing. And all mankind perished, too, for everything on dry land that had the breath of life died. In this way God blotted out every living thing on the face of the earth: men, animals and birds. All were destroyed by the flood. Only Noah was left with those in the ark with him. The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days (about five months).

15. God Watches Over The Ark - Back to Page Index
Genesis 8:1-22
God remembered Noah and everything in the ark. And He caused a wind to pass over the earth to make the water subside. The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed and the rain stopped. The waters receded steadily and at the end of one hundred and fifty days (five months) the waters were much lower. In the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest within the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains were visible.

After another forty days Noah opened the window of the ark, and sent out a raven. It flew back and forth over the earth until the water was dried up. So he sent out a dove, to see if the waters were down enough to leave dry ground. The dove found no place to rest and returned to the ark. Noah waited seven more days before sending the dove out once more. Toward evening the dove returned with a freshly picked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the flood waters had gone down. Seven days later he sent the dove out once more. This time she did not return to the ark.

In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that the ground was dry. It was the second month and the twenty seventh day the earth was dry.

Then God said to Noah, "go out from the ark with your wife and your sons and your son's wives. Bring every living thing out of the ark, birds, animals and every creeping thing, that they may breed and multiply on the earth." So Noah and his family went out of the ark. And all of the beasts, birds and creeping things went out from the ark. Noah built an alter to the LORD and took one of every clean animal and clean bird, and offered each as a burnt offering to the LORD. The LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man whose thoughts are always evil. And I will never again destroy every living thing as I did in the flood. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease."

16. God Makes A Covenant With Noah And His Sons - Back to Page Index
Genesis 9:1-17
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful. Multiply and fill the earth. Every beast of the earth and all the birds will fear you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. I have given you every thing that is alive as food along with the green plants. But you must not to eat flesh with its blood. If you eat the blood of animals I will require your blood. And whoever sheds man's blood, then his blood shall be shed, for man is made in the image of God. But you are to be fruitful and multiply, filling the earth with your descendants."

Then God spoke to Noah and his sons, saying, "I am establishing a covenant with you and your descendants, and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the cattle and every beast of the earth, with everything that came out of the ark. I am establishing My covenant with you when I promise that I will never again send a flood of water to destroy all life on the earth." And God said, "Here is the sign of this covenant I am making with you and every living creature that is with you, for all generations. I am setting My bow in the clouds as a sign of My covenant with the earth. And whenever I bring a cloud over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud. I will remember My covenant with you and every living creature. Never again shall a flood of water destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the cloud, I will look upon it and remember My everlasting covenant with every living creature on the earth." And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between Me and all flesh on the earth."

17. Life After The Flood - Back to Page Index
Genesis 9:18-29
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. From Noah's three sons the whole earth was populated.

Noah began farming and he planted a vineyard. In time he drank the wine of it. He became drunk and lay in his tent uncovered. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside. So Shem and Japheth took a garment and laying it on their shoulders, walked backwards to cover their father, being careful not to see his nakedness. When Noah awoke from the affects of the wine, he learned what his youngest son had done. He said, "Canaan is cursed. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers." He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant." May God enlarge Japheth and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant. Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

18. The Lord Scattered The People - Back to Page Index
Genesis 11:1-9
After the flood all the people used one language. As they journeyed east, they settled on a plain in the land of Shinar. They decided to make bricks, burning them thoroughly. They used the bricks in place of stones and for mortar they used tar. Their plan was to build a city with a tower that would reach into heaven. They wanted to make a name for themselves and not be scattered over the whole earth. The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. He said, "See how the people are one people with one language. This is just the beginning. They will be able to do whatever they propose to do. Let Us confuse their language. Then they will not understand one another." So the LORD scattered them over the whole earth and they stopped building the city. The city's name was called Babel because the LORD confounded the language of all the earth. The LORD did this as a way to scattered the people over the whole earth.

19. Terah, Ninth Generation From Noah, Father Of Abram - Back to Page Index
Genesis 11:26-32
Terah lived seventy years and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Here is the record of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. Haran died while his father Terah was living in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Abram and Nahor took wives. Abram's wife was Sarai and Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran. Her sister was Iscah.

Sarai was unable to have children.

Terah took his son Abram and Abram's wife Sarai, who was his daughter-in-law, and his grandson Lot, who was Haran's son, and left Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran, and settled there. The days of Terah were two hundred and five years and he died in Haran.

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