Daily Bible Reading: 11.19.08

Genesis 7-10:5; 1 Chronicles 1:5-7; Genesis 10:6-20; 1 Chronicles 1:8-16; Genesis 10:21-30; 1 Chronicles 1:17-23; Genesis 10:31-32

So you might be wondering why all these short passages from Chronicles are being inserted in my reading. I am reading through the bible over the course of the next year but I am doing it chronologically. I found this cool site that sets up a plan where you can read what happens in the Bible in the order it actually happened, which is kinda cool. I think it will give me a better understanding of how the events unfold and how certain things in different books are linked. I highly recommend trying it out! Onto the reading!

Genesis 7

SO Noah is gathering all the animals and his family and packing them up in the ark. Then it rains for 40 days and 40 nights, everything that isn't on the ark drowns, and then they sit there for 150 days. Fun stuff.

Genesis 8

This is where Noah sends out the dove to see if the waters had receded. After a couple of weeks the waters do recede and Noah and the gang get out of the boat. Then Noah builds an altar and sacrifices some clean animals to God. I'm going to assume those animals had procreated on the ark, otherwise Noah just doomed those animal species to extinction. But God was so please with this offering that He promises never again to destroy all living creatures...which is good news for us.

Genesis 9

Evidently up until this point we we're not allowed to eat animals? In verse 3 God gives us permission to eat everything that lives and moves. It just can't have blood still in it. We also get the first eye for and eye rule here. God says if a man is killed by another, that man will be killed as well.

The most beautiful part of this chapter is the seal God places on the covenant never to destroy the earth again: the rainbow. On a foggy day like this, I'm sure there will be a rainbow at some point, and I can see, thousands of years later, the promise God made to us all.

Then Noah's son Ham sees him naked and his brothers go cover up their dad. When Noah awakes he's pretty pissed about what happened and curses Ham's son Canaan, declaring that Shem and Japheth will be prosperous while Canaan will be their slave.

And Noah dies 350 years later, at the ripe old age of 950.

Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1:5-23

Almost identical passages about the genealogy of Noah's sons.