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Chapter 8Chapter 8 describes how God’s judgment through water comes to an end and how the earth is gradually restored to its normal condition. The saved group led by Noah begins to rebuild their relationship with God in a new world. As the waters steadily recede, Noah’s ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat (verses 1–5). To determine whether the waters had fully subsided, Noah sends out a..

Chapter 4Chapter 4 records how the fallen history of humanity, beginning with Adam, develops together with sin and secular culture. It includes the first murder in human history, in which the older brother Cain kills his younger brother Abel (verses 1–15). This event reveals how jealousy, envy, and anger in fallen humanity are expressed as the crime of murder. Following this, secular culture con..

Tip)The Jews refer to the first five books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—as the Torah (TORAH). In Hebrew, Torah means “law” or “instruction.”Each book of the Pentateuch is related to God’s covenant with the people of Israel, yet each book is independent and contains its own specific theme. The book of Genesis comes from a Greek word meaning origin, source, bir..