These are the generations of Noah

“These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”

This is the third section of the book of Genesis. We have Noah’s colophon. He was responsible for documenting his family line from Adam’s time to his own time. After this he was very busy building the ark. Noah took his tablet along with the one that God gave to Adam and Adam’s tablet onto the ark. We know that this happened even though Noah didn’t specifically say that he took the tablets on the ark. We have copies of them in the Bible so we can safely assume that they were preserved. From time to time in the Bible we find collections of document covering large periods of time. For example, 1, 2 Samuel and 1, 2 Kings. These books were all complied towards the end of the period they discuss, however the compilers took the records that were written as the events happened and collected them together for the benefit of later readers. This is also true of Moses when he wrote Genesis. This doesn’t mean that the words are not given by inspiration of God, it just means that God uses good methodology to bring us His message.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)