April 17, 2018 - Day 9 - Genesis 9

Today I'm writing from a hotel in Eugene, OR.

Genesis 9:

We open with God telling Noah and his sons to be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.  But who are their kids going to increase in number with?  Incest game real strong.

God tells the clique that anything that lives and moves about will be food for them.  (sorry vegans)

God warns Noah against eating meat that has its lifeblood in it.  I think this means God orders a steak at least cooked medium, but I cannot say for sure.

Next comes a poetic reminder about not shedding human blood, though it really isn't clear what is being said.  Again we hear that mankind is made in the image of God, but with no explanation what this means.  We are often told we are made in the image of God, yet I've seen no biblical explanation yet.  I'll revisit this as we journey through the Bible, and see if anything comes up.

God reminds Noah (again) that there won't be another genocidal flood.  That is good to hear.

As a sign of this covenant between God and Noah, God decides to use a rainbow as a sign.  However God says that the rainbow is in the clouds.  This must be before God learned how rainbows work.  Or maybe Genesis was just written by a primitive person who had no idea what a cloud or rainbow actually was.  I'm going with option two.  I assume the author thought rainbows were pretty; who can blame him?

Noah's sons exit the ark, and what is the first thing Noah does?  You guessed it.  He plants a vineyard.  Noah gets hammered and passed out naked in a tent.  YOLO.  Ham (his youngest son - father of Canaan) told his other two brothers that their dad was in his birthday suit.  So they were all embarrassed and walked into the tent backwards and covered up his 600 year old cash and prizes.

Noah wakes up pissed off at Ham (not sure why - because Ham told his other brothers that his dad was naked?) and decided to curse Canaan and deem him the lowest of slaves (what an odd reason to ruin someone's life).  He was probably hungover.  I guess Noah can place curses on people?  

Then Noah dies at the ripe old age of 950.

If you died in 2018 at the age of 950, you were born in 1068.








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