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<\/a><\/p>\nChapter 5 begins with a lengthy genealogy with this preamble, or re-run\u2013 \u201cThis is the book\/scroll of the lineage of Adam: On the day God created the human in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them, and he blessed them and called their name humankind on the day they were created. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and he begot in his likeness by his image and called his name Seth.\u00a0 The rest of the genealogy is very formulaic, it mentions procreation of the next generation and then tells how long someone lived after that act,\u00a0until we get to Enoch, <\/em>and as Alter says, the change is very significant.\u00a0 The text reads beginning at 5.21: \u201cAnd Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years and he begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. And Enoch walked with God and he was no more, for God took him.\u201d\u00a0 It is significant that Lamech is the very last of the antediluvians, and the father of the one who, with his family would survive the flood\u2013 Noah. Lamech is famous for talking about taking revenge 7 times 70, and there is an echo of the \u2018sevenfold revenge\u2019 to be taken if someone harms Cain with his mark on his body.\u00a0 This becomes even more significant when in Matt. 19 Peter asks Jesus if he must forgive his brother who sins against him seven times, and Jesus says seven times seventy\u2014 using the same number as Lamech.\u00a0 In short, Jesus is reversing the cycle of violence, by offering that much forgiveness.\u00a0 But it is Lamech and his ilk, with their sin and destructive ways that leads God to regret he created humanity, and to decide to cause a massive flood, and in essence start over with Noah and family thereafter.\u00a0 Noah lives 777 years and unlike his predecessors becomes a father at the age of 500, which makes for the tenth of ten generations. A millenium is the age various of the antediluvians almost live to, but never attain, making clear even they are mortal.\u00a0 \u00a0BTW, there is no pattern of gradually decreasing age lengths due to the Fall, but all fall short of 1,000 years of life.<\/p>\nSometimes names definitely connote something about a person\u2019s nature and we are told at Gen. 5. 29 \u201cAnd he called his name Noah, to make clear \u2018this one will console us for the pain of our hands.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Nahem <\/em>is Hebrew for console and so Noah\u2019s name plays on that word.\u00a0 This name could perhaps foreshadow that after the flood Noah would be the first cultivator of grapes, and so of wine.\u00a0 Note Prov. 31.6-7 wine consoles a poor person giving them respite from the drudgery of their labor.\u00a0 This seems to be the correct interpretation because Gen. 3.17-18 is deliberately echoed here.\u00a0 \u00a0The phrase \u2018pain of our hands\u2019 is found only here, and for Eve and Adam.\u00a0 More common is \u2018the work of our hands\u2019 and in either case, the allusion is to the curse on the ground which makes producing crops hard work, causing \u2018pain of the hands\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chapter 5 begins with a lengthy genealogy with this preamble, or re-run\u2013 \u201cThis is the book\/scroll of the lineage of Adam: On the day God created the human in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them, and he blessed them and called their name humankind on the day they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":68563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15085],"class_list":["post-68743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-pain-of-our-hands"],"yoast_head":"\n
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