Chapter 4
Cain and Abel | Genesis 4:1-16
Cain’s family | Genesis 4:17-26
Chapter 5
Genealogy: From Adam to Noah | Genesis 5:1-32
Genesis 5:1–2 (NRSV)
This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them “Humankind” when they were created.
Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan
Mahalalel
Jared
Enoch (walked with God and “was no more”)
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah = “out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”
Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Chapters 6-9
Genesis 6:1-8 | YHWH is grieved
Genesis 6:9-22 | Noah and the Ark
Genesis 7:1-24 | The Flood
Genesis 8:1-22 | Life is Restored
Genesis 9:1-17 | God’s Promise to Noah
Genesis 9:18-28 | Noah and His Sons (things quickly go bad again)
After Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden the story gets worse. Each generation of their offspring leads to every increasing violence. Eventually God allows chaos to crash back in on the land and a flood washes the earth clean. God rescues Noah’s family and a remnant of all land and sky animals.
These illustrations come from a presentation of readings designed for the Easter Vigil. View the presentation HERE.
Chapter 10
Genesis 10:1-32 | The Table of Nations
Someday I might draw something about this passage. nothing yet…
Chapter 11
Genesis 11:1-9 | The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:10-32 | From Shem to Abram
The PowerPoint below says “A Cartoonist’s Guide to Pentecost” but it actually offers two possible ways to interpret the Tower of Babel story in light of Pentecost in Acts 2.
