Everybody is so fruitful and they always multiply! I consider myself to be a god student: I do my work correctly and I turn it in on time, but I honestly only read about 7 words in chapter 10 of Genesis. Don't go thinking that I am lazy, because I'm not (sometimes), but I didnt read this chapter because it just talks about the many generations that came after Noah. I'm not even going to list all the names, but I will say this: one of the children is named Nimrod. I'm sure that back then, Nimrod was a lovely name, but if that kid went to my school today, he would deffinitely have his arse handed to him.
I'm very jealous of the life span back in that time, as seen in chapter 11, everybody seemed to live to about a thousand years old:
"And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg..."A new discovery: God created circumcision! Yeah you read that correctly. It all happens in chapter 17, when Lord God changes Abram's name to Abraham, and He changes his wife's name from Sarai to Sarah (at least the Lord knew about simplicity). Lord God decides that he and Abraham should have a covenant, "And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me an you." Theres something in this chapter that didn't settle right for me: God DID NOT get circumcised! My motto is, if I go down, Im taking you down with me, hence: If I'm getting circumcised, you better be right there next to me waiting for your turn. Anyways, Abraham and all the sons after him needs to be circumcised. Whoever is not circumcised will be damned to the fiery depths of hell forever! but not in those words exactly:
"And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant."
Both my mom and I found this to be very interesting.
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