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Eugene F. Roop focuses on the rich story line that traces the development of a community of faith in Genesis. He explores the important theological motifs of the book and their implications for our lives today. These themes include creation, disaster and reaction, promise and fulfillment, infertility and blessing. This commentary grew out of the study of Genesis in the congregational and...

We do not normally read the genealogies in the biblical texts. The names are difficult to pronounce and the repetition boring. We struggle to know how to read the genealogies, how we should understand them. Sometimes we find tension between different genealogical lists. For example, the names found in Genesis 4:17–26 appear also in Genesis 5:1–32, but in different order and with slight variations on some of the names. Usually we do not read the genealogies closely enough to notice
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