our interests slightly less than jealousy that leads to murder (Gen 4:23), which then leads to exile and wandering (Gen 4:13). The Creator nearly destroys humanity for crimes that are never explicitly revealed to us (Gen 6:5, 11). And though one righteous man, Noah, is chosen to represent humanity reborn from the flood, we only see his children in their worst moments, defying God in the city of Babel. All of these accounts are interwoven with genealogies that connect the storylines together. As modern