A lot of time passes in Genesis 5.

We see fathers and sons names in their ages when sons were sired, and they lived a lot longer

than we do now.

In Moses 5, we receive far more detail about post-Eden life, but without necessarily

the connections to genealogy beyond Adam, Abel, Cain, and Lamek.

What are we to understand from these genealogies?

What happens when we zoom way out, like in Genesis 5, or we zoom way in and receive more detail,

like in Moses 6? We'll discuss that and more in this week's episode of Abide, a Maxwell

Institute podcast. My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public communication specialist of the Neely Maxwell Institute for religious scholarship of Brigham Young University.

Christian Heel is a research fellow at the Institute.

And each week we will be discussing the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

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We aren't here to present a lesson, or rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block, so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints

in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious

ideas. Now, Christian, what's going on in Genesis 5 and Moses 6?

Genesis 5 gives the genealogy of the 10 generations from Adam to Noah through

Seth.

It's formulaic.

It kind of feels like we're being introduced to a new history, but one which is more

telegraphic than anything we've read so far in Genesis.

In this chapter, a man is born, has a son at a certain age,

lives for a period longer, fathers other sons and daughters, and then dies. And their son has a

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