Genesis 6-11 & Moses 8 I Come Follow Me I Handmaidens, Harems and Heroines I Lynne Hilton Wilson

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this episode, we dive into Moses chapter 8 and Genesis 6–11, exploring the powerful stories surrounding Noah, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel through a Latter-day Saint lens. These chapters highlight a world struggling with increasing wickedness, yet still touched by prophetic warnings, covenants, and divine mercy. Viewers will gain insight into how the Joseph Smith Translation in the book of Moses expands the biblical account, especially in emphasizing the role of preaching, repentance, and moral agency before the Flood. The discussion connects these ancient events to modern discipleship, asking what it means to remain faithful in a corrupt society. Special attention is given to the women mentioned or implied in these chapters—such as the “daughters of men” in Genesis 6, Noah’s wife, and the wives of his sons—who are often overlooked but are essential to the story of preservation and covenant continuity. Their presence reminds us that families, marriages, and righteous women were central to God’s plan to carry humanity forward after the Flood. By noticing these women in the text, this episode invites viewers to read more carefully and see how both men and women participate in God’s work across generations, helping build a bridge from the world before the Flood to the renewed world that followed.

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0:00.0	The ark is about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
0:06.0	This is an enormous wooden boat.
0:08.0	However, the Titanic was bigger than Noah's Ark, which means the Queen Mary is even bigger still.
0:14.0	Whenever a man marries a woman in God's law, in the new and everlasting covenant.
0:21.6	In verse 19 it says, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of Promise,
0:26.6	it shall be, and then they go on to talking about how their names are recorded in the Book of Life.
0:35.6	Hello, I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson and I'm so excited to talk about Noah's family today.
0:41.3	We at Scripture Central tried to build enduring faith in Jesus Christ by illuminating and restored scripture.
0:48.3	The Old Testament has fabulous examples of handmaidens and heroines and harlots,
0:52.3	and I feel like today we are able to jump into Noah's
0:56.6	family and get a beautiful view with Moses 8 of some of these great women. You know, the chapter
1:02.7	begins talking about the daughters of men versus the sons of God. And as I mentioned earlier,
1:07.5	that people of the Bible, I guess it was a couple weeks ago, we had another reference to the children of God or the children of men,
1:14.6	and they didn't quite understand that they're righteous people or wicked people.
1:20.6	They thought that the sons of God were actual angels coming down and reproducing with the daughters of men and it was a wicked
1:28.6	out spring that we don't see it that way you know we with restored scripture
1:33.1	we're able to see that these are all Eve's grandchildren and children and
1:37.4	Adam and Eve have been preaching to them but some choose righteousness and
1:41.4	some do not and so we get a combination of this. But Enix great
1:47.1	grandson is Noah. And he is left on the earth with his wife and many of his posterity.
1:56.1	Three of his sons are righteous. And they each have righteous wives. The wicked are destroyed.
2:04.1	And as Noah is left on the earth to preach repentance, only Noah and his sons harkened to the Lord.
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