God is spirit and in Hebrew the word spirit is Ruach.

The basic image of Ruach is breath.

There's an invisible energy that I breathe in and breathe out, that's Ruach.

And then I look out in the world and I see the Ruach blowing in the trees and the grass

and that's an animating energy.

And it's the very thing that I take in, what I inhale.

Calling God's invisible, energizing presence, Ruach is a metaphor.

Whatever beautiful mind is behind all of this, the first uncaused cause, so to speak,

that generates and animates all of this and sustains it, this must be a result of that being's

Ruach.

Hey, this is John at Bible Project and today we begin a new journey.

We're going to read through the Bible slowly, movement by movement, tracing biblical themes.

This is our attempt to learn how to read the Bible while we read the Bible.

These conversations are a companion to the reading journey that you can do in our app.

So if you haven't downloaded the Bible Project app, I recommend you do so.

A movement of scripture is a large section of chapters and stories that altogether make

a coherent, beautiful whole.

Every scroll in the Hebrew Bible generally has three or four movements.

And while we read through a movement of scripture, we're going to trace one biblical theme.

We're going to find where it appears in its key words and synonyms.

We're going to use those words as links that help us uncover that theme.

This is the beginning of our journey, so we're going to begin in the first movement of the

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