Hey, you are listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

I'm Shelby, and I'm here with Scott.

And today we're talking through Genesis 10 through 12.

Scott, a couple days ago, you were really helpful in walking us through some genealogies.

And in today's reading, we're going to walk through some some genealogies and in today's reading

we're going to walk through some more genealogies can you help us out with these yeah and just

to be clear we'll take a break from genealogies after this episode but but we've got what's

called the table of nations in Genesis 10 which walks through Noah's sons shim ham

and Japheth kind of spreading throughout the

earth. And the order it goes in as significant. It's Japheth, then Ham, then Shim last. And the reason

I say that's significant is Shim seems to be very important. And I mean, we see that in the fact that

after the Tower of Babel, we go back to Shem, get a more

extensive genealogy of this guy. And the interest in Shim's lines, because it's from

Shim that we get a man named Tara, and Tarah is the father of Abraham, who is going to be a very,

very important figure. Also, just fun fact, Shelby, we also get someone in this line named

Iber. And I point that out because many scholars think that's where we get the term

Hebrew from. Okay.

Which is kind of cool. But about Genesis 11, I love what one commentator, Bruce Waltke,

observed about Genesis 11, and specifically how it's different from Genesis 5, the one where,

so in Genesis 5, there was the genealogy where you get that constant line of,

then he died, then he died, then he died.

That phrase does not appear in Genesis 11, though.

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