Time for another new section. So far we have the original day-by-day creation account, then a more focused story about the beginning of man, and now we have a genealogy record.
We start with Adam(seems like the best place), and see that after 130 years, he has Seth. We know from the previous chapter that Seth was the replacement for Abel. The line continues on from Seth, noting the birth of each firstborn son, and then mentioning the “other sons and daughters.” And while Cain should have been Adam’s firstborn, with the line going through him, it’s clear that through the murder of his brother and exile, he has been disavowed from Adam’s line, and has his own separate family now.
Everything seems to be in order for a few generations, and then all of a sudden somebody just disappears. “Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” And they tried to tell me it wasn’t possible to vanish in a puff of smoke…
A couple more generations pass, and then we get this guy called Noah. And something is different about Noah. While everyone else in the line has their first son after 65-187 years, it takes Noah until he’s 500, and then he has three. And while so far only the firstborns have been named, perhaps all of Noah's sons are included simply because they all end up playing a part in the story. Whatever the case, it took Noah long enough to get around to having some sons at all. Now what he was doing before this, I don’t know. Was he just having a ton of daughters? Or was he living a single life in a monastery somewhere? No idea.
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