Genesis 4 - 36

This week I learned, don't get behind! I let stuff at work and just weird scheduling to let me fall back on my daily scripture study. I finished out the week where I am supposed to be, but that is only the result of some hard and heavy scripture reading on Sunday.

I did come across a nifty website though this week, www.standardworks.org lets you set up an RSS feed to deliver to your browser every day the scriptures that you need to read that day to stay on target with your goal. I don't know about you but I think that is a brilliant idea.

So, what did I learn from this weeks scritpure study? Well, I read about Noah, Babel, the Abrahamic Covenant, and a lot of other stuff. I also read a lot of genealogy. So and so lived for so many years and begat so and so and then lived for this many more years before they died. Genesis provides the genealogy of the first 1000 or so years of biblical history in one long list. It's a little dry to read and I am left wondering why it was seen as so important.

One little tidbit I did glean from that genealogical record though was that Noah was the patriarch/prophet of the first generation to be born after the death of Adam. Now how's that for interesting. He is the first patriarch to get a staring roll in the OT after Adam, the next big name if you will, and he is also the first one on the scene after his death. I think that is an interesting little detail.

In this batch of scripture study I am left wondering why so many of the OT prophets lie to those around them. Abraham lies to the Egyptians about his wife and tells them she is his sister (ew), and then his son Isaac does the same thing with his wife.

Over all I feel like there is quite a bit that I am missing from the original intent of the Old Testament. I look forward to my future study of the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price as they add some needed context to what I am reading now, but sadly that does not roll around until much later this year.

Anyways, that is all my thoughts for now. I am not sure if weekly updates on this is going to work. There is just so much volume that I read through during the course of the week for me to be able to make cogent comments on all of it. I may have to try going to a daily format, but I am concerned that the load will be to much.

Oh well, that is for later. TTFN.