Bible Wisdom Today
June 1, 2026

The Creation and Recreation of the World

Summary Chart of Genesis 1-11

Creation

Destruction - Flood        

   

Recreation

                                                                  1:1

darkness was over the deep, 1:2

God blessed [the animals]: be fruitful and increase, 1:22

God blessed [mankind]: be fruitful and increase, 1:28

I give you every green plant for food, 1:30

 

God took the man and put him in the Garden to work it and care for it, 2:15

 8:1

Springs of the deep…had been closed, 8:2

[the animals] be fruitful and increase, 8:17

 

God blessed Noah and his sons…be fruitful and increase, 9:1,7

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you, 9:3

Noah…proceeded to plant a vineyard, 9:20

                                                                       3:1

Adam and Eve ate fruit of the tree

Realized they were naked, v. 7                        

9:20

Noah drank the fruit of the vine

Saw his father naked

                                                                      4:1

Contrast between brothers Cain/Abel

You [Cain] are under a curse                            

                                                                    9:23

Contrast between brothers 

Cursed be Canaan 

                                                                             4:17

Expansion of mankind

genealogy of Cain, 4:26

                                                                             10:1

Expansion of mankind

table of nations

                             5:1

Genealogy Seth to Noah  

(10 generations)

11:1

Tower of Babel                                   

Name (shem) for ourselves

6:1

Sons of God                                              

Men of renown (shem), 6:4

                    11:10

Genealogy Shem to Abram 

(10 generations)                                         
The last two sections are reversed in the second column. Perhaps because the Sons of God provide a nice transition to the story of the flood, and the Genealogy of Shem to Abram provides the transition to the story of Abraham
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