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Genesis 9: The Law

It was common for a king to establish a code of law for his peoples. After Noah makes a sacrifice to God, we see God’s covenant and the second laws to man.

The first law was at creation:

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: bit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surly die.

Genesis 2:16-17

But now, after Noah has shown his submission to God, a new, clearer set of laws and conditions are laid down:

  1. Man’s dominion over animals – Gen 9:2
  2. Animals are there for meat – Gen 9:3
  3. No cannibalism – Gen 9:4
  4. All living things belong to God – Gen 9:5
  5. No murder or face the death penalty – Gen 9:6
  6. Be fruitful and multiply – Gen 9:7

Law 1: Man’s dominion over animals sets man distinctly apart from the animal kingdom. The was already established when Adam named the animals.

Law 2: Noteworthy because there is no distinction between clean and unclean animals.

Law 3: Laws are generally no established unless there’s a problem. There is plenty of evidence of cannibalism in Neanderthal and early Neolithic man. So it’s not implausible that this needed to be called out as a no-no if man was going to advance.

Law 4: It’s worth noting that much of the bible was codified by 12th and 13th-century monks when feudalism was already in place. While Mesopotamian kings surly saw their subjects and the beasts within their domain as property, a hierarchy is established here. This will be elaborated further with the sons of Noah.

Law 5: Many people use “Thou shalt not kill” to criticize the death penalty. Here, we clearly see that murder is punishable by death.

And what does God promise in return for obeying his laws?

He will not destroy the earth, man, his descendants of the animals of the earth with another flood. As a token of his covenant, when it rains, God will put a bow in the sky as a reminder to stop the rains before the earth is wiped out. God emphasizes that the rainbow is there to remind him. Just in case man pisses him off at some point in the future.

Noah plants a vineyard, gets drunk on his wine and passes out naked in his tent.

Ham, father of the Canaanites, sees Noah naked and runs to tell his brother. Shem and Japheth do an elaborate maneuver where they walk backwards carrying a blanket toss it over the old man.

The result of this incident? Noah curses and entire tribe of the new world:

And he said, Curse be Canaan; servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Genesis 9:25

Notable as the passages used to justify slavery in the 1800s.

Shem is blessed and he gets the Canaanites as servants while the sons of Japheth are fruitful and multiply and live in the tents of Shem – sort of tenants – with the Canaanites as their servants.

Then Noah lives another 350 years and dies at the ripe age of 950. If we go back to the theory where “year” means phases of the moon, Noah dies at age 79.

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Genesis 8: The Waters Subside

What’s shocking about the flood tale is not the role of Noah, the ark, the calamity. It’s that we see God as a human, capable of rage and vindictiveness, overreaction, childishness, remorse and contrition.

After putting his creatures through a massive tantrum leading to global destruction, grumpy God is mollified by sweet smell of burnt offerings of clean beasts and fowl:

And Noah builded and altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the alter. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Genesis 8:20-21

But there were only a handful of animals to repopulate the earth!

Notice that God doesn’t tell Noah of his commitment to the earth: he tells himself.

We have God cast a mighty King of creation, all-powerful yet prey to the same emotional foils of man. On the one hand, he’s populated the earth with his playthings: man. On the other hand, he’s deeply hurt when they get into trouble:

And God saw the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Genesis 6:5-6

I mean, he is all powerful. Why can’t he correct man’s will? Why can’t me pass his omnipotent hand over men’s minds and wash their sinful nature away?

Man’s free will seems to be the one object of creation in which God is powerless.

One is reminded of man’s relationships to dogs. Dogs were the first companion of prehistoric, aiding him in the hunt, herding his flocks, providing protection, warmth, companionship. In exchanges, man gave the dog scraps of food, friendship, and purpose: man brought the feral dog into his clan.

It seems on the surface a lopsided bargain, but how did it altar man, to have this ambassador from the animal kingdom as part of his family? Were the hunter-gatherers “domesticating” the lowly dog, or was the dog domesticating man?

Is God alone in the universe and we are his proudest invention who’ve let him down with our petty agendas and machinations? Are we teaching mighty God to be more human?

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Genesis 7: The Flood

If you believe the God was unhappy with his creation and the iniquities of man, and decided to destroy his creation by a flood, except one honest man and his family, whom he instructed to build an ark to save two of every beast and fowl, then you are a Sumerian and you worship Ishtar. Embrace it.

The Sumerians were the first known advanced civilization. Their origin is unclear, their language has no predecessor. They appeared in the plains of the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq around 4500 B.C.

They gave us language, writing, mathematics, the wheel, advanced agriculture and animal husbandry, irrigation, government administration, literature, astrology and astronomy, a clearly-defined class structure, workers guilds and the welfare state. Everything that we would call “modern society”, was invented by the Sumerians.

By a miracle, we have one of their great works of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh, preserved in cuneiform on fragile clay tablets. Gilgamesh was the hero of Sumer. He was a brash, arrogant young man who went through many trials and tests by the Gods in their attempt to civilize him, impart wisdom, and groom him to be the king of the Sumerians.

Among the tales of Gilgamesh, Ishtar decides to destroy his creation and star again. He instructs Gilgamesh to create a boat to exacting specifications and bring his family and two of each creature on the earth to repopulate. The story comes from an even older Epic of Atra-Hasis and is one of three Babylonian flood myths. Even the repetitive phrasing follows the style of Sumerian literature:

And the waters prevailed; and were increased greatly
And the waters prevailed; and all the high hills and mountains were covered
And the waters prevailed; an hundred and fifty days

Genesis 7:18,19 & 24

But how are these pagan idol-worshipers in the Bible?

When Jerusalem was conquered by the Persians, they went into exile in… Babylon. This was when the Bible was still being handed down mouth to mouth. So, the true miracle is not the dove, the rainbow, and the branch of olive. The miracle is that, except for the stories preserved by the Jews, Sumerian civilization would be forgotten for the next 6,000 years.

In turn, the Jews contribution to the story was their elimination of the pantheon of lesser gods that are part of the story and their distillation to 3 main actors: God, the damned, and Noah the good.

But back to the story and some of what it teaches us.

One, that Ishtar may choose to smite his creation if we stray too far into sin and debauchery.

Second, why would God need a man to build an ark and save enough genetic material to repopulate the earth? If God is omnipotent and all-powerful, why doesn’t he just start over? Why does he need a crusty, 600 year-old man to do his bidding? And what about the animals? They didn’t do anything wrong. Why were they destroyed too?

Unless, once God created the earth, his hands are tied. He works through man, created in His image, to act upon the material world. Meaning that we, His followers, are critical to enacting God’s will to fruition.

We are essential partners with God in the grand story. God works through us if we let him.

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Genesis 6: One Honest Man

The generations of man had devolved into corruption, sin and violence. And there were giants.

For context, the characters would have been stone age and early iron age. I think the “fall” of man was what we now call the Neolithic Revolution: one of the most important period’s in early human history. This was the relatively short period in which small clans of hunter-gathering cultivated wheat, tying them to one location. The first stone tools and pottery are found, and the storage and surplus of food allowed the clan to expand into the first permanent human settlements at the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12,500 years ago.

There are many fantastic theories of antediluvian races and civilizations, the most famous being Atlantis.

What we do know: Gobekli Tepe was a major complex in southern Turkey that dates from the pre-pottery Neolithic era, between 9500 and and abandoned in 8000 BCE. It was literally filled in with rock and rubble where it lay until its discovery in 1963. This predates Stonehenge and the first Egyptians by thousands of years. It is assumed that the megalithic structure was the first communal building project, and could have been created when man was still nomadic. The importance of a ritual site led to planting crops and tending herds to support both the builders and pilgrims to the location. In other words, the site was the impetus for settlement, if only for certain times of year.

And there were still megafauna during this period: mastodons, giant sloths. They would exist until the younger Dryas Ice Age.

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Genesis 5: From Adam to Noah

From Adam to Noah

1 This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father[b] of Enosh.

7 After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

8 Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.

10 After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

11 Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

13 After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

14 Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.

16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

20 Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

29 He named him Noah[c] and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Footnotes

a. Hebrew adam

b. Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 7-26.

c. Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.

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Genesis 4: Cain & Abel

Cain and Abel

1 Adam[a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[b] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[c] a man.”

2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.

4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?

7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.

14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so[e]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[f] east of Eden.

17 Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.

22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of[g] bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.

23 Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words.
I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.

24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”

25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,[h] saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on[i] the name of the Lord.

Footnotes

a. Or The man

b. Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought forth or acquired.

c. Or have acquired

d. Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have “Let’s go out to the field.”

e. Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew Very well

f. Nod means wandering (see verses 12 and 14).

g. Or who instructed all who work in

h. Seth probably means granted.

i. Or to proclaim

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Genesis 3: The Fall

The Fall

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.

5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring[a] and hers; he will crush[b] your head, and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

20 Adam[c] named his wife Eve,[d] because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Footnotes

a. Or seed

b. Or strike

c. Or The man

d. Eve probably means living.

e. Or placed in front

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Genesis 2: Adam & Eve

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Adam and Eve

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,

6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d] and onyx are also there.)

13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e]

14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found.

21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh.

22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Footnotes

a. Or land; also in verse 6

b. Or mist

c. The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).

d. Or good; pearls

e. Possibly southeast Mesopotamia

f. Or the man

g. Or took part of the man’s side

h. Or part

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Genesis 1: The Beginning

The Beginning

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
.א  בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ
Eh-rey-EET, ah-RAH eh-loh-HEEM, EYT hah-ah-mah-M, veh-EYT hah-rehts

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
.בב  וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם
Veh-hah–rehts, hah-yeh-tah toh- vah-voh-, veh-choh-ehch, ahl-eh-ney teh–m; veh-r–ahch eh-loh-heem, meh-rah-cheh-feht ahl-eh-ney hah-ah-m.

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
.ג  וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר
Vah-oh-mehr eh-loh-heem, yeh-hee r; vahy-hee–r.

4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”

7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,

15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,

18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.

25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Footnotes

a. Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth

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Con Job: Hoax Hate Crimes In Trump’s America

Since Election Day 2016, corporate media and civil liberties watchdogs have flooded the airwaves with horrific accounts of minority Americans terrorized by bigoted, white Trump supporters: Muslim girls with hijabs torn from their heads, playgrounds scrawled with neo-Nazi graffiti, Jewish community centers evacuated by bomb threats and black churches burnt to rubble.

And one after another, these shocking crimes turn out to be big, steaming hoaxes, reported to weary police and a salivating press by attention-seeking, campus agitators, spiteful liberals, and random malcontents using Donald Trump and “white America” as convenient scapegoats.

As they do whenever a Republican is on the ballot, the establishment Left and their media handlers spent a full eighteen months trying to link Donald Trump and his supporters with racial violence.

A week before Election Day, a 110-year-old, African American church in Greenville, Mississippi was set ablaze. 80% of the structure was destroyed and “Vote Trump” was painted on the smoldering ruin.

Cleve Wootson of the Washington Post told readers that the fire was “sparked by the incendiary rhetoric of GOP nominee Donald Trump during his presidential campaign.”

The arsonist turned out to be 45-year-old Andrew McClinton, a black member of the church.

In a jaw-dropping statement, Mississippi State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney blandly told reporters, “We do not believe it was politically motivated.”

When voters handed Donald Trump an Electoral College landslide on November 8, the media went code red and launched the first phase in a multilateral response.

The New York Times fired the opening shot the following morning with “Donald Trump Win Has Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims Bracing for a Long 4 Years”, giving hysterical activists a handy fact sheet for the white supremacist hate wave it was looking for.

On cue – a Muslim student at the University of Louisiana reported that she had been attacked by “white men wearing Trump hats” while walking to campus.

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