1. Genesis 2-5: Adam, Cain, Noah

Gen 2: the garden of Eden

No rain. So needs a servant (Adam) to dig irrigation.

Planted lots of trees. Including tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Garden in Eden (the plains outside the city). 

River went out of Eden. Parted into four: 

1. The Pison, which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold
2. The Gihon: compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
3. The Hiddekel: goes toward the east of Assyria. 
4. The Euphrates.

If he eats of the tree of knowledge he will be killed.

Adam slept. The Lord took one of his ribs and made a woman (Eve). 

Gen 3: they rebel

Serpent tells Eve she can eat from the tree and not be killed.

Instead they will be like the gods.

They ate, and made clothes like the gods.

The lord came for a walk in the garden, and they hid.  He said, who told you to have clothes?

Curses the serpent: they are now enemies.

Curses Adam and Eve, says he will make their lives unpleasant. Bans them from his land.

Placed Cherubims at his border "with a flaming sword" to keep people out.

Gen 4: Cain

Adam and Eve son Cain, "I have gotten a man from the LORD" - rape?

Cain: farmed the ground. The brother Abel farmed animals. Each paid tax to the landlord. Landlord did not like Cain. Said that Cain killed Abel, but had no proof (did not know where Abel was). Cursed Cain. 

Cain went to live in Nod, east of Eden. Had a son, Enoch. Built a city, named it after Enoch. Sokme descendants nomads. Others created musical instruments and metalwork. Lamech said he killed a man.

Gen 5-9: Noah

"Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."

"all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Population growth

"the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." Their children became strong and popular.

The Lord saw this as wickedness: a threat to his system, Vowed to kill everybody through flooding.

Told Noah to make a boat from gopher wood, and covered in pitch. Save seven of every clean beast and two of the rest.

Floods came. "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered."

40 days, then the rainy season ended and temporary rivers dried up (i.e "fountains of the deep" no longer gave water). 150 days: back to normal. Noah sent a raven: he came back. Then a dove: he did not.

Boat now rests on (toward?) the mountains of Ararat.

God said Noah could rule and kill all animals, but not eat their blood.

Forbade murder.

Rainbow = reminder of covenant with Noah

Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: Got drunk. Ham saw him naked. So Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan.