"God himself must have either written or dictated to Adam the events of chapter 1. Adam then added chapters 2-4 to the record and passed it on to one of his descendants, presumably on clay tablets baked or dried into pottery. Noah would have carried the sacred records on the ark. Noah and his sons would have been eyewitnesses to the events in Genesis 5:11 - 10:32. Shem must have written the last part (chapters 10:1-11:10) and given the responsibility of keeping the records to his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Terah, whom he outlived by 70 years! Evidently Moses, being raised in Egypt to be a pharaoh and having access to the best libraries and records, came into possession of the records or a copy of them, and was the inspired editor to put the records into their final form the book of Genesis."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Kent Hovind, What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), pp. 49-50
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terah
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Terah
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Terah →
Related Quotes
"And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel: "Your fathers, including Terah, the father of A…"
"This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his fathe…"
"The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 18 Arphaxad begot Shelah, and …"
"(about the genealogy of Jesus)...the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of…"
"He who lifts up his hand in a threatening manner against a fellow-man, though he may not actually strike him, is desi…"
"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to …"
"Moses, before he left Egypt, succeeded in securing for the Israelites the observance of rest on the Sabbath, by point…"
"There is no place without God's presence. Even in the bush He was present, and this was the lesson of God's omniprese…"
"The matron whom we find so often arguing with Rabbi José observed one day to that sage, 'My god is surely greater tha…"
"When praying on behalf of Pharaoh to remove the plague of hail from him, Moses went out of the town to do so (Exodus …"