During these chapters, I noticed that each generation lives a little less than the previous one, but they give no explanation at all. As each father gives children, they satr dying a little younger each time. Just like the Bible said:
He also broke it again by sending Abraham to "the promised land". Why does God want Abraham to go to this land so much? He shows so by saying:"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12:1-3). It seems God wants to start over with a new nation. He already failed with the descendants of Adam starting with Cain murdering Abel. He killed all of their descendants in the flood except for Noah and his family. Apparently, he doesn't trust them too much, since he gave them different languages so they couldn't understand each other, and hence had to be dispersed across the land. Now he wants Abraham to go to this Promised Land and maybe make a country of God's followers. He blessed him and his following generations (unlike Adam to which he cursed for eternity) so they could thrive in this land he promised to Abraham if he decided to go there. Apparently God doesn't want to give up on humans yet. He still has some hope that at least one human turns out to be what he expected when he decided to create humans so they could rule the Earth (Genesis 1: 28).
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