Genesis 36:40–43
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Genesis is a book of genealogies. Many modern readers, accustomed to a diet of spiritual junk food, find their eyes glazing over when they come to a chapter like this one. It seems like a dusty old phone book, full of unpronounceable names and irrelevant details. But to do this is to miss the entire point. These genealogies are crucial because God made a promise in the garden, a promise of a Seed who would crush the serpent's head. And so, from that moment on, the central drama of all human history is the story of two lines, two seeds, two cities, two posterities. There is the seed of the woman, and there is the seed of the serpent. And God's people, from the very beginning, were watching the genealogies with eagle-eyed intensity, tracing the line of promise.