When you read the Bible, often something in particular will be of note to you. Take note of it and consider and reflect on its meaning. Sometimes you will have more understanding of this at the time and sometimes you notice it but do not understand it and then you should wait, for God will reveal it to you in due course.

In these two chapters of Genesis, I noticed that the years that each generation was living was, with one or two exceptions, becoming gradually less.

Then we come to Noah who is the only one in the list who is presented with a comment from his father, Lamech. "This one doth comfort us concerning our work and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed."

I noticed that Lamech knew of Jehovah and he knew that the ground had been cursed by him. This teaching had continued f ...