"#1 Primeval History contains stories or myths about the __________ of the earth,________, languages, and other creatures."

#2 The following are included hi the Primeval History category:

• Adam & Eve involving ______________________ and __________________

• Cain & ___________ (Genesis 4: 1-16) involving Personal Sin.

• ____________ and the great flood (Genesis 6: 5-9: 17).

• ___________________ ___ ______________ (Genesis 11: 1-9) — The last of the primeval stories.

#3 The story of Cain and Able illustrates that humans degenerate into ______ when left to their own devices. Sin leads to the __________ of a brother.

#4 Abel was a _____________ and Cain was a _____________. Abel represents early Israelites who were shepherds and Cain represents the more settled Canaanite farmers who already occupied the __________________ _____________

#5 Cain kills his brother out of______________ because Abel’s offering was more pleasing to Yahweh.

"#6 Cain, is “marked,” and is banished from the land and condemned to a life of ___________________(a nomad). However, punishment does not mean abandonment because the Lord is a God of_______________ and ____________"

"#7 WIth Noah and the flood, comes God’s next stage of _____________. Noah becomes the next new ancestor or new ________________ for humankind."

#8 God wished to destroy the earth with the flood because of ____________ and sin.

#9 God forms a new ______________________ with Noah.

"#10 The sign of the new covenant is the ___________,a symbol of God’s love and presence. It is a reminder to us that God continues to ____________ humanity despite its sinful and weak nature."

#11 The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)Is the last of the ______________ stories or events.

"#12 This story involves the sin of__________ brought into the world by the sin of _______ . In this story, an entire city tries to make itself ______________"

"#13 There are two stories combined in this ____________ story. The first story involves the building of a tower, probably a Mesopotamian-type temp known as a __________. The second story involves God’s commandment to _____________ and populate the world. The Church teaches that God willed the __________ __________ of his creatures with their own particular _____________ interdependence, and order."

#14 Babel (a clever play on the Hebrew word for”__________“)is used to explain the diversity of languages among the world’s people.

#15 Two explanations of this story are provided by the author of the textbook One involves the sin of__________ ____________ which caused the Lord to confuse the ________________ of the world. The second explanation includes the perspective that the ___________________ of the people under one ___________ was good for those who ruled over those who worked. God liberated the people by scattering them into___________ languages.

"#16 Remember that ___________. was significant for the ancient Hebrews because this great empire conquered ___________________ and destroyed the ___________ Babylon passed into history as a _______________ for any oppressive empire or state. In the __________ ________________________, Babylon is the Roman Empire."