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7. For a detailed discussion of these animal lists, and what accounts for the differ-
ences among them, see James B. Jordan, Food and Faith: The Mosaic DietaT Laws
in New Covenant Perspective (available from Biblical Horizons, P.O. Box 132011,
Tyler, TX 75713).
8. Kline, 100-109; Jean Dani610u, From Shadows to Reali~: Studies in the Biblical
~pologJ of the Fathers, trans. Wulstan Hibberd (Westminster, MD: Newman
Press, 1960), pp. 69-102.
9. See Kline, ibid.; and Jordan, “Christianity and the Calendar: chap. 23.
10. On the robe of invested authority, see James B. Jordan, Primeval Saints: Studies
in the Patriarchs of Genesis (available from Biblical Horizons, P.O. Box 132011,
Tyler, TX 75713); and Jordan, “Rebellion, Tyranny, and Dominion in the
Book of Genesis; in Gary North, ed., Tactics of Christian Resistance. Christianity
and Civilization 3 (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries, 1983), pp. 38-80.
11. Evidence suggests that the world before the Flood was warm from pole to pole,
a situation often explained by the suggestion that the “waters above the firma-
ment” had a literal as well as a svmbolic existence in the world before the Flood.
taking the form of a water vapor canopy over the earth, which created a “green-
house” effect, and which collapsed at the Flood. Revelation 4 and other pas-
sages show that there is still a “heavenly sea” associated with the firmament, but
this does not exclude the possibility of a literal canopy. See Joseph C. Dillow,
The Waters Above: Earth’s Pre-Flood Vapor Canopy (Chicago: Moody Press, 1981);
and James B. Jordan, “Hexameron: Theological Reflections on Genesis One
(A SylIabus)” (available from Biblical Horizons, P.O. Box 132011, Tyler, TX
75713), chaps. 14-16.
12. Noah’s drunkenness might seem to be the new sin in the new garden, but the
Bible focuses on Ham’s sin and Noah’s judgment of him. I have discussed this
at length in Jordan, Primeoal Saints, chaps. 3 and 4.
13. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil had to do with investiture with
rule and authority. See Jordan, Primeval Saints, chap. 9, and Jordan, “Rebel-
lion.”
14. On the numerological structures in Genesis 10, see Umberto Cassuto, A Com-
mentary on the Book of Genesis, Part II: From Noah to Abraham, trans. Israel
Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, [1949] 1964), pp. 175-180.
15. In Hebrew, there is one word meaning “earth” in the sense of an ordered
cosmos, and another word meaning “soil” or “ground ,“ from which man was
made. The tower was made of bricks (Genesis 11:3): Abram’s blessing would
extend to all the families who were made of soil (Genesis 2:7; 12:3). Thus, the
curse on the soil, and by extension on humanity, would be removed through
the Seed of Abram (Genesis 3:17, 19).

Chapter 14 — The World of the Patriarchs

1. Olivers wrote this paraphrase in 1770. Shortened versions are found in many
hymnals. The text used in the present book is complete, and taken from John
Julian, ed., A Dictionay of Hymnology (New York: Dover Pub., [1907] 1957),
p. 1150.
2. I do not believe that this rule applied to the Gentiles outside the land and nation
of Israel. The uncircumcised Gentile priest, Jethro, led Israel in worship in Ex-
odus 18, and then returned to his own land. Did he cease worshipping at altars
thereafter? There is no reason to think so. God-fearing Gentiles continued
under the Noahic covenant until the New Covenant. The on] y change for them