Covenants

Righteous Rest

a meditation on Genesis 5-11

Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God - The Prophet Moses

The next story and covenant centers around Noah (whose name means ‘Rest’ or ‘Comfort’) and is the first time the word covenant is mentioned in Sacred Scripture. Whereas what we have talked about before was a covenant with mankind, what we find with Noah is the renewal of a broken covenant and the first explicit mentions in scripture of covenant, altar, and sacrifice, among other things, as God seeks to renew what was damaged with Adam.