Show Don't Tell: Genesis 11:10-26

Instead of saying "This is the genealogy from Shem to Abram," watch the lifespans shorten. After the flood, something changes. Shem lives 600 years—still long, but less than before. His son, 438. The numbers keep falling: 433, 404, 239. Feel humanity diminishing, mortality tightening its grip with each generation. But the names are moving somewhere. This isn't random record-keeping; it's a narrowing focus. From all the nations, one line. Ten generations after Noah, a man named Terah has three sons in Ur of the Chaldeans: Abram, Nahor, and Haran. The stage is set. The camera zooms in. Everything before this has been prologue. Now the story is about to begin.