Let us begin in the book of Genesis chapter 10, which is not the place that one could begin. We could have begun in the Garden of Eden. But this is a very clear beginning for it because I want to show us that Israel's roots are also in the world.
Here is the world as we know it at its beginning, after the Flood, through the family of Noah. Now we begin to see the breaking of those families into a variety of parts, each of which became a nation of itself, so we see:
