Noach - × ×— : "Noah"
Torah : Genesis 6:9-11:32
Haftarah : Isaiah 54:1-55:5
Gospel : Matthew 3-4

Thought for the Week:

Legend says that when God spoke the Torah at Mount Sinai, He spoke it in the seventy languages of mankind so that all humanity might hear and understand the summons. The Bible says that when He gave the Spirit at Pentecost, the Gospel was given utterance in all languages. Even today, the Word of God is still being translated into the languages of all humankind. Very soon there will be no spoken language on earth where the Gospel is not proclaimed

Commentary:

Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. (Genesis 11:1)

At the tower of Babel, God descended to confuse the languages and disperse the peoples. The Torah uses two different words for language. Both "lip" and "tongue" are employed to indicate language. Thus, to say that a person "speaks in tongues" is to say "he speaks multiple languages." Genesis 11:1 literally says, "And it was that all the earth was one lip." Had our apostolic writers chosen this Hebrew term for language (lip) we would today wonder over the Acts 2 phenomenon of "speaking in ...