Laws Of God
Were there no Laws from Adam to Moses as some teach? Did God leave the earth without any moral code of Laws for some 2500 years after creation? A close study of the book of Genesis and the first 19 chapters of Exodus will convince the honest hearted that all those Ten Precepts were recognized rules of life in that period.
Paul does not teach God left the earth without a Moral Law from Adam to Moses. “Sin was in the world” from Adam to Moses, and “Sin is not imputed when there is no Law.” Both of these facts contradict the idea of no Moral Law before Moses’ days. In 1 John 3:4, we read, “Sin is the transgression of the Law.” And in Romans 4:15, Paul wrote, “Where no Law is, there is no transgression.” “Without the Law sin is dead” (Rom.7:7-8). Sin cannot exist without the Law. And Paul teaches plainly that death did reign during that time because of Sin, even over those who had not sinned: evidently speaking of the children who died before the age of knowing right from wrong. In Romans 5:12 Paul had told us, “By one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin.” Again, we face the fact that Adam could not have sinned without the Law. This is a universal law for both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under Sin, condemned by one and the same Law: the Ten Commandments. “Whereby the Law is Holy, and The Commandments Holy and Just, and Good.” By the Law Sin become exceeding sinful to both Jews and Gentiles. And this goes back to Adam.
God has had a perfect moral code of Law from creation. Even though it was not given in writing until we got to Moses’ time at Mt Sinai. A close study of the book of Genesis and Exodus shows that those people recognized all the Ten Commandments as rules of life, a standard to live by.
In the beginning God created the Heavens and Earth and all that is there in including Adam and Eve, and the Garden of Eden for them to dwell in. Two special trees were placed in the midst of the Garden of Eden. One was the tree of life and the other was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The three temptations basic to human nature were embodied in the tree of knowledge! (1) Lust of the flesh. (2) Lust of the Eyes. (3) Pride of Life. Eve saw that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was, (1) good for Food, (2) Pleasant to the eyes, (3) the fruit was desirable, to make one wise (Pride of Life)! Since Sin is Transgression of the Law, then, we must look for a Law that was in the Garden! Genesis 1:16-17 gives both the first Law and the penalty for breaking it!
There had to be a Law for Adam and Eve to break or transgress, or there could have been no Sin! At Mt Sinai God gave verbally and in writing the Ten Commandments on Two Tables of Stone. At Eden, God gave the Ten Commandments verbally to Adam and it was handed down from generation to generation. Adam transgressed those Laws, Noah preached it, Abraham obeyed it, and later it was written on Tables of Stone by God in the days of Moses.
Jude 11 “Woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain” (Jude 11), Cain slew his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1-4). Cain, having killed his brother, dug a hole and buried him in the earth (Exodus 20:13), hoping, thereby to prevent the murder from being known (1 John 3:12), and it is evident that Cain expected to fall by the hands of some person who had the right of the avenger of blood; now that the murder is found out, he expected to suffer death for it (Genesis 1:14).
God called them to remember it (Genesis 2:1-3), as if He had said, do not forget that when I had finished My Creation I instituted the Sabbath, and remember why I did so, and for what purpose (Isaiah 58:13-14): The word Sabbath signified “Rest” or cessation from labor (Hebrews 4:3-7). The sanctification of the seventh day is commanded (Exodus 20:8). But the things signified by the Sabbath are that rest in glory, which remain for the people of God; therefore the moral obligation of the Sabbath must continue till time is swallowed up in eternity. “The Sabbath was made for man” (Mark 2:27). This takes us back to Genesis 2:1-3, not back to Exodus 20. God made the Sabbath, by blessing and sanctifying the Seventh day for man. To sanctify means to set apart for a sacred purpose. It would take the command of God to set apart the seventh day for man. God promised Israel as they journey through the wilderness that he would rain bread from heaven once a day but on the sixth day, He would rain twice that amount on the sixth day to last then for two days so they would not be working on the seventh (Exodus 16:4).
“If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My Holy Day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the Holy of the Lord, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” (Isaiah 58:13-14).
Put away the strange gods that are among you (Genesis 35:2, Exodus 20:1-3). These gods belong to Laban, Jacob’s father in law, which Rachel his wife stole. Jacob orders them to be put way. Baalam and Ashtaroth, these were not two particular deities, but two generations of idols: the one masculine, Baalam, the other feminine, Ashtaroth, which signify all of their “gods” and “goddesses” (1 Samuel 7:3). God warned Israel what would happen if they did not keep his laws when He told them “ye shall make no idols nor graven image, to bow down into it (Leviticus 26:1-4).
When Jacob left his father-in-law Laban, Rachel stole her father’s images. Laban pursued Jacob and accused him of stealing his gods (Genesis 31:26-27; 30; Exodus 20:15). Jacob did not know that his wife was guilty. Laban was told to search for them. This he did, but he did not find them.
Jacob worked for Laban for seven years for Rachel, the young daughter, and then he found out the next morning after the wedding that Laban had given Leah instead of Rachel (Genesis 29:20-26). Laban had deceived or lied to Jacob. It was a recognized sin to lie or deceive a person, as Laban’s case. Potiphar’s wife lied about Joseph when he refused to commit adultery with her (Genesis 39:7-9). Cain lied to God when he said he did not know where his brother Able was after he killed him (Genesis 4:7-9). Abraham lied about his wife to the Pharaoh of Egypt when the Pharaoh discovered Sarai was his sister (Gen.12:13).
Plagues were, as it is evident they were understood by Pharaoh as proof of the disapproval of God: and, consequently, even at this time in Egypt there was some knowledge of God’s Laws, and the knowledge of Sin and true religion (Genesis 12:16-20). Joseph’s reply to Potiphar wife’s invitation to come lie with her: "can I do this great wickedness and sin against God" (Genesis 39:9)? Joseph gives two most powerful reasons for his noncompliance with the wishes of his mistress: (1) Gratitude to his master, to whom he owed all that he had; (2) His fear of God, in whose sight it would be a heinous offense, and who would not fail to punish him for it.
Respect and honor of parents was also a rule of life, as shown by Judah’s attitude when he pleads for Benjamin’s life. Judah’s address to Joseph is perhaps one of the most tender affecting piece of natural oratory ever spoken or penned; and we need not wonder to find when Joseph heard it he could not refrain himself, but wept aloud.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness” (Proverbs 16:31). “For everyone that curseth there father or their mother shall be put to death (Exodus 20:12): they that curse their father or their mother; there blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:9).
We have found that it was a sin to: lie, steal, covet, to commit adultery, worship idols, breaking of the Sabbath, dishonoring parents, all Ten Commandments before the days of Moses; before God declared and wrote the Ten Commandments in Exodus chapter 20:1-17. We find no record of the commandments giving in regard to these matters until those Ten Precepts are given in Exodus chapter 20. Yet the Scriptures abundantly prove that there was sin and wickedness upon the earth.
Jethro, Moses father-in-law gave some sound advice to him to aid him in ruling and guiding the children of Israel in the wilderness: “provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, person of wisdom, discernment, judgment, prudence, and fortitude: for who can be a ruler without these qualifications? Who are truly religious, without whom they will feel little concerned either for the bodies or souls of the people. Doing all for God’s sake, and love to man” (Ex.18:17-25). Of Abraham, God said the reason he blessed him and called him a “friend of God” was because “Abraham obeyed My Voice, and kept My Charge, My Commandments, My Statutes, and My Laws” (Gen.26:5).
Noah, God’s “preacher of righteousness” was no doubt teaching God’s Laws before the flood, as he warned the people to turn from their sins (2 Peter 2:5). They were in a state of “wickedness.” All was corrupt within, and all unrighteous without. This wickedness was “Great,” it was continually increasing and multiplying, increase by increase, so that the whole earth was corrupt before God and was filled with violence. Again we face the fact that these men could not have sinned without a Law (Gen.6:1-5).
Adam could not have sinned without Laws. Without this rule of right, one cannot be held accountable for his wrongdoing. It was Adam’s transgression, the knowledge of evil, lest he put forth his hand and takes also of the tree of life, and eats and lived forever in this miserable state (Genesis 3:6). God removed him, and guarded the place lest he should re-enter. Therefore, because of his disobedience, the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden (Gen.3:22-24; Rom.5:19-20).
The men of Sodom and Gomorrah were sinners exceedingly (Gen.13:12-13). God could not find ten righteous people in there, and He destroyed them, after leading Lot and his family out to safety (Gen.19:12-17). Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their grievous sins, chief of which was sodomy. Man lying with man! Obviously, had there been no known law against homosexually, God would not have destroyed these cities. What Law is Paul talking about that gave Adam and those before Moses’ days the knowledge of sin (Rom.3:20)? This is a Universal Law for both Jews and Gentiles; that we are all under sin, condemned by one and the same Law. This Law extends back to Adam. Paul is speaking of one Code of Laws, and he leaves doubt as to what code he refers to in Romans 7:7-12. This is a quote from the Ten Commandments. This should settle any doubts about that Holy Law for Christians to obey. By this Law sin becomes exceedingly sinful to both Jews and Gentiles, as we have shown by the Scriptures. And this goes back to Adam. “Thou shall not covet” (Exodus 20:17).
There was a Law from Adam to Moses as in Rom.5:13, it states, “sin is not imputed when there is no Law.” Did God impute sin to people before Moses’ time? The answer is definitely yes, He did. True, we do not find it written until in Exodus, but it was an unwritten Law, the Ten Commandments, from the creation of man to Mount Sinai. How could Noah preach righteousness if there was no Law to regulate morals in his time? Noah lived 350 years after the flood, preaching God’s Laws, so the new population of the earth would know God’s moral Laws.
Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden, and God gave him possession of the garden. God made every kind of bird, animal, and reptiles before He made Adam. Adam gave each of them a name. God also gave Adam Laws to live by: The Ten Commandments.
After Abel’s death and Cain’s banishment, Adam and Eve had another son, whom they named Seth and had many other children, although the Bibles does not name them. When Seth was a hundred and five years of age he had sons and daughters. By that time there were a great many people in the world, and men had learned to pray to God. Adam himself told his children, and his grandchildren, and their grandchildren, about the time he had lived in the Garden of Eden. He would explain why they had been driven out, and warned all against yielding to the temptation of sin. Because God had given him the Law to live by: The Ten Commandments, Adam could warn and explain to them just what sin was. Adam could have spoken to the great-great-great grandchildren, and to even more, because he lived to the age of 930 years. Seth begat Enos, his first born, and Seth begat many sons and daughter, and lived 912 years, telling the story of what happened in the Garden of Eden, and how God had given Adam Laws to live by. Enos lived 905 years. Enos begat Cainan and others sons and daughters, and Cainan lived 910 years. Cainan begat Mahalaleel and he begat Jared and other sons and daughters, and he lived 895 years. Jared begat Enoch and other sons and daughters, Jared died at the age of 962 years. Enoch begat Methuselah and other sons and daughters, and lived to the age of 365 years. Methuselah begat Lamech, and other sons and daughters. Methuselah lived 969 years and then died. Lamech begat Noah and had other sons and daughters, and Lamech lived 777 years.
Although Enoch was a holy and righteous man, his children and grandchildren were not, and eventually they became so wicked that God grew discourage with man. Also God was displeased, because the descendant of Seth, although they worshipped God, they began to marry women who were descended from Cain, and had wholly or partly stopped worshipping God.
Seventy years after Enoch’s death Noah was born. He proved to be a man who walked with God by being obedient. Even though he lived in that wicked world for 599 years, he never disobeyed God. He was a man that loved God as Abel and Enoch did, and he was a good man in the eyes of God. Noah was a righteous man, he proved himself faultless among his generations. Noah walked with the God (Gen.6:9). His love of what is good in God’s eyes made him different from the rest of the people of his days, and the Lord decided to save him and his family. So, Noah passed the Laws of God down to his generation.
In obedience to God’s command to become many and fill the earth, Noah’s sons and their wives began bringing forth children. Thus, as time passed, the earth begins to have more and more people on it. But as they grew in numbers, the worship of God grew less. The people lost sight of the good example of faith and devotion set by Noah and his sons.
Hundreds of years have passed away. Joseph was long dead, and all his brothers. A new generation of Israelites now lived in Egypt. There may have been as many as three million Israelites living in Egypt. This is when Moses was born. The Lord told Moses to come to Mount Sinai. God said that He would give Moses Tables of Stones with the Ten Commandments written upon them. Those are the same Ten Commandments that Paul said were Holy, Just and Good.
The Ten Commandments was given to Adam, passed down to each generation, as they told the story of what happened in the Garden of Eden and about God’s Law’s until He gave Moses the Table of Stone with the Ten Commandments written upon them, that God had written with His own finger.
If you would like to repent of breaking God's Holy Laws and promise to live by them, pray for His Guidance.
Were there no Laws from Adam to Moses as some teach? Did God leave the earth without any moral code of Laws for some 2500 years after creation? A close study of the book of Genesis and the first 19 chapters of Exodus will convince the honest hearted that all those Ten Precepts were recognized rules of life in that period.
Paul does not teach God left the earth without a Moral Law from Adam to Moses. “Sin was in the world” from Adam to Moses, and “Sin is not imputed when there is no Law.” Both of these facts contradict the idea of no Moral Law before Moses’ days. In 1 John 3:4, we read, “Sin is the transgression of the Law.” And in Romans 4:15, Paul wrote, “Where no Law is, there is no transgression.” “Without the Law sin is dead” (Rom.7:7-8). Sin cannot exist without the Law. And Paul teaches plainly that death did reign during that time because of Sin, even over those who had not sinned: evidently speaking of the children who died before the age of knowing right from wrong. In Romans 5:12 Paul had told us, “By one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin.” Again, we face the fact that Adam could not have sinned without the Law. This is a universal law for both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under Sin, condemned by one and the same Law: the Ten Commandments. “Whereby the Law is Holy, and The Commandments Holy and Just, and Good.” By the Law Sin become exceeding sinful to both Jews and Gentiles. And this goes back to Adam.
God has had a perfect moral code of Law from creation. Even though it was not given in writing until we got to Moses’ time at Mt Sinai. A close study of the book of Genesis and Exodus shows that those people recognized all the Ten Commandments as rules of life, a standard to live by.
In the beginning God created the Heavens and Earth and all that is there in including Adam and Eve, and the Garden of Eden for them to dwell in. Two special trees were placed in the midst of the Garden of Eden. One was the tree of life and the other was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The three temptations basic to human nature were embodied in the tree of knowledge! (1) Lust of the flesh. (2) Lust of the Eyes. (3) Pride of Life. Eve saw that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was, (1) good for Food, (2) Pleasant to the eyes, (3) the fruit was desirable, to make one wise (Pride of Life)! Since Sin is Transgression of the Law, then, we must look for a Law that was in the Garden! Genesis 1:16-17 gives both the first Law and the penalty for breaking it!
There had to be a Law for Adam and Eve to break or transgress, or there could have been no Sin! At Mt Sinai God gave verbally and in writing the Ten Commandments on Two Tables of Stone. At Eden, God gave the Ten Commandments verbally to Adam and it was handed down from generation to generation. Adam transgressed those Laws, Noah preached it, Abraham obeyed it, and later it was written on Tables of Stone by God in the days of Moses.
Jude 11 “Woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain” (Jude 11), Cain slew his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1-4). Cain, having killed his brother, dug a hole and buried him in the earth (Exodus 20:13), hoping, thereby to prevent the murder from being known (1 John 3:12), and it is evident that Cain expected to fall by the hands of some person who had the right of the avenger of blood; now that the murder is found out, he expected to suffer death for it (Genesis 1:14).
God called them to remember it (Genesis 2:1-3), as if He had said, do not forget that when I had finished My Creation I instituted the Sabbath, and remember why I did so, and for what purpose (Isaiah 58:13-14): The word Sabbath signified “Rest” or cessation from labor (Hebrews 4:3-7). The sanctification of the seventh day is commanded (Exodus 20:8). But the things signified by the Sabbath are that rest in glory, which remain for the people of God; therefore the moral obligation of the Sabbath must continue till time is swallowed up in eternity. “The Sabbath was made for man” (Mark 2:27). This takes us back to Genesis 2:1-3, not back to Exodus 20. God made the Sabbath, by blessing and sanctifying the Seventh day for man. To sanctify means to set apart for a sacred purpose. It would take the command of God to set apart the seventh day for man. God promised Israel as they journey through the wilderness that he would rain bread from heaven once a day but on the sixth day, He would rain twice that amount on the sixth day to last then for two days so they would not be working on the seventh (Exodus 16:4).
“If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My Holy Day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the Holy of the Lord, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” (Isaiah 58:13-14).
Put away the strange gods that are among you (Genesis 35:2, Exodus 20:1-3). These gods belong to Laban, Jacob’s father in law, which Rachel his wife stole. Jacob orders them to be put way. Baalam and Ashtaroth, these were not two particular deities, but two generations of idols: the one masculine, Baalam, the other feminine, Ashtaroth, which signify all of their “gods” and “goddesses” (1 Samuel 7:3). God warned Israel what would happen if they did not keep his laws when He told them “ye shall make no idols nor graven image, to bow down into it (Leviticus 26:1-4).
When Jacob left his father-in-law Laban, Rachel stole her father’s images. Laban pursued Jacob and accused him of stealing his gods (Genesis 31:26-27; 30; Exodus 20:15). Jacob did not know that his wife was guilty. Laban was told to search for them. This he did, but he did not find them.
Jacob worked for Laban for seven years for Rachel, the young daughter, and then he found out the next morning after the wedding that Laban had given Leah instead of Rachel (Genesis 29:20-26). Laban had deceived or lied to Jacob. It was a recognized sin to lie or deceive a person, as Laban’s case. Potiphar’s wife lied about Joseph when he refused to commit adultery with her (Genesis 39:7-9). Cain lied to God when he said he did not know where his brother Able was after he killed him (Genesis 4:7-9). Abraham lied about his wife to the Pharaoh of Egypt when the Pharaoh discovered Sarai was his sister (Gen.12:13).
Plagues were, as it is evident they were understood by Pharaoh as proof of the disapproval of God: and, consequently, even at this time in Egypt there was some knowledge of God’s Laws, and the knowledge of Sin and true religion (Genesis 12:16-20). Joseph’s reply to Potiphar wife’s invitation to come lie with her: "can I do this great wickedness and sin against God" (Genesis 39:9)? Joseph gives two most powerful reasons for his noncompliance with the wishes of his mistress: (1) Gratitude to his master, to whom he owed all that he had; (2) His fear of God, in whose sight it would be a heinous offense, and who would not fail to punish him for it.
Respect and honor of parents was also a rule of life, as shown by Judah’s attitude when he pleads for Benjamin’s life. Judah’s address to Joseph is perhaps one of the most tender affecting piece of natural oratory ever spoken or penned; and we need not wonder to find when Joseph heard it he could not refrain himself, but wept aloud.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness” (Proverbs 16:31). “For everyone that curseth there father or their mother shall be put to death (Exodus 20:12): they that curse their father or their mother; there blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:9).
We have found that it was a sin to: lie, steal, covet, to commit adultery, worship idols, breaking of the Sabbath, dishonoring parents, all Ten Commandments before the days of Moses; before God declared and wrote the Ten Commandments in Exodus chapter 20:1-17. We find no record of the commandments giving in regard to these matters until those Ten Precepts are given in Exodus chapter 20. Yet the Scriptures abundantly prove that there was sin and wickedness upon the earth.
Jethro, Moses father-in-law gave some sound advice to him to aid him in ruling and guiding the children of Israel in the wilderness: “provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, person of wisdom, discernment, judgment, prudence, and fortitude: for who can be a ruler without these qualifications? Who are truly religious, without whom they will feel little concerned either for the bodies or souls of the people. Doing all for God’s sake, and love to man” (Ex.18:17-25). Of Abraham, God said the reason he blessed him and called him a “friend of God” was because “Abraham obeyed My Voice, and kept My Charge, My Commandments, My Statutes, and My Laws” (Gen.26:5).
Noah, God’s “preacher of righteousness” was no doubt teaching God’s Laws before the flood, as he warned the people to turn from their sins (2 Peter 2:5). They were in a state of “wickedness.” All was corrupt within, and all unrighteous without. This wickedness was “Great,” it was continually increasing and multiplying, increase by increase, so that the whole earth was corrupt before God and was filled with violence. Again we face the fact that these men could not have sinned without a Law (Gen.6:1-5).
Adam could not have sinned without Laws. Without this rule of right, one cannot be held accountable for his wrongdoing. It was Adam’s transgression, the knowledge of evil, lest he put forth his hand and takes also of the tree of life, and eats and lived forever in this miserable state (Genesis 3:6). God removed him, and guarded the place lest he should re-enter. Therefore, because of his disobedience, the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden (Gen.3:22-24; Rom.5:19-20).
The men of Sodom and Gomorrah were sinners exceedingly (Gen.13:12-13). God could not find ten righteous people in there, and He destroyed them, after leading Lot and his family out to safety (Gen.19:12-17). Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their grievous sins, chief of which was sodomy. Man lying with man! Obviously, had there been no known law against homosexually, God would not have destroyed these cities. What Law is Paul talking about that gave Adam and those before Moses’ days the knowledge of sin (Rom.3:20)? This is a Universal Law for both Jews and Gentiles; that we are all under sin, condemned by one and the same Law. This Law extends back to Adam. Paul is speaking of one Code of Laws, and he leaves doubt as to what code he refers to in Romans 7:7-12. This is a quote from the Ten Commandments. This should settle any doubts about that Holy Law for Christians to obey. By this Law sin becomes exceedingly sinful to both Jews and Gentiles, as we have shown by the Scriptures. And this goes back to Adam. “Thou shall not covet” (Exodus 20:17).
There was a Law from Adam to Moses as in Rom.5:13, it states, “sin is not imputed when there is no Law.” Did God impute sin to people before Moses’ time? The answer is definitely yes, He did. True, we do not find it written until in Exodus, but it was an unwritten Law, the Ten Commandments, from the creation of man to Mount Sinai. How could Noah preach righteousness if there was no Law to regulate morals in his time? Noah lived 350 years after the flood, preaching God’s Laws, so the new population of the earth would know God’s moral Laws.
Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden, and God gave him possession of the garden. God made every kind of bird, animal, and reptiles before He made Adam. Adam gave each of them a name. God also gave Adam Laws to live by: The Ten Commandments.
After Abel’s death and Cain’s banishment, Adam and Eve had another son, whom they named Seth and had many other children, although the Bibles does not name them. When Seth was a hundred and five years of age he had sons and daughters. By that time there were a great many people in the world, and men had learned to pray to God. Adam himself told his children, and his grandchildren, and their grandchildren, about the time he had lived in the Garden of Eden. He would explain why they had been driven out, and warned all against yielding to the temptation of sin. Because God had given him the Law to live by: The Ten Commandments, Adam could warn and explain to them just what sin was. Adam could have spoken to the great-great-great grandchildren, and to even more, because he lived to the age of 930 years. Seth begat Enos, his first born, and Seth begat many sons and daughter, and lived 912 years, telling the story of what happened in the Garden of Eden, and how God had given Adam Laws to live by. Enos lived 905 years. Enos begat Cainan and others sons and daughters, and Cainan lived 910 years. Cainan begat Mahalaleel and he begat Jared and other sons and daughters, and he lived 895 years. Jared begat Enoch and other sons and daughters, Jared died at the age of 962 years. Enoch begat Methuselah and other sons and daughters, and lived to the age of 365 years. Methuselah begat Lamech, and other sons and daughters. Methuselah lived 969 years and then died. Lamech begat Noah and had other sons and daughters, and Lamech lived 777 years.
Although Enoch was a holy and righteous man, his children and grandchildren were not, and eventually they became so wicked that God grew discourage with man. Also God was displeased, because the descendant of Seth, although they worshipped God, they began to marry women who were descended from Cain, and had wholly or partly stopped worshipping God.
Seventy years after Enoch’s death Noah was born. He proved to be a man who walked with God by being obedient. Even though he lived in that wicked world for 599 years, he never disobeyed God. He was a man that loved God as Abel and Enoch did, and he was a good man in the eyes of God. Noah was a righteous man, he proved himself faultless among his generations. Noah walked with the God (Gen.6:9). His love of what is good in God’s eyes made him different from the rest of the people of his days, and the Lord decided to save him and his family. So, Noah passed the Laws of God down to his generation.
In obedience to God’s command to become many and fill the earth, Noah’s sons and their wives began bringing forth children. Thus, as time passed, the earth begins to have more and more people on it. But as they grew in numbers, the worship of God grew less. The people lost sight of the good example of faith and devotion set by Noah and his sons.
Hundreds of years have passed away. Joseph was long dead, and all his brothers. A new generation of Israelites now lived in Egypt. There may have been as many as three million Israelites living in Egypt. This is when Moses was born. The Lord told Moses to come to Mount Sinai. God said that He would give Moses Tables of Stones with the Ten Commandments written upon them. Those are the same Ten Commandments that Paul said were Holy, Just and Good.
The Ten Commandments was given to Adam, passed down to each generation, as they told the story of what happened in the Garden of Eden and about God’s Law’s until He gave Moses the Table of Stone with the Ten Commandments written upon them, that God had written with His own finger.
If you would like to repent of breaking God's Holy Laws and promise to live by them, pray for His Guidance.