Genesis 9:8-29
Genesis 9:8-29 is the canonical first iteration of the covenant-sign formula and the textbook test case of how the Hebrew lexicon resists training-data overlay. H7198 qeshet is a weapon-bow (76 OT uses, 94.7% war or hunting bow) — God hangs his weapon in the cloud, and the bow-in-cloud functions as the covenant's visible guarantee. The Ham-saw question turns on a lexical distinction the lexicon makes plain (ra'ah ervah vs galah ervah), and the curse at Gen 9:25 falls on Canaan, not Ham — MT, SP, and LXX all agree on the curse-recipient.
Genesis 5:1-32
Genesis 5 is the chapter where the fall's vocabulary becomes a family vocabulary. Ten generations descend under a metronomic formula — lived, fathered, lived more, died — until the formula breaks twice: at Enoch, who does not die, and at Lamech, who names his son Noah using the same word God used for the pain of the curse eight generations earlier.
Genesis 3:1–24
Gen 3 inverts every gift of Gen 2. The wisdom-word turns weaponized, the first command becomes the first lie by one negative particle, the man who was charged to guard the garden is replaced by cherubim guarding the way back — and in the middle of the judgment, a promise: the woman's seed will crush the serpent's head.