The Patriarchs & the Flood

Genesis after Eden: Noah and the flood, Babel, Sodom, and the patriarchs.

• two by two IDIOM In pairs, one alongside another.
• Tower of Babel IDIOM A grand, over-ambitious project that collapses into confusion and a breakdown in communication.
• Sodom and Gomorrah IDIOM A place or scene of extreme wickedness, vice, and moral ruin.
• a pillar of salt IDIOM The fate of someone who cannot stop looking back at the past instead of moving forward.
• Jacob's ladder IDIOM A link between the earthly and the heavenly, or by extension a long, steep climb.
• a coat of many colors IDIOM A conspicuous mark of favouritism that stirs up envy in others.
• old as Methuselah IDIOM Extremely old; ancient.
• forty days and forty nights IDIOM A long, unbroken period of trial, hardship, or waiting.