Genesis is a book about origins. The creation of the world; the first man, the first woman, the first sin; the origin of languages. The early history of the world including Noah's flood. It describes God's dealings with the patriarchs (the founding fathers of the nation of Israel):
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From Creation to Babel |
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1:1 - 2:4 |
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2:5 - 2:25 |
The Garden of Eden - Adam , the first man - Eve, Adam's wife |
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4 |
Cain and Abel - Adam and Eve's first sons |
5 |
Adam's descendants |
6 - 9 |
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10 |
Noah's descendants |
11:1-9 |
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11:10-32 |
Descendants of Shem |
Abraham (at first called Abram) |
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12:1-9 |
His call and God's promises |
12:10-20 |
Goes down to Egypt |
13:1-13 |
Abraham and Lot (his nephew) separate |
13:14-18 |
More promises made by God |
14:1-16 |
Abraham rescues Lot |
14:17-24 |
Melchizedek - both priest and king |
15 |
God's covenant (agreement) with Abraham |
16 |
Ishmael (founder of the Arab nations) born |
17 |
Name changed to Abraham. Circumcision given as a sign of the covenant. |
18:1-15 |
The promise of a son by his wife Sarah |
18:16-33 |
Abraham intercedes for Sodom |
19:1-29 |
Angels rescue Lot from Sodom before its judgement |
19:30-38 |
Lot's descendants, the Moabites and Ammonites, sinfully conceived |
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Abimelech - Abraham's folly nearly spoils God's plan |
Isaac |
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21 |
Isaac, the son of promise, born. Ishmael, the son of the slave woman, cast out |
22 |
God tests Abraham - is he prepared to give up his only son? |
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Sarah dies. Abraham buys a burial ground. |
24 |
A wife, Rebekah, for Isaac |
25:1-11 |
Abraham dies |
25:12-18 |
Ishmael's descendants |
25:19-26 |
Isaac's children, Jacob and Esau born |
26:1-5 |
God repeats the Abrahamic promise to Isaac |
26:6-33 |
Isaac follows in his father's footsteps - repeats his folly, has similar dealings with the people of the land |
26:34-35 |
Esau marries two Hittite women, grieving his parents |
Jacob (later called Israel) |
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25:27-34 |
Obtains the birthright from his brother Esau |
27 |
Jacob cheats Esau out of his father's blessing |
27:41-28:5 |
Makes a timely departure |
28:10-22 |
Jacob's ladder |
29:1-30:24 |
Marries Rachel and Leah and has sons by them and their maids |
30:25-43 |
Jacob's wages |
31 |
Jacob flees, Laban catches up, they reach an agreement (make a covenant) |
32:1-23 |
Sends gifts ahead to pacify Esau |
32:24-32 |
Wrestles with God |
33 |
Meets Esau, but continues to Succoth |
34 |
The treachery of Simeon and Levi |
35:1-15 |
God repeats the Abrahamic promise to Jacob |
35:16-20 |
Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin |
35:22-29 |
Reuben's sin, Jacob's sons, Isaac dies |
36 |
Esau's descendants |
Joseph |
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37 |
Coat of many colours. Dreams. Brothers' plot against him. |
38 |
Judah and Tamar |
39 |
Changing fortunes - slave � manager of the household � prisoner � in charge of the other prisoners |
40 |
Interprets the dreams of the chief cupbearer and chief baker who are also in prison |
41:1-57 |
Interprets Pharaoh's dreams and is made prime minister |
Chs 42 - 45 |
Brings his brothers to repentance for their earlier mistreatment of him |
46:1-47:12 |
Jacob and all his children and grandchildren go to Egypt and they settle in the province of Goshen |
47:13-31 |
Joseph manages the famine-struck nation astutely |
48:1-50:14 |
Jacob blesses his grandchildren Ephraim and Manasseh and each of his sons (the twelve tribes of Israel), then dies and is buried |
50:15-21 |
True forgiveness - despite the brothers' misgivings |
50:22-26 |
Joseph dies - but his bones are not to be left in Egypt |
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