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GENESIS: BEGINNINGS

PRIMEVAL HISTORY,
1-11

PATRIARCHAL HISTORY,
12-50

Creation,
1-2

Abraham,
12:1-25:11

Fall,
3-4

Isaac,
21:1-35:29

Genealogy,
5

Genealogy,
25:12-28

Flood,
6-9

Jacob,
25:19-49:33

Genealogy,
10

Genealogy,
36

Tower of Babel,
11:1-9

Joseph,
37:1-50:26

Genealogy,
11:10-32

Major characters #

  • Adam (“red”) & Eve (“life, living”)
  • Noah (“rest or comfort”)
  • Abraham (“father of a multitude”)
  • Isaac (“laughter”)
  • Jacob (“supplanter, deceiver”)
  • Joseph (“he will add”)

Major events #

  • Creation, 1-2
  • Fall of man, 3
  • Noah’s flood, 6-9
  • Tower of Babel, 11
  • Abraham Covenant, 12, 15
  • Sacrifice of Isaac, 22
  • Jacob’s ladder, 28
  • Jacob to Egypt, 46
  • Israel’s blessing, 48-49

Major themes #

  • Sin and its consequences
  • The promises of God

Christ in all the Scriptures #

  • The Seed, 3:15
  • The Ark, 7:1
  • Melchizedek, 14:18-20
  • Isaac, 22
  • Joseph, 37-50

J. B. Nicholson Jr. notes that the story of Genesis can be told in three words:

  • Generation by Divine power
  • Degeneration by human rebellion
  • Regeneration by Divine love
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