Outline of the book of Genesis
- The Beginning of History
- Creation Narratives (1.1-2.25)
- Adam and Eve Sin (3.1-24)
- Cain and Abel - The first murder (4.1-16)
- Lamech - The second murder (4.17-26)
- Descendants of Adam (5.1-32)
- Noah and the Flood - Judgement (6.1-9.29)
- The Descendants of Noah - "Table of the Nations" (10.1-32)
- Rebellion - the Tower of Babel (11.1-9)
- The Patriarchs
- Genealogy of Abram (Abraham) (11.10-32)
- Life of Abraham (12.1-25.18)
- The call of Abram (12.1-9)
- Sister-Wife narrative - Abram, Sarai and Pharaoh (12.10-20)
- Abram and Lot separate (13.1-18)
- Abram rescues Lot - The Battle of the Four Kings (14.1-16)
- Abram and Melchizedek (14.17-24)
- The Lord's Covenant with Abram (15.1-21)
- Birth of Ishmael (16.1-16)
- Covenant of Circumcision (17.1-27)
Abram is Renamed
No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. (Genesis 17.5 NIV)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (18.1-19.38)
- Sister-Wife narrative - Abraham, Sarah and Abimelech (20.1-18)
- Birth of Isaac (21.1-7)
- Dismissal of Hagar and Ishmael (21.8-21)
- Covenant between Abram and Abimelech at Beershiba (21.22-34)
- The Akedah (binding) -- The Sacrifice of Isaac (22.1-24)
- Death of Sarah (23.1-20)
- Finding a wife for Isaac (24.1-67)
- Abraham's other sons (25.1-6)
- Death of Abraham (25.7-11)
- Descendants of Ishmael (25.12-18)
- Isaac (25.19-26.35)
- Jacob (27.1-36.43)
- Tension between Jacob and Esau (27.1-28.9)
- Jacob "steals" the blessing (27.1-40)
- Jacob is sent away (27.41-28.5)
- Esau marries an Ishmaelite woman (28.6-9)
- Jacob Ladder, Dream at Bethel (28.10-22)
- Jacob and Laban in Paddan Aram (29.1-29)
- Jacob's Family (29.30-30.24)
- Family Dymanics (29.30)
- A Child-bearing Contest--The Sons of Jacob (29.31-30.24)
- Jacob returns to Canaan (30.25-31.55)
Mizpah Benediction
"The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another." (Genesis 31.49 KJV)
- Preparation to meet Esau (32.1-21)
- Wrestling with God at Peniel (32.22-32)
Jacob renamed Israel
..."Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." (Genesis 32.28 NIV)
- Uneasy reconciliation with Esau (33.1-20)
- Difficult years (34.1-36.43)
- Tension between Jacob and Esau (27.1-28.9)
- Descendants of Esau (36.1-43)
- Joseph (37.1-50.26)
- Early life (37.1-36)
- Judah and Tamar - an tragic aside (38.1-30)
- Joseph's rise to power in Egypt (39.1-41.57)
- Joseph the prime minister of Egypt (42.1-50.26)
- Joseph's brothers' first trip to Egypt (42.1-38)
- Joseph's brothers' second trip to Egypt (43.1-34)
- Joseph's brothers' third trip - A Silver Cup in the Sack (44.1-34)
- Joseph Reveals his Identity (45.1-15)
- Jacob invited to come to Egypt (45.16-28)
- Jacob comes to Egypt (46.1-7)
- Names of those who came with Jacob (46.8-27)
- Reunion of Jacob and Joseph (46.28-34)
- Jacob and Pharaoh (47.1-12)
- Joseph's famine policies (47.13-26)
- Final blessings of the Patriarchs (47.27-50.26)
based in large part on outline.pdf 12/20/08 //broken link
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