The Book of Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, is an account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, Israel's ancestors, and the origins of the Jewish people. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word,
Chapter 1 consists of 36 verses and gives an overview of how God created the world in 6 days. The[...]
Chapter 2 It introduces the completion of creation where God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to[...]
Chapter 3 describes how the serpent deceived the woman. The serpent convinced Eve to eat the[...]
Chapter 4 covers the whole story of Cain and his brother Abel- sons of Adam and Eve. After God[...]
Chapter five describes the generations of Adam, from Seth to Noah. Adam lived to 930 years.[...]
Chapter 6 describes how the wickedness increased on the earth. God was regretful and decided to[...]
God commanded Noah and his household to enter the ark and take seven pairs of clean animals,[...]
The wind passed over the earth, and the floods abated. Noah sent a raven and two doves out of the[...]
Chapter 9 talks of how God blessed Noah and his family and blessed them to be fruitful and multiply[...]
Chapter 10 covers Noah's descendants and how the nations grow and spread across the earth. His[...]
In this chapter, the tower of Babel is built. God saw the tower and the city and observed that[...]
Chapter 12 is the beginning of Genesis's patriarchal history, telling the story of the earliest[...]
Abram goes back to Bethel, where he built an Ark. God promised to fulfill his promise, and he's[...]
Four kings in Sodom and Gomorrah go to war and capture Lot. Abram rescues Lot, and a priest named[...]
Deep darkness surrounds Abram at night, and God's word comes to Abram. The Lord tells him that his[...]
Abram's wife Sarai is barren, and God gives Abram an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. Hagar[...]
God made a covenant with Abram renaming him Abraham and renaming Sarai Sarah. He promises them a[...]
Three visitors appear to visit and introduce themselves as angels. Abraham invites them in to have[...]
Two angels appear to Lot in Sodom, where he invites them as his guests. The inhabitants demand to[...]
Abraham says that Sarah is his sister in Gerar. King Abimelech took Sarah, but God warned him in[...]
As promised, Sarah bore a son named Isaac. She ordered Hagar and Ishmael to be sent away, but the[...]
God instructed Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham obliged, and when he was about to, the angel of[...]
Sarah died at the age of 127 at Kiriath-Arba. Abraham bought the field of Ephron to use the cave as[...]
Abraham doesn't want Isaac to marry a Canaanite and dispatches a servant to Nahor to find his son a[...]