Genesis

  1. GENESIS THEME:
    Beginnings/Covenants/Generations

    • Genesis describes the origin of the human race, the introduction of sin into the world, the confusion of languages, and the
    • Divine choice of Israel based on promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  2. GENESIS OUTLINE:
    • FOUR EVENTS (1 - 11)
    • FOUR PEOPLE (12 - 50)
  3. GENESIS CHAPTER 1
    1 Creation (broad perspective)
  4. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 1:24-27
    1:24-27 6th day of creation
  5. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Adam & Eve
    Adam & Eve - the first humans
  6. GENESIS KEY DATES:
    • Genesis was written by Moses in the years following the Exodus in 1445 B.C.
    • Creation: unknown, if genealogies in Gen. 5 and 10 are incomplete.
    • Possibly ca. 10,000 - 5000 B.C.
    • Flood: As above, unknown.
    • Abraham: ca. 2165 B.C. - 1990 B.C.
    • Joseph: ca. 1914 B.C. - 1804 B.C.
  7. GENESIS CHAPTER 2
    2 Creation (focus on man)
  8. GENESIS CHAPTER 3
    3 Temptation, Fall, Curses
  9. GENESIS CHAPTER 4
    4 Cain & Abel, Cain's line -- civilization
  10. GENESIS CHAPTER 6-8
    6-8 Flood: deliverance in the Ark
  11. GENESIS CHAPTER 9
    9 Noahic covenant, curse of Canaan
  12. GENESIS CHAPTER 11
    11 Babel: dispersion of nations
  13. GENESIS CHAPTER 12
    12 Abrahamic covenant established
  14. GENESIS CHAPTER 18-19
    18-19 Sodom & Gomorrah
  15. GENESIS CHAPTER 22
    22 Isaac is offered up
  16. GENESIS CHAPTER 32
    32 Jacob wrestles w/God
  17. GENESIS CHAPTER 37
    37 Joseph is sold by his brothers
  18. GENESIS CHAPTER 49
    49 Jacob blesses his sons
  19. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 1:31
    1:31 Creation is declared "very good."
  20. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 2:24
    2:24 A man shall leave, cleave, and weave
  21. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 3:15
    3:15 The promised seed (see below)
  22. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 6:1-4
    6:1-4 The "sons of God"
  23. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 12:1-3
    12:1-3 Abrahamic covenant
  24. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 35:9-12
    35:9-12 Jacob becomes "Israel."
  25. GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 50:20
    50:20 "God meant it for good."
  26. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Cain
    Cain - Adam's first son; the murderer of his brother Abel; a wanderer.
  27. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Abel
    Abel - murdered second son of Adam
  28. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Enoch
    Enoch - Father of Methuselah; walked w/God; never died but was taken.
  29. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Noah
    Noah - walked w/God, built ark, father of Shem, Ham & Japheth; cursed Canaan.
  30. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Shem
    Shem - Noah's eldest, ancestor of Abraham
  31. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Nimrod
    Nimrod - hunter, great King, founder of cities, son of Cush.
  32. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Terah
    Terah - Abram's father, left Ur for Haran
  33. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Abraham
    Abraham - father of nation Israel
  34. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Lot
    Lot - Abram's nephew, dweller in Sodom
  35. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Sarah
    Sarah - Abraham's wife, Isaac's mother
  36. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Melchizedek
    Melchizedek - priest, king of Salem
  37. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Isaac
    Isaac - son of Abraham & Sarah, father of Jacob
  38. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Esau
    Esau - Isaac's first born, sold birthright
  39. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Rebekah
    Rebekah - Isaac's wife, favored Jacob
  40. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Jacob
    Jacob - (Israel) Father of 12 tribes
  41. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Leah
    Leah - Jacob's less loved first wife
  42. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Rachel
    Rachel - Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph, dies bearing Benjamin
  43. GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Joseph
    Joseph - Son of Jacob, sold as slave, exalted in Egypt
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Genesis
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