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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.
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GENESIS OUTLINE:
- FOUR EVENTS (1 - 11)
- FOUR PEOPLE (12 - 50)
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GENESIS CHAPTER 1
1 Creation (broad perspective)
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 1:24-27
1:24-27 6th day of creation
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Adam & Eve
Adam & Eve - the first humans
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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.
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GENESIS CHAPTER 2
2 Creation (focus on man)
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GENESIS CHAPTER 3
3 Temptation, Fall, Curses
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GENESIS CHAPTER 4
4 Cain & Abel, Cain's line -- civilization
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GENESIS CHAPTER 6-8
6-8 Flood: deliverance in the Ark
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GENESIS CHAPTER 9
9 Noahic covenant, curse of Canaan
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GENESIS CHAPTER 11
11 Babel: dispersion of nations
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GENESIS CHAPTER 12
12 Abrahamic covenant established
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GENESIS CHAPTER 18-19
18-19 Sodom & Gomorrah
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GENESIS CHAPTER 22
22 Isaac is offered up
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GENESIS CHAPTER 32
32 Jacob wrestles w/God
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GENESIS CHAPTER 37
37 Joseph is sold by his brothers
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GENESIS CHAPTER 49
49 Jacob blesses his sons
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 1:31
1:31 Creation is declared "very good."
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 2:24
2:24 A man shall leave, cleave, and weave
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 3:15
3:15 The promised seed (see below)
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 6:1-4
6:1-4 The "sons of God"
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 12:1-3
12:1-3 Abrahamic covenant
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 35:9-12
35:9-12 Jacob becomes "Israel."
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GENESIS KEY PASSAGE 50:20
50:20 "God meant it for good."
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Cain
Cain - Adam's first son; the murderer of his brother Abel; a wanderer.
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Abel
Abel - murdered second son of Adam
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Enoch
Enoch - Father of Methuselah; walked w/God; never died but was taken.
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Noah
Noah - walked w/God, built ark, father of Shem, Ham & Japheth; cursed Canaan.
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Shem
Shem - Noah's eldest, ancestor of Abraham
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Nimrod
Nimrod - hunter, great King, founder of cities, son of Cush.
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Terah
Terah - Abram's father, left Ur for Haran
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Abraham
Abraham - father of nation Israel
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Lot
Lot - Abram's nephew, dweller in Sodom
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Sarah
Sarah - Abraham's wife, Isaac's mother
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Melchizedek
Melchizedek - priest, king of Salem
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Isaac
Isaac - son of Abraham & Sarah, father of Jacob
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Esau
Esau - Isaac's first born, sold birthright
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Rebekah
Rebekah - Isaac's wife, favored Jacob
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Jacob
Jacob - (Israel) Father of 12 tribes
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Leah
Leah - Jacob's less loved first wife
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Rachel
Rachel - Jacob's beloved wife, mother of Joseph, dies bearing Benjamin
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GENESIS KEY PEOPLE: Joseph
Joseph - Son of Jacob, sold as slave, exalted in Egypt
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