GENESIS

GENESIS
INTRODUCTION

THE NAME GENESIS MEANS"ORIGIN".THE BOOK TELLS ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE,THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN RACE,THE BEGINNING OF SIN AND SUFFERING IN THE WORLD,ABOUT GOD'S WAY OF DEALING WITH HUMANITY.GENESIS CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS:(1) THE CREATION OF THE WORLD AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE.HEREARE THE ACCOUNTS OF ADAM AND EVE,CAIN AND ABEL,NOAH AND THE FLOOD AND TOWER OF BABYLON (CHAPTER 1-11).(2) THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY ANCESTORS OF THE ISRAELITES.THE FIRST IS ABRAHAM,WHOWAS NOTABLE FOR HIS FAITH AND HIS OBEDIENCE TO GOD.THEN FOLLOW THE STORY OF HIS SON ISAAC,AND GREANDSON JACOB (ALSO CALLED ISRAEL),AND OF JACOB'S TWELVE SONS WITH THEIR FAMILIES TO LIVE IN EGYPT(CHAPTER 12-50).WHILE THIS BOOM TELLS STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE,IT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE.IT BEGINS WITH THE AFFIRMATION THAT GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE, AND IT ENDS WITH A PROMISE THAT GOD WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW HIS CONCERN FOR HIS PEOPLE.THROUGHOUT THE BOOK THE MAIN CHARACTER IS GOD,WHO SHAPES THEIR HISTORY.THIS ANCESTORS BOOK WAS WRITTEN TO ACCOUNT THE STORY OF A PEOPLE'S FAITH AND TO HELP KEEP FAITH ALIVE.

OUTLINE OF CONTENTS
CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE AND OF THE HUMAN RACE
1.1-2.25
THE BEGINNING OF SIN AND SUFFERING

3.1-24
FROM ADAM TO NOAH

4.1-5.32
NOAH AND THE FLOOD

6.1-10.32
THE TOWER OF BABYLON

11.1-9
From SHEM TO ABRAM

11.10-32
THE PATRIARCHS:ABRAHAM,ISAAC,JACOB

12.1-35.29
THE DESCENDANTS OF ESAU

36.1-43
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS

37.1-45.28
THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT

46.1-50.26