Assembled here is a survey of each chapter in Genesis. A few sentences for each chapter to summarize the core content and meaning of the first book of the Mosaic law. All fifty chapters are put together here to assemble a coherent view of the Book of Genesis as a whole. These summaries were not written from a historical, poetic, literal, or figurative interpretative view. These summaries are merely of content produced within the valid, authoritative, sufficient, infallible, and inerrant strength of God’s word.
The Theme of Genesis:
The beginning of all things, God originates creation, humanity and the nations.
Genesis 1:
God creates the Universe, the solar system, the Earth, humanity, and all living things.
Genesis 2:
God blesses the seventh day, sanctifies it and rests from working. He plants a garden and creates male and female of humanity. God places male and female into the garden to work.
Genesis 3:
God warns about the forbidden tree. Adam (male) and Eve (female) tempted by the deceptive creature. Both succumb to temptation and sinned to thereafter receive God’s curse.
Genesis 4:
Adam and Eve produce offspring Abel and Cain. Cain killed Abel and becomes cursed by God. Cain relocates and bears children with wife. Seth is born of Adam and Eve.
Genesis 5:
Genealogy
of Adam to Noah including his offspring, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:
Humanity becomes corrupted and God instructs Noah to build an ark. God intends to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 7:
Noah gathers male and female animals to the ark he built. The Earth is flooded, and all flesh perishes.
Genesis 8:
Floodwaters subside then upon the Lord’s instructions; Noah leaves the ark with his family. All the creatures of the Ark also leave. Noah built an altar pleasing to the Lord.
Genesis 9:
The Lord blesses Noah and forms a covenant with him as indicated by the rainbow that forms in the sky.
Genesis 10:
Genealogy from Noah and his sons with their families. Settled is the table of nations.
Genesis 11:
The people of the Earth were united in language and purpose. The Lord confuses their language and disperses them to further regions separate from each other. Descendants of Shem outlined all the way to Abram.
Genesis 12:
Abram sojourns to Egypt. Abram tells his wife to lie on his behalf before Pharaoh in order that he would live. Pharaoh was cursed by God and Sarai was returned to Abram.
Genesis 13:
Abram and Lot separated with distributed land and livestock among them. The Lord promises Abram the blessings of descendants and territory.
Genesis 14:
The kings of the regions were at war. Lot captured and rescued by Abram and his forces. King Melchizedek blesses Abram and the Lord. King of Sodom offers provisions to Abram.
Genesis 15:
Abram promised a son. The Lord makes a covenant promise to Abram about the extending territory for his descendants.
Genesis 16:
Sarai has the Egyptian maid Hagar marry Abram and bear children with him. Hagar despised Sarai and a rivalry developed with Hagar’s removal from the people. The Angel of the Lord promises descendants to Hagar. Ishmael is born to Hagar and Abram.
Genesis 17:
Abram renamed to Abraham and the Lord’s covenant with him is reinforced. A sign of the covenant through circumcision is established with the newborn of the people.
Genesis 18:
The Lord promises to Abraham a son and reveals to him the forthcoming destruction of cities Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham appeals to the Lord about the righteous people among the wicked in both cities.
Genesis 19:
The Lord rescues Lot and thereafter destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot was violated by his daughters. They gave birth to the predecessors of the Moabite and Ammonite people.
Genesis 20:
Abraham again used Sarah’s status as his sister to protect himself from harm. King Abimelech warned by God to return Sarah to Abraham or he will be killed. Sarah was returned to Abraham.
Genesis 21:
Abraham’s son Isaac was born to Sarah as the Lord promised. Sarah’s displeasure with Hagar from Egypt caused Abraham to send her away. The Lord promised a great nation of Ishmael, Hagar’s son.
Genesis 22:
The Lord tested Abraham with His command to offer a sacrifice of his son Isaac. Abraham’s love and obedience for the Lord demonstrated the willing sacrifice of his son. The Angel of the Lord stops Abraham from slaying his son and He blesses him.
Genesis 23:
Sarah died and was buried in a cave at Machpelah.
Genesis 24:
A bride for Isaac was identified and chosen at a spring and well near Nahor in Mesopotamia. Isaac marries Rebekah.
Genesis 25:
Abraham died as he was buried in a cave at Machpelah. The rivalry between Jacob and Esau emerges, and Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for a meal.
Genesis 26:
Isaac takes up residence in Gerar where he has a quarrel with herdsmen over water wells. Abimelech from chapter 20 makes a covenant of peace with Isaac.
Genesis 27:
Isaac and his mother Rebekah deceived Jacob to steal his blessing from first-born Esau.
Genesis 28:
Jacob sent away to Paddan-aram to seek a wife. Jacob has a dream about a ladder reaching into heaven with angels ascending and descending upon it. God appears before Jacob with a promise of territory for his descendants.
Genesis 29:
Jacob meets Rachel and works for Laban to earn her hand in marriage. Laban tricks Jacob to cause him to marry Leah. Jacob works extra duration to finally marry Rachel.
Genesis 30:
Jacob bears children with Leah. God opens the womb of Rachel in that she is able to bear Joseph. Jacob prospers through his earnings and status with Laban.
Genesis 31:
Jacob leaves Laban and head to Canaan under the instruction of the Lord. Laban pursues but is met with a warning from God not to speak against Jacob. Laban and Jacob make a covenant of peace.
Genesis 32:
Jacob encounters news from his messengers about Esau’s forthcoming meeting with him. Jacob becomes fearful and prays to the Lord for protection. Jacob wrestled with God for a blessing.
Genesis 33:
Esau reaches Jacob and he is delighted to see his brother and family. Jacob declines to travel further with Esau. Jacob settled in Shechem.
Genesis 34:
Shechem, the son of Hamor, raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah. As a result, Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, killed the males of the city. Along with Hamor and his sons, including Shechem.
Genesis 35:
Jacob relocates to Bethel upon the Lord’s instructions. Jacob is renamed Israel and the 12-tribes of Israel are identified.
Genesis 36:
The genealogy and descendants of Esau are listed by name and location.
Genesis 37:
Jacob’s son Joseph dreams of his reign over his brothers. His brothers plot against him where he is sold into slavery.
Genesis 38:
Judah neglects Tamar and doesn’t present Shelah his son to her as a mate. Judah unknowingly mates with Tamar thinking she was a prostitute. Tamar bears Judah’s twin sons, Perez and Zerah.
Genesis 39:
Joseph escapes Potiphar’s seductive wife and gains success at the Pharaoh’s household in Egypt. Joseph is imprisoned after falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife.
Genesis 40:
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dream to the chief cupbearer about the demise of the chief baker.
Genesis 41:
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dream and he is made a ruler of Egypt. Joseph bears two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 42:
Joseph’s brothers go to Egypt to buy grain and eventually appear before him. Simeon is held bound in Egypt while Joseph’s brothers were to return to him with Benjamin the youngest.
Genesis 43:
Joseph’s brothers return to Egypt with Benjamin. Joseph is delighted by seeing them, seeing Benjamin, and hearing about Jacob’s well-being.
Genesis 44:
Joseph’s brothers are brought back to Egypt after it was previously discovered that Benjamin had falsely stolen silver/goods in his sack.
Genesis 45:
Joseph is reconciled to his brothers. He has his entire family, including Jacob, given a place to stay in Egypt due to the forthcoming famine.
Genesis 46:
The Lord appears to Jacob in a dream to give him confidence about going to Egypt. The families of Jacob who relocate to Egypt are listed by name.
Genesis 47:
Jacob and his family settle in Goshen with pledges of support from Pharaoh. Jacob gets Joseph to promise his forthcoming burial with their forefathers.
Genesis 48:
Just prior to Jacob’s death, he blesses Ephraim and Manasseh. Jacob tells Joseph that God is with him and will return him to the land of his fathers.
Genesis 49:
Jacob gathers his sons and prophesies about their forthcoming days ahead. All the heads of the tribes of Israel are separately blessed. Jacob dies.
Genesis 50:
Jacob is mourned, and Joseph buries him at Machpelah as promised. Joseph dies at 110 years old with his remains interred in Egypt.
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