Brief Summary of The Book of Genesis

Quick Outline Chapter 1 God Created the World (1-31)

Chapter 2 Creation of Man (4-25)

Chapter 3 The Temptation of Man (1-5) The Fall of Man (6-7) The Judgment of Man (8-24)

Chapter 4 Cain Kills His Brother Abel (1-15) The Wicked Lineage of Cain (16-26)

Chapter 5 Adams Ten Descendants (1-32)

Chapter 6 Evil Multiplies on the Earth (1-4) The Wicked Sin Continually (5) The Wicked to be Destroyed (6-7) Noahs Family and the Ship (9-22)

Chapter 7 God Commands Noah to Enter the Ark (1-10)

The Earth is Flooded (11-24)

Chapter 8 God Remembers Noah (1-19) Noah Worships God (20-22)

Chapter 9 Gods Covenant with Noah (1-17) Noah Curses Canaan but Blesses Shem and Japheth (18-27) The Death of Noah (28-29)

Chapter 10 The 14 Descendants of Japheth (1-5) The 30 Descendants of Ham (6-20) The 26 Descendants of Shem (21-32)

Chapter 11 Building of the Tower of Babel (1-9) Judgment on all the Generations (5-9) The Generations of Abram (10-26) The History of Abram (27-32)

Chapter 12 The Lords First Promise to Abram (1-3) The Lords Second Promise to Abram (4-9) Abram Deceives Pharaoh (10-20)

Chapter 13 The Separation of Abram from Lot (1-13) The Lords Third Promise to Abram (14-18)

Chapter 14 Abram Rescues Lot (1-16) Abram Refuses the Reward (17-24)

Chapter 15 The Lords Fourth Promise to Abram (1-21) Chapter 16 Abram and Hagar (1-16)

Chapter 17 The Lords Fifth Promise to Abraham (1-22) Abrahams Household Circumcised (23-27)

Chapter 18 The Lords Sixth Promise to Abraham (1-15) Abrahams Faith is Tried (16-33)

Chapter 19 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1-29) Lots Guests Are Assaulted (1-11) Lot Leaves Sodom, and the Cities Are Destroyed (12-29) Lots Daughters Have Sons by Their Father (30-38)

Chapter 20 The Test of Abimelech (1-18)

Chapter 21 The Birth of Isaac (1-34) Abrahams Agreement with Abimelech (22-34)

Chapter 22

The Offering of Isaac (1-24) The Lords Seventh Promise to Abraham (15-19) Abraham Learns of Nahors Descendants (20-24)

Chapter 23 The Death of Sarah (1-20)

Chapter 24 Isaac Takes a Wife (1-67) Abraham Instructs His Servant (1-10) Abrahams Servant Finds a Wife for Isaac (11-61) Isaac and Rebekah Are Married (62-67)

Chapter 25 Abrahams Second Marriage and His Death (1-11) The 12 Tribes of Ishmael (12-18) The Generations of Isaac (19-34)

Chapter 26 The Lords First Promise to Isaac (1-6) Isaac and Rebekah at Gerar (7-22) The Lords Second Promise to Isaac (23-25) Isaacs Agreement with Abimelech (26-33) Esaus Marriages and Esau Grieves His Parents (34-35)

Chapter 27 Jacob Takes Esaus Blessing (1-46)

Chapter 28 Isaac Sends Jacob Away (1-9)

Jacobs Dream (10-22)

Chapter 29 Jacobs Labor (1-35)

Chapter 30 Jacobs Flocks Prosper (25-43)

Chapter 31 Jacobs Flight (1-55) Jacobs Second and Third Encounters With God (1-16) Laban and Jacob Make Peace (17-55)

Chapter 32 Jacob Wrestles with the Angel (1-32) Jacobs Fourth Encounter With God (22-32)

Chapter 33 Jacob Makes Peace with Esau (1-20)

Chapter 34 Dinah is Raped (1-31)

Chapter 35 Jacobs Fifth Encounter with God (1-8) Jacobs Sixth Encounter with God (9-15) The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac (16-29)

Chapter 36 The Generations of Esau (1-43)

Chapter 37 Josephs Brothers Sin Against Him (1-36)

Chapter 38 Josephs Brothers Sin with the Canaanites (1-30)

Chapter 39 Joseph is Tempted by Potiphars Wife (1-23)

Chapter 40 Joseph Interprets Dreams in Prison (1-23)

Chapter 41 Joseph Interprets Pharaohs Dreams (1-32) Joseph is Exalted over Egypt (37-57)

Chapter 42 Josephs Brothers Travel to Egypt (1-38) Joseph Sends Nine of His Brothers Back to Canaan (6-28) Jacobs Sons Report to Him (29-38)

Chapter 43 Josephs Brothers Return to Egypt (1-34) The Banquet at Josephs House (16-34)

Chapter 44 Josephs Plan to Trap His Brothers (1-17) Judah Defends Benjamin (18-34)

Chapter 45 Joseph Reveals His Identity (1-15) Pharaoh Invites Jacobs Family to Live in Egypt (16-28)

Chapter 46 Jacobs Seventh Encounter with God (1-7)

Jacobs Descendants (8-27) Joseph and Jacob Reunited (28-34)

Chapter 47 Jacob Meets Pharaoh (1-12) Joseph Acquires All the Land in Egypt for Pharaoh (13-26) Jacob Blesses His Children (27-31)

Chapter 48 Jacob Blesses Josephs Two Sons (1-22)

Chapter 49 Jacob Blesses His 12 Sons (1-33) The Death of Jacob (33)

Chapter 50 Joseph Buries His Father (1-14) Joseph Forgives His Brothers (15-25) The Death of Joseph (26)