Genesis-Outline

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Genesis 1: God creates heaven, earth, plants, animals and man

  1. God creates heaven and earth;
  2. the light;
  3. the firmament;
  4. separates the dry land;
  5. forms the sun, moon, and stars;
  6. fishes and fowls;
  7. cattle, wild beasts, and creeping things;
  8. creates man in his own image, blesses him;
  9. grants the fruits of the earth for food.

Genesis 2: Adam and Eve’s Beginning in the garden of Eden

  1. The first Sabbath.
  2. Further details concerning the manner of creation.
  3. The planting of the garden of Eden, and its situation;
  4. man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge forbidden.
  5. The animals are named by Adam.
  6. The making of woman, and the institution of marriage.

Genesis 3: Adam and Eve’s sin and expulsion from the Garden

  1. The serpent deceives Eve.
  2. Both she and Adam transgress the divine command, and fall into sin.
  3. God arraigns them.
  4. The serpent is cursed.
  5. The promised seed.
  6. The punishment of mankind.
  7. Their first clothing.
  8. Their expulsion from paradise.

Genesis 4: Cain kills Abel; his curse and descendants

  1. The birth, occupation, and offerings of Cain and Abel.
  2. Cain murders his brother Abel.
  3. The curse of Cain.
  4. Has a son called Enoch, and builds a city, which he calls after his name.
  5. His descendants, with Lamech and his two wives.
  6. The birth of Seth,
  7. and Enos.

Genesis 5: Descendants from Adam to Noah

  1. Recapitulation of the creation of man.
  2. The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.
  3. Enoch’s godliness and translation into Heaven.
  4. The family line of Methuselah to Noah and his sons

Genesis 6: God’s Mercy on Noah in the midst of Man’s Wickedness

  1. Incursion of the Sons of God into humanity.

2, The wickedness of “man”, which provoked God’s wrath.

  1. Beginning of the existence of giants on Earth.
  2. Noah finds grace.
  3. His family line
  4. The order, form, dimensions, and building of the ark.

Genesis 7: The Great Flood

  1. Noah, his family and the living creatures enter the ark.
  2. The flood begins.
  3. The increase of the flood for forty days.
  4. All flesh is destroyed by it.
  5. Its duration of 150 days.

Genesis 8: The Flood Subsides and the Ark Rests on Mount Ararat

  1. God remembers Noah and calms the waters.
  2. The ark rests on Ararat.
  3. Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove.
  4. Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark.
  5. He builds an altar, and offers sacrifices,
  6. which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more.

Genesis 9: The Covenant of the Rainbow

  1. God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.
  2. Blood and murder are forbidden.
  3. God’s covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge.
  4. Noah’s family replenishes the world.
  5. Noah plants a vineyard,
  6. Is drunken, and mocked by his son;
  7. Curses Canaan;
  8. Blesses Shem;
  9. Prays for Japheth, and dies.

Genesis 10: Descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth

  1. The generations of Noah.
  2. Japheth.
  3. Ham.
  4. Nimrod becomes the first monarch; the descendants of Canaan.
  5. The sons of Shem.

Genesis 11: Tower of Babel; Shem’s Descendants to Abraham

  1. One language in the world.
  2. The building of Babel.
  3. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
  4. The generations of Shem.
  5. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
  6. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran.

Genesis 12: God Sends Abram to Egypt

  1. God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ.
  2. He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan.
  3. He journeys through Canaan,
  4. which is promised to him in a vision.
  5. He is driven by famine into Egypt.
  6. Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister.
  7. Pharaoh, having taken her from him, is compelled to restore her.
  8. Pharaoh reproves Abram, whom he dismisses.

Genesis 13: Abram and Lot Part Ways; Abram Promised Many Descendants

  1. Abram and Lot return with great riches out of Egypt.
  2. Strife arises between Abram’s herdsmen and those of Lot.
  3. Abram allows Lot to choose his part of the country,
  4. and Lot goes toward Sodom.
  5. God renews his promise to Abram.
  6. He moves to Hebron, and there builds an altar.

Genesis 14: Abram Rescues Lot and Receives a Blessing from Melchizedek

  1. The battle of four kings against the king of Sodom and his allies.
  2. Lot is taken prisoner.
  3. Abram rescues him.
  4. Melchizedek blesses Abram, who gives him tithes.
  5. Abram restores the rest of the spoil to the king of Sodom.

Genesis 15: God’s Covenant with Abram

  1. God encourages Abram, who asks for an heir.
  2. God promises him a son, and a multiplying of his seed.
  3. Abram is justified by faith.
  4. Canaan is promised again,
  5. and confirmed by a sign, and a vision,
  6. prophetic of the condition of his posterity till brought out of Egypt.

Genesis 16: Sarai, Hagar, and Ishmael

  1. Sarai, being barren, gives Hagar to Abram.
  2. Hagar, being afflicted for despising her mistress, runs away.
  3. An angel commands her to return and submit herself,
  4. promises her a numerous posterity,
  5. and shows their character and condition.
  6. Hagar names the place, and returns to Sarai.
  7. Ishmael is born.
  8. The age of Abram.

Genesis 17: The Covenant of Circumcision

  1. God renews the covenant with Abram,
  2. and changes his name to Abraham, in token of a greater blessing.
  3. Circumcision is instituted.
  4. Sarai’s name is changed to Sarah, and she is blessed.
  5. Isaac is promised, and the time of his birth fixed.
  6. Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised.

Genesis 18: God Promises the birth of Isaac; Abram Pleads for Sodom

  1. The Lord appears to Abraham, who entertains angels.
  2. Sarah is reproved for laughing at the promise of a son.
  3. The destruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham.
  4. Abraham makes intercession for its inhabitants.

Genesis 19: The Destruction of Sodom; Lot’s daughters give birth

  1. Lot entertains two angels.
  2. The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
  3. Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
  4. He is directed to flee to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
  5. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
  6. Lot’s wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt.
  7. Lot dwells in a cave.
  8. The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.

Genesis 20: Abraham, Sarah and Abimelech

  1. Abraham sojourns at Gerar.
  2. Denies his wife, who is taken by Abimelech.
  3. Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream.
  4. He rebukes Abraham.
  5. Restores Sarah;
  6. and reproves her.
  7. Abimelech and his family are healed at Abraham’s prayer.

Genesis 21: Isaac Born; Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away; Treaty at Beersheba

  1. Isaac is born, and circumcised.
  2. Sarah’s joy.
  3. Isaac is weaned.
  4. Hagar and Ishmael sent away.
  5. Hagar in distress.
  6. The angel relieves and comforts her.
  7. Abimelech’s covenant with Abraham at Beersheba.

Genesis 22: The Offering of Isaac; Nahor’s sons

  1. Abraham is tested with the command to offer Isaac.
  2. He gives proof of his faith and obedience.
  3. The angel prevents him.
  4. Isaac is exchanged for a ram.
  5. The place is called Jehovah-jireh.
  6. Abraham is again blessed.
  7. The generations of Nahor unto Rebekah.

Genesis 23: Death and Burial of Sarah

  1. The age and death of Sarah.
  2. The purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah;
  3. where Sarah is buried.

Genesis 24: Isaac and Rebekah

  1. Abraham swears his servant.
  2. The servant’s journey.
  3. His prayer.
  4. His sign.
  5. Rebekah meets him;
  6. fulfils his sign;
  7. receives jewels;
  8. shows her kindred;
  9. and invites him home.
  10. The servant blesses God.
  11. Laban entertains him.
  12. The servant shows his message.
  13. Laban and Bethuel approve it.
  14. Rebekah consents to go, and departs.
  15. Isaac meets and marries her.

Genesis 25: Abraham’s Death; Ishmael, Jacob and Esau

  1. The sons of Abraham by Keturah.
  2. The division of his goods.
  3. His age, death, and burial.
  4. God blesses Isaac.
  5. The generations of Ishmael.
  6. His age and death.
  7. Isaac prays for Rebekah, being barren.
  8. The children strive in her womb.
  9. The birth of Esau and Jacob.
  10. Their different characters and pursuits.
  11. Esau sells his birthright.

Genesis 26: Isaac and Abimelech

  1. Isaac, because of famine, sojourns in Gerar, and the Lord blesses him.
  2. He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife.
  3. He grows rich, and the Philistines envy his prosperity.
  4. He digs wells.
  5. God appears to him at Beersheba, and blesses him;
  6. and Abimelech makes a covenant with him.
  7. Esau’s wives.

Genesis 27: Jacob Gets Isaac’s Blessing

  1. Isaac sends Esau for venison.
  2. Rebekah instructs Jacob to obtain the blessing.
  3. Jacob, feigning to be Esau, obtains it.
  4. Esau brings venison.
  5. Isaac trembles.
  6. Esau complains, and by importunity obtains a blessing.
  7. He threatens Jacob’s life.
  8. Rebekah disappoints him, by sending Jacob away.

Genesis 28: Jacob’s Flight to Laban and Vision of a ladder

  1. Isaac blesses Jacob, and sends him to Padan-aram.
  2. Esau marries Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael.
  3. Jacob journeys, and has a vision of a ladder.
  4. The stone of Bethel.
  5. Jacob’s vow.

Genesis 29: Jacob Meets Rachel, Serves Laban, Marries Rachel and Leah

  1. Jacob comes to the well of Haran.
  2. He becomes acquainted with Rachel.
  3. Laban entertains him.
  4. Jacob covenants for Rachel.
  5. He is deceived by Laban with Leah.
  6. He marries also Rachel, and serves for her seven years more.
  7. Leah bears Reuben;
  8. Simeon;
  9. Levi;
  10. and Judah.

Genesis 30: Jacob and His Sons Prosper

  1. Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob.
  2. Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali.
  3. Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher.
  4. Reuben finds mandrakes,
  5. with which Leah buys her husband’s company of Rachel.
  6. Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah.
  7. Rachel bears Joseph.
  8. Jacob desires to depart.
  9. Laban detains him on a new agreement.
  10. Jacob’s policy, whereby he becomes rich.

Genesis 31: Jacob Leaves for Canaan; Laban Pursues

  1. Jacob, displeased with the envy of Laban and his sons, departs secretly.
  2. Rachel steals her father’s household gods.
  3. Laban pursues after him, and complains of the wrong.
  4. Rachel’s plan to hide the images.
  5. Jacob’s complaint of Laban.
  6. The covenant of Laban and Jacob at Galeed.

Genesis 32: Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau, Wrestles with God

  1. Jacob’s vision at Mahanaim.
  2. His message to Esau.
  3. He is afraid of Esau’s coming.
  4. He prays for deliverance.
  5. He sends a present to Esau, and passes the brook Jabbok.
  6. He wrestles with an angel at Peniel, where he is called Israel.
  7. He halts.

Genesis 33: Jacob Meets Esau, Settles in Shechem

  1. Jacob and Esau’s meeting; and Esau’s departure.
  2. Jacob comes to Succoth.
  3. At Shechem he buys a field, and builds an altar, called El Elohe Israel.

 

Genesis 34: Shechem Defiles Dinah and is Avenged by Jacob

  1. Dinah is ravished by Shechem.
  2. He requests to marry her.
  3. The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites.
  4. Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it.
  5. The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, and spoil their city.
  6. Jacob reproves Simeon and Levi.

Genesis 35: Jacob Returns to Bethel; Jacob Named Israel; Deaths of Rachel and Isaac

  1. God commands Jacob to go to Bethel.
  2. He purges his house of idols.
  3. He builds an altar at Bethel.
  4. Deborah dies at Allon Bacuth.
  5. God blesses Jacob at Bethel.
  6. Jacob Named Israel.
  7. Rachel travails of Benjamin, and dies in the way to Edar.
  8. Reuben lies with Bilhah.
  9. The sons of Jacob.
  10. Jacob comes to Isaac at Hebron.
  11. The age, death, and burial of Isaac.

Genesis 36: Descendants of Esau; Kings of Edom

  1. Esau’s three wives.
  2. His removal to mount Seir.
  3. His sons.
  4. The dukes which descended of his sons.
  5. The sons and dukes of Seir the Horite.
  6. Anah finds mules.
  7. The kings of Edom.
  8. The dukes that descended of Esau.

Genesis 37: Joseph’s Dreams and Betrayal by His Brothers

  1. Joseph is loved by Jacob, but hated by his brothers.
  2. His dreams and the interpretation.
  3. Jacob sends him to his brothers, who counsel to slay him.
  4. At Reuben’s desire they cast him into a pit;
  5. and afterwards sell him to the Ishmaelites;
  6. while Ruben grieves at not finding him.
  7. His coat, covered with blood, is sent to Jacob, who mourns him inordinately.
  8. Joseph is brought to Egypt and sold to Potiphar.

Genesis 38: Judah and Tamar

  1. Judah begets Er, Onan, and Shelah.
  2. Er’s marriage with Tamar, and death.
  3. The trespass of Onan.
  4. Tamar is reserved for Shelah.
  5. Judah’s wife dies.
  6. Tamar deceives Judah.
  7. She bears twins, Pharez and Zarah.

Genesis 39: Joseph’s Success; Potiphar’s Wife; Joseph Imprisoned

  1. Joseph is bought by Potiphar, and preferred in the family.
  2. He resists temptation by Potiphar’s Wife.
  3. He is falsely accused by her.
  4. He is cast into prison.
  5. God is with him there, and he is advanced by the keeper of prison.

Genesis 40: Joseph Interprets the Cupbearer and the Baker’s Dreams

  1. The chief butler and baker of Pharaoh are also imprisoned.
  2. Joseph interprets their dreams.
  3. They are accomplished according to his interpretation.
  4. The ingratitude of the butler, in forgetting Joseph.

Genesis 41: Pharaoh’s Dream; Joseph’s Interpretation and Reward

  1. Pharaoh has two dreams.
  2. Joseph interprets them.
  3. He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married.
  4. The seven years of plenty.
  5. He begets children.
  6. The famine begins.

Genesis 42: Joseph’s Brothers Sent to Egypt, Simeon Detained

  1. Jacob sends his ten sons to buy grain in Egypt.
  2. They are imprisoned by Joseph as spies.
  3. They are set at liberty, on condition to bring Benjamin.
  4. They have remorse for Joseph.
  5. Simeon is kept for a pledge.
  6. They return with grain, and their money.
  7. Their relation to Jacob.
  8. Jacob refuses to send Benjamin.

Genesis 43: The Return to Egypt with Benjamin

  1. Jacob is persuaded to send Benjamin.
  2. Joseph entertains his brothers.
  3. They discover their fears to the steward.
  4. Joseph makes them a feast.

Genesis 44: Benjamin and the Silver Cup

  1. ⁠ ⁠Joseph’s tests his brothers and try their affection for Benjamin.
  2. The silver cup is found in Benjamin’s sack.
  3. They are brought before Joseph.
  4. Judah’s humble supplication to Joseph.

Genesis 45: Joseph Makes Himself Known and Forgives His Brothers

  1. Joseph makes himself known to his brothers.
  2. He comforts them in God’s providence.
  3. He sends for his father.
  4. Pharaoh confirms it.
  5. Joseph furnishes then for their journey.
  6. Jacob is revived with the news.

Genesis 46: Jacob and His Family Move to Egypt

  1. Jacob is comforted by God at Beersheba.
  2. Thence he with his company goes into Egypt.
  3. The number of his family that went into Egypt.
  4. Joseph meets Jacob.
  5. He instructs his brothers how to answer Pharaoh.

Genesis 47: Jacob to Goshen; Israelites Multiply; Joseph and the Famine

  1. Joseph presents his father, and five of his brothers before Pharaoh.
  2. He gives them habitation and maintenance.
  3. He gets the Egyptian’s money;
  4. their livestock when their money ran out;
  5. and their lands, except the priests, to Pharaoh.
  6. He restores the land I return for one-fifth.
  7. Jacob’s age.
  8. He charges Joseph to bury him with his fathers.

Genesis 48: Jacob’s Illness; Manasseh and Ephraim

  1. Joseph with his sons visits his sick father.
  2. Jacob strengthens himself to bless them.
  3. He repeats God’s promise.
  4. He takes Ephraim and Manasseh as his own sons.
  5. He tells Joseph of his mother’s grave.
  6. He blesses Ephraim and Manasseh.
  7. He prefers the younger before the elder.
  8. He prophesies their return to Canaan.

Genesis 49: Jacob’s Blessing to His Sons; Jacob’s Death

  1. Jacob calls his sons to bless them.
  2. Their blessing in particular.
  3. He charges them about his burial.
  4. He dies.

Genesis 50: Burial of Jacob; Death of Joseph

  1. The mourning for Jacob.
  2. Joseph gets leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him.
  3. The funeral.
  4. Joseph comforts his brothers, who crave his pardon.
  5. His age.
  6. He sees the third generation of his sons.
  7. He prophesies unto his brothers of their return.
  8. He takes an oath of them concerning his bones.
  9. He dies, and is put into a coffin.
But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Hebrews 13:16)

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