Genesis: chapter summaries
Beginnings: creation, the flood, Abraham to Joseph.
- 1 Creation
- 2 The garden of Eden
- 3 The fall
- 4 Cain and Abel
- 5 Adam’s family line to Noah
- 6 Noah and the coming flood
- 7 The flood
- 8 The flood ends
- 9 God’s covenant with Noah
- 10 The nations descended from Noah
- 11 The tower of Babel
- 12 God calls Abram
- 13 Abram and Lot part ways
- 14 Abram rescues Lot
- 15 God’s covenant with Abram
- 16 Hagar and Ishmael
- 17 The sign of circumcision
- 18 Three visitors; Abraham pleads for Sodom
- 19 Sodom destroyed
- 20 Abraham and Abimelech
- 21 Isaac is born
- 22 Abraham offers Isaac
- 23 Sarah’s death and burial
- 24 A wife for Isaac
- 25 Abraham dies; Jacob and Esau born
- 26 Isaac and the wells
- 27 Jacob receives Isaac’s blessing
- 28 Jacob’s ladder
- 29 Jacob marries Leah and Rachel
- 30 Jacob’s family and flocks grow
- 31 Jacob leaves Laban
- 32 Jacob wrestles at Peniel
- 33 Jacob meets Esau
- 34 Dinah and Shechem
- 35 Return to Bethel; Rachel dies
- 36 Esau’s descendants
- 37 Joseph sold by his brothers
- 38 Judah and Tamar
- 39 Joseph and Potiphar’s wife
- 40 Joseph interprets two dreams in prison
- 41 Pharaoh’s dreams; Joseph rises
- 42 Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt
- 43 The brothers return with Benjamin
- 44 The silver cup
- 45 Joseph reveals himself
- 46 Jacob’s family goes to Egypt
- 47 Settling in Goshen
- 48 Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
- 49 Jacob blesses his sons
- 50 Jacob and Joseph die