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Genesis: chapter summaries

Beginnings: creation, the flood, Abraham to Joseph.

50 chapters · Old Testament

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