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Genesis tells the story of the origin of the world (chapters 1-11), the origin of God's special covenant with Abraham (chapters 11-25), how this covenant passed twice from father to favored sons Isaac and Jacob (chapters 11-35), and how Joseph's sharing of this blessing with his brothers gave rise to the ''House'' of Israel.
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Genesis tells the story of the origin of the world ([[Genesis 1-11 |chapters 1-11]]), the origin of God's special covenant with Abraham ([[Genesis 11-25 |chapters 11-25]]), how this covenant passed twice from father to favored sons Isaac and Jacob ([[Genesis 11-25 |chapters 11-25]], [[Genesis 25-35 | chapters 25-35]]), and how Joseph's sharing of this blessing with his brothers gave rise to the ''House'' of Israel ([[Genesis 36-50 |chapters 36-50]]).
  
 
== Detailed discussion ==
 
== Detailed discussion ==

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The Old Testament > Genesis

Subpages: Chapters 1-11, Chapters 11-25, Chapters 25-35, Chapter 36-50

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Historical setting

Genesis recounts the history of the world beginning with the creation through the time of the twelve sons of Jacob, or until about 1500 BC.


Brief outline and summary

The book of Genesis can be briefly outlined as follows. A complete outline appears lower on this page.

I. Adam and Noah (1-11)
A. The creation (1:1-2:3)
B. The fall (2:4-3:24)
C. Non-ancestors: Cain and Lamech (4:1-26)
D. Ancestors: genealogy from Adam to Noah's three sons (5:1-6:8)
A-B. Re-creation through the flood (6:9-9:29)
C. Non-ancestors: Tower of Babel (10:1-11:9)
D. Ancestors: genealogy from Shem to Terah's three sons (11:10-26)
II. Abraham and Isaac (11-25)
(the outline for the Abraham cycle is not yet posted)
III. Jacob (25-35)
A. Childbirth, marriageability, covenants with king and God (25:19-26:31)
B. Jacob and Esau in conflict (26:32-28:22)
C. Jacob and Laban (29:1-31:55)
B. Jacob and Esau reconciled (32:1-33:20)
A. Childbirth, marriageability, covenants with king and God (34:1-35:29)
IV. Joseph (36-50)
A. Brothers’ unworthiness, Joseph’s sale into Egypt and rise (37:2-41:45)
B. Joseph saves Israel (Jacob) with resources of Egypt (41:46-47:26)
A. Final blessings, Joseph forgives his brothers (47:27-50:26)


Genesis tells the story of the origin of the world (chapters 1-11), the origin of God's special covenant with Abraham (chapters 11-25), how this covenant passed twice from father to favored sons Isaac and Jacob (chapters 11-25, chapters 25-35), and how Joseph's sharing of this blessing with his brothers gave rise to the House of Israel (chapters 36-50).

Detailed discussion

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Relation to other scriptures

Related scriptures

Genesis is the background. It explains the creation of the world and mankind, Israel’s special relationship with God through the Abrahamic Covenant, and the establishment of the House of Israel when Israel's son Joseph forgave his brothers and, for the first time, the birthright son and his brothers remained together. The first half of Exodus recounts the ten plagues, the Passover, and Israel's escape from Egypt.

In the middle of Exodus, Moses ascends Mount Sinai and receives the Ten Commandments. But while Moses is on the mountain, the people reject God by building and worshipping a golden calf. In the middle of the fourth book, Numbers, the Israelites and ten of the twelve men sent to spy out Canaan refuse to enter the promised land. In response the Lord accuses Israel of provoking him ten times, as did Pharaoh, and decrees destruction on this First Generation that came up out of Egypt with Moses. Zion can be understood as a covenant relationship involving a king, a people, a law, and a place. In Exodus the people rejected the king as the law was being received, and in Numbers when the people also reject the place, the Lord rejects the people.

The central book of the five is Leviticus, which contains very little narrative history apart from the establishment of the Levitical Priesthood. The central chapter prescribes the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year. The central passage in that chapter recounts the placing of the congregation's sins on a single scapegoat and the sacrifice of a second goat to make reconciliation between God and the entire congregation. The central passage of the five books of Moses thus points to Christ and his atoning sacrifice.

The second half of Numbers and the book of Deuteronomy recount Moses’ efforts to prepare the 2nd Generation to enter the promised land. Most of Deuteronomy consists of three long speeches in which Moses lays out the "Deuteronomistic Covenant," or the conditions under which Israel will - as part of the Abrahamic Covenant set out at the beginning in Genesis - be blessed to conquer and occupy the promised land of Canaan.

Parallel passages

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Joseph Smith Translation

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Text transmission and canonicity

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Complete outline and page map

Items in blue or purple text indicate hyperlinked pages that address specific portions of Genesis.

Items in red indicate page groupings that are preferred but have not yet been created.

The major sections of this outline are good, but there is room to improve on many of the more minor details.

Genesis

Ia. Ten generations pre-flood: Adam (Genesis 1-6)

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ..." (1:1)
A. The creation (1:1-2:3)
"These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth ..." (2:4)
B. The fall (2:4-3:24)
a. Adam, placed in Garden, commanded not to eat tree of knowledge (2:4-17)
b. Lord says not good to be alone, Eve, unaware naked (2:18-25)
c. snake induces Eve to eat of tree to learn good from evil (3:1-5)
d. Adam & Eve eat and discover nakedness (3:6-7)
c. where art thou? Adam & Eve admit being induced to eat (3:8-13)
b. Lord pronounces curses, ground cursed for man’s sake, coats (3:14-21)
a. Adam and Eve know good from evil, driven from Garden, prevented from eating of tree of life (3:22-24)
C. Non-ancestors: Cain and Lamech (4:1-26)
• two sons Cain and Abel (1-2)
a. Lord accepts Abel’s offering of sheep, but not Cain’s of produce (3-5)
b. Lord speaks to Cain about offerings, doing well, and sin (6-7)
c. Cain kills Abel (8)
b. where is Abel? Cain denies knowledge of his brother (9-10)
a. Cain cursed as a fugitive, ground cursed against him (11-12)
d. Cain driven from God and man, mark to prevent vengeance (13-15)
e. genealogy of Lamech’s ancestors (16-18)
f. Lamech takes two wives (19)
e. genealogy of Lamech’s descendants (20-22)
d. Lamech kills and will be avenged even as Cain (23-24)
• Seth as a replacement son in place of Abel, and Abel’s son (25-26)
"This is the book of the generations of Adam ..." (5:1)
D. Ancestors: genealogy from Adam to Noah's three sons (5:1-6:8)


Ib. Ten generations post-flood: Noah (Genesis 6-11)

"These are the generations of Noah ..." (6:9)
A-B. Re-creation through the flood (6:9-9:29)
a. earth corrupt, Lord repents of creation and plans destruction (6:9-13)
b. told to build ark, covenant to be established with Noah (6:14-22)
c. enter ark, flood begins, waters rise, 7 + 40 + 150 days (7:1-24)
c. waters recede, flood ends, leave ark, 150 + 40 + 7 + 7 days (8:1-19)
b. ground no longer cursed, told to multiply and replenish earth, covenant of rainbow to not again flood (8:20-9:17)
a. Noah unaware naked, curses son Ham (and his son Canaan) (9:18-29)
"Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth ..." (10:1)
C. Non-ancestors: Tower of Babel (10:1-11:9)
"These are the generations of Shem [Noah's son] ..." (11:10)
D. Ancestors: genealogy from Shem to Terah's three sons (11:10-26)


II. Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 11-25)

"Now these are the generations of Terah [Abraham’s father] ..." (11:27)
(the outline for the Abraham cycle is not yet posted)


III. Jacob (Genesis 25-35)

"Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son ..." (25:12)
"And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son ..." (25:19)
A. Childbirth, marriageability, covenants with king and God (25:19-26:31)
a. Rebekah struggles in childbirth of Esau and Jacob (25:19-26)
c. Jacob purchases Esau’s birthright (25:27-34)
b. – d. Rebekah marriageable, pact with king, Abrahamic Covenant (26:1-31)
B. Jacob and Esau in conflict (26:32-28:22)
c. Jacob obtains Esau’s favored blessing by trick, flees (26:32-28:9)
• Esau’s non-covenant marriages (32-33)
• Isaac plans to bless Esau (26:32-27:6)
• Rebekah arranges for Isaac to bless Jacob (7-17)
• Isaac blesses Jacob (18-29)
• Isaac confirms Jacob’s blessing, then blesses Esau (30-40)
• Rebekah arranges for Isaac to send Jacob to Haran (27:41-46)
• Isaac sends Jacob to Haran for a covenant wife (28:1-8)
• Esau marries covenant daughter of uncle Ishmael (9)
d. Jacob’s ladder, Abr. Cov., pillar & oil at Bethel (28:10-22)
C. Jacob and Laban (29:1-31:55)
e. Laban tricks Jacob while serving for wife (29:1-30)
f. Jacob blessed with children (29:31-30:24)
f. Jacob blessed with flocks (30:25-43)
e. Laban tricks Jacob for flocks, flees, reconciled (31:1-55)
B. Jacob and Esau reconciled (32:1-33:20)
c. Jacob gives gifts to Esau (32:1-23)
d. Jacob wrestles, name changed to Israel at Peniel (32:24-32)
c. Jacob reconciled with Esau (33:1-20L)
A. Childbirth, marriageability, covenants with king and God (34:1-35:29)
b. Dina taken as marriageable, king tricked and city killed (34:1-31)
d. Named Israel, Abr. Covenant, pillar & oil at Bethel (35:1-15)
a. Rachel struggles in childbirth, Reuben’s adultery, Isaac dies (35:16-29)


IV. Joseph (Genesis 36-50)

"Now these are the generations of Esau ..." (36:1)
"And these are the generations of Esau ..." (36:9)
"These are the generations of Jacob ..." (37:2)
A. Brothers’ unworthiness, Joseph’s sale into Egypt and rise (37:2-41:45)
b. brothers jealous of Joseph’s favored status and his dream that they bow to him, sell into slavery (37:2-36)
c. Judah poor steward, sexual temptation with Tamar (38:1-30)
c. Joseph good steward, resists sexual temptation (39:1-23)
d. Joseph interprets two prisoner dreams (40:1-23)
d. Joseph interprets two pharoah dreams (41:1-45)
B. Joseph saves Israel (Jacob) with resources of Egypt (41:46-47:26)
e. Egyptians pay all their gold for grain in 1st year (41:46-57)
f. brothers pay for grain 1st year, Simeon unwilling hostage (42:1-38)
g. brothers return to Egypt 2nd for food with Benjamin (43:1-15)
h. brothers meet and eat with Joseph (43:16-34)
i. Joseph’s cup placed and found in Benjamin’s sack brothers agree to serve Joseph (44:1-17)
h. Judah is a willing ransom, Joseph revealed (44:18-34)
g. Joseph and Pharoah invite Jacob’s family to Egypt (45:1-28)
f. Jacob’s family given resources in Egypt in 2nd year (45:16-47:12)
e. Egyptians pay herds, lands and themselves for grain in 2nd year (47:13-26)
A. Final blessings, Joseph forgives his brothers (47:27-50:26)
a. Jacob asks to be buried in Canaan (47:27-31)
d. Jacob blesses Joseph’s two sons (48:1-22)
d. Jacob blesses his twelve sons (49:1-32)
a. Jacob dies and is buried in Canaan (50:1-14)
b. brothers fearful of Joseph’s favored status, forgiven (50:15-21)
a. Joseph asks to be buried in Canaan and dies (50:22-26)


Questions for further study and reflection

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Footnotes


Additional resources

Translations

Books and articles

  • Wayment, Thomas A., ed. The Complete Joseph Smith Translation of the Old Testament, p. ___. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 2009. (ISBN 1606411314) BX8630.A2 2009

Online materials

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