Book of Genesis - Outline
Summary of Chapters
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Book of Genesis - Outline |
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I - From the Creation of the World to Abraham
Chapter 1: 1 through 11: 26
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A. The Creation of Heaven and Earth ( 1:1 to 2: 25 )
► The six Days of Creation - - l: 1 - 31
► The Institution of the Sabbath - - 2: 1 - 3
► Details of man'w creation and the Garden of Eden - - -2: 4 - 25
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B. The history of the Fall and its immediate results
1. The Temptation and Fall - - 3: 1 - 8
2. The explusion from the garden - - 3: 9 - 24
3. Cain and Abel - - 4: 1 - 15
4. The Cainites - - 4: 16 - 24
5. The Generations from Adam to Noah - - 4: 25 to 5: 32
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C. The Deluge ( great flood )
Gen. 6: 1 to 9: 17
1. The degeneracy of the antediluvians - - 6: 1 to 13
2. The building of the Ark - - 6: 14 to 22
3. The narrative of the Flood - - 7: 1 to 8: 14
4. The Covenant with Noah - - 8: 15 to 9: 17
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D. From Noah to Abraham
Gen. 9: 18 to 11: 26
1. The destinies of Noah's sons - - 9: 18 to 29
2. The table of nations - - 10: 1 to 32
3. The confusion of tongues of Babel - - 11: 1 to 9
4. The generations from Shem to Abraham - 11: 10 to 26
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I I - The Patriarchs Abraham and Isaac
Gen. 11: 27 - 26: 35
A: Abram ( 11: 27 to 16: 16 )
1. Call and Journey to Canaan - - 11: 27 to 12: 9
2. Egyptian experience - - 12: 10 to 20
3. Separation from Lot - - 13: 1 to 18
4. Rescue of Lot, meeting with Mekchizedek - - 14: 1 to 24
5. Covenant with God - - 15: 1 to 21
God's Promise to Abram Gen. 15: 13-14
6. Marriage with Hagar, birth of Ishmael - - 16: 1 to 16
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B. Abraham ( 17: 1 to 25: 18 )
1. Renewal of covenant, named Abraham, Circumcision - - 17: 1 to 27
2. Abraham and the angels, destruction of Sodom - - 18: 1 to 19: 38
3. Experience at Gerar, Isaac born, Ishmael expelled - - 20: 1 to 21: 34
4. Abrahams extreme test - - 22: 1 to 24
5. Sarah's Death and burial - - 23: 1 to 20
6. Isaac's marriage to Rebekah - - 24: 1 to 67
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C. Isaac ( 25: 19 to 26: 35 )
1. Isaac's sons - - 25: 19 to 34
2. Isaac and Abimelech at Gerar - - 26: 1 to 35
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I I I - The Patriarch Jacob
Gen. 27:1 to 36: 43
A. Jacob, the supplanter ( 27: 1 to 31:55 )
1. Jacob receives a blessing by deception - - 27: 1 to 46
2. Jacob's flight and the vision at Bethel - - 28: 1 to 22
3. Jacob works for his wives and rears a family - - 29: 1 to 30: 43
4. Jacob's flight from Laban - - 31: 1 to 55
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B. Israel, a prince with God ( 32: 1 to 36: 43 )
1. Jacob returns to Canaan, the Peniel experience - - 32: 1 to 33: 20
Jacob's Night of Anguish - - - - Gen. 32: 24 - 30
2. Disgrace at Shechem, domestic troubles - - 34: 1 to 35: 29
3. Esau's descendents - - 36: 1 to 43
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IV. Joseph, a Savior
( 37: 1 to 50: 26 )
A. Joseph and his brethren - - 37: 1 - 36
B. Judah's fall - - 38: 1 to 30
C. Joseph's stand for principle - - 39: 1 to 40: 23
D. Joseph becomes savior of Egypt - - 41: 1 to 57
E. Joseph and his brethren - - 42: 1 to 45: 28
F. Jacob goes to Egypt - - 46: 1 to 47: 31
G. Jacob's Blessings - - 48: 1 to 49: 33
H. The death of Jacob and of Joseph - - 50: 1 to 26
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Summary of EGW Comments
Chapter 47
1 - 31 PP 233-234
2 - 4 PP 233
6 PP 233, 241, SR 104; ST 180
7 PP 233
11, 12 SR 104
12, 23, 24 PP 241
28 PP 233
29, 30 PP 234
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