Outline of the Book of Genesis

Genesis
  1. Creation  (1:1-2:25)
    1. The original creation  (1:1)
    2. Earth made waste and empty by judgment  (1:2)
    3. The new beginning  (1:3-27)
      1. The first day: light diffused  (1:3-5)
      2. The second day: vapor above, water below  (1:6-8)
      3. The third day: land and sea; plant life appears  (1:9-13)
      4. The fourth day: the sun, moon, and stars become visible  (1:14-19)
      5. The fifth day: the second creative act--animal life  (1:20-23)
      6. The sixth day  (1:24-27)
        1. The fecundity of the earth after the creative work of the fifth day  (1:24-25)
        2. The creation of man  (1:26-27)
    4. The First Dispensation: Innocency  (1:28-2:25)
      1. The first, or Edenic Covenant: conditioned the life of unfallen man  (1:28-31)
      2. The Sabbath rest of God: type of the believer's rest in the finished work of redemption  (2:1-3)
      3. Summary of the creation work of Chapter 1  (2:4-6)
      4. The creative act of Gen. 1:27 described  (2:7)
      5. The habitation of unfallen man, and the Edenic Covenant  (2:8-20)
      6. The method of the creation of woman  (2:21-22)
      7. Eve, type of the church as bride of Christ  (2:23-25)
  2. The Fall and Redemption  (3:1-4:7)
    1. The temptation of Eve  (3:1-7)
      1. The implied doubt of the benevolence of God  (3:1)
      2. Adding to the Word of God  (3:2-3)
      3. The first lie  (3:4)
      4. The appeal to pride  (3:5)
      5. The fall  (3:6-7)
    2. The seeking God. His Sabbath rest broken; His new work begun  (3:8-22)
      1. The Second, or Adamic Covenant  (3:14-19)
      2. The faith of Adam  (3:20)
      3. The response of Jehovah Elohim to the faith of Adam  (3:21)
      4. The judgment of the Expulsion ends the First Dispensation  (3:22)
    3. The Second Dispensation: Conscience  (3:23-24)
    4. The first sons of Adam and Eve  (4:1-5)
    5. Cain exhorted even yet to bring a sin-offering  (4:6-7)
  3. The Diverse Seeds, Cain and Seth, to the Flood  (4:8-7:24)
    1. The first murder: history of Cain  (4:8-15)
    2. The first civilization  (4:16-24)
    3. The birth of Seth: the spiritual seed renewed  (4:25-5:5)
    4. The family of Seth  (5:6-32)
    5. The Flood  (6:1-7:24)
      1. The marriage of Cainites with Sethites  (6:1-2)
      2. The warning of Jehovah  (6:3)
      3. The antediluvian civilization  (6:4)
      4. The purpose of Jehovah in judgment  (6:5-7)
      5. The purpose of Jehovah in grace  (6:8-22)
      6. The judgment of the Flood: end of testing under the Second Dispensation  (7:1-24)
  4. The Flood to Babel  (8:1-11:9)
    1. The Flood recedes  (8:1-19)
    2. The Third Dispensation: Human Government  (8:20-11:9)
      1. The Third, or Noahic Covenant  (8:20-11:9)
        1. Parenthetical: the shame of Noah and the sin of Ham  (9:20-23)
        2. Conclusion of Noahic Covenant: the prophetic declaration  (9:24-27)
        3. The family of Noah  (9:28-10:32)
        4. The failure of man under the Noahic Covenant  (11:1-4)
        5. The judgment of the confusion of tongues. Life continues under the Adamic and Noahic Covenants  (11:5-9)
  5. From the call of Abram to the death of Joseph  (11:10-50:26)
    1. The ancestry of Abram  (11:10-30)
    2. Incomplete obedience: the wasted years at Haran  (11:31-32)
    3. The Fourth Dispensation: Promise: from the call of Abram to the giving of the law  (12:1-50:26)
      1. Abraham  (12:1-20:18)
        1. The Fourth, or Abrahamic Covenant  (12:1-13:4)
          1. Abram in the land: worship, communion, and promise  (12:4-9)
          2. Under trial Abram forsakes the place of blessing  (12:10-20)
          3. Abram returns to the land and the altar  (13:1-4)
        2. Lot  (13:5-14:16)
          1. Abram's separation from Lot  (13:5-9)
          2. Lot's first step in backsliding  (13:10-11)
          3. Lot's second step in backsliding  (13:12-13)
          4. The Abrahamic Covenant: the land given; natural posterity promised  (13:14-18)
          5. Abram delivers Lot  (14:1-16)
        3. The revelation of God as El Elyon, "the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth"  (14:17-16:16)
          1. The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed: a spiritual seed promised  (15:1-21)
          2. The birth of Ishmael  (16:1-16)
        4. The revelation of God as El Shaddai, Almighty God  (17:1-27)
          1. Abram becomes Abraham  (17:4-5)
          2. The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed and made everlasting  (17:6-8)
          3. Circumcision established as the sign of the Abrahamic Covenant  (17:9-14)
          4. The promise of Isaac, in whom the line of Christ runs  (17:15-19)
          5. Ishmael to be a nation  (17:20-27)
        5. Abraham, "the friend of God"  (18:1-19:38)
          1. Abraham the intercessor  (18:23-33)
          2. The destruction of Sodom. The third step in Lot's backsliding: a great man in Sodom  (19:1-32)
          3. The last step in Lot's backsliding  (19:33-38)
        6. Abraham's lapse at Gerar  (20:1-18)
      2. Abraham and Isaac  (21:1-25:23)
        1. The birth of Isaac  (21:1-8)
        2. The bondwoman and her son cast out  (21:9-21)
        3. Abraham at Beer-sheba  (21:22-22:24)
          1. The offering of Isaac  (22:1-14)
          2. The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed  (22:15-24)
        4. The death and burial of Sarah  (23:1-20)
        5. A bride for Isaac  (24:1-67)
        6. Abraham weds Keturah  (25:1-4)
        7. Isaac heir of all things  (25:5-6)
        8. The death of Abraham  (25:7-11)
        9. The generations of Ishmael  (25:12-18)
        10. The generations of Isaac  (25:19-23)
      3. Jacob and Esau  (25:24-27:46)
        1. The birth of Esau and Jacob  (25:24-26)
        2. The sale of the birthright  (25:27-34)
        3. The Abrahamic Covenant confirmed to Isaac  (26:1-5)
        4. The lapse of Isaac  (26:6-16)
        5. Isaac the well-digger  (26:17-35)
        6. The stolen blessing  (27:1-46)
          1. The blessing of Jacob  (27:26-33)
          2. Esau's unavailing remorse  (27:34-46)
      4. Jacob  (28:1-37:1)
        1. Jacob at Bethel: the Abrahamic Covenant confirmed to him  (28:1-22)
        2. Jacob's years at Haran  (29:1-31:10)
        3. Parenthesis  (31:11-55)
          1. The call back to Bethel  (31:11-13)
          2. The flight of Jacob  (31:14-55)
        4. Jacob ("supplanter") becomes Israel ("a prince with God")  (32:1-32)
        5. Jacob meets Esau  (33:1-17)
        6. Jacob's worship in self-will  (33:18-20)
        7. Jacob reaps the harvest of his evil years  (34:1-31)
        8. Jacob's return to Bethel: communion and promise restored  (35:1-15)
        9. Death of Rachel and birth of Benjamin  (35:16-26)
        10. Death of Isaac  (35:27-29)
        11. The generations of Esau (Edom)  (36:1-43)
        12. The history of Jacob resumed  (37:1)
      5. Joseph  (37:2-50:26)
        1. Joseph, the beloved of his father  (37:2-7)
        2. Joseph hated and rejected by his brethren  (37:8-19)
        3. Joseph cast into the place of death  (37:20-27)
        4. Joseph, drawn up from the pit, goes to the Gentiles  (37:28-36)
        5. Parenthesis: the shame of Judah  (38:1-30)
        6. Joseph tested by adversity  (39:1-40:23)
        7. The dream of Pharaoh  (41:1-13)
        8. Joseph's exaltation in Egypt  (41:14-44)
        9. Joseph, rejected by his brethren, receives a Gentile bride  (41:45-57)
        10. Joseph, rejected by his brethren, preserves them  (42:1-44:34)
        11. Joseph reveals himself to his brethren  (45:1-15)
        12. Joseph's brethren blessed and sent to Jacob  (45:16-28)
        13. Jacob journeys to Egypt  (46:1-34)
        14. Jacob and his descendants exalted  (47:1-26)
        15. The last days of Jacob  (47:27-48:22)
        16. Jacob's dying blessing: prophetic of the tribes of Israel  (49:1-33)
        17. The burial of Jacob  (50:1-14)
        18. The fear of Joseph's brethren  (50:15-21)
        19. The last days and death of Joseph  (50:22-26)
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