[Bible Books Summary] Overview of Genesis

[Bible Books Summary] Overview of Genesis

 

  The Bible is a Christian scripture that is believed by about 2.4 billion people (33%) out of 7.3 billion people, and has been distributed to about 6 billion people, 80 percent of humanity. It is best-selling book but is considered one of the least readable. So I post to answer questions about the Bible as a whole. I’m going to run a series of 66 books of the Bible.

 

Who wrote Genesis?
 

 

  Genesis is a record of the first generation in the Bible, as God showed and told the prophet Moses the events that had occurred before the birth of him(Gn 2:4).

 

Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-

 

Main Figures and Events of the Genesis
 

 

  The main figures of Genesis are Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Adam had a sin and got dead by eating the fruit from the tree of evil and violating God’s word. Noah believed in God’s warning of flood judgement and made an ark to save his house. Abraham obeyed God’s order to offer his son, Isaac, as a brunt offering. Isaac was deceived by Jacob and blessed him, not his eldest son, Esau. Jacob was given the name of Israel and had 12 sons, because he wrestled with an angel and won. In Joseph’s time, Israel(’s people) went into the land of Egypt from Canaan through Joseph.

 

  Genesis, the beginning of the Old Testament, is a story centering people who promised with God, from Adam to Joseph. Knowing who had God’s covenant, what the covenants were, and what the consequences were is the first step toward the 39 books of the Old Testament.

 

Reference phrases

Genesis 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground-trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:19 Then God said, 'Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 25:26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, 'Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.‘

Genesis 35:23~26 The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Rachel's maidservant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali. The sons of Leah's maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-

Hebrew 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

 

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