Genesis: Table of Contents

1. hymn of creation
2. second creation of man
3. temptation and fall
4. Abel and Cain; Cain's descendents
5. descendents of Adam to Noah
6. giants and Noah: construction of ark
7. flood
8. flood subsides; "never do it again"
9. convenant; nakedness of Noah (Ham sees; Shem and Japheth cover him)
10. descendents of Noah
11. Babel and descendents of Shem to Abram
12. Abram Lot and Sarai go to Canaan, to Shechem (altar), then Bethel (altar), then to Egypt; Sarai as sister
13. to Negev, Bethel; Lot and Abram part; God blesses Abram
14. History of battle around Sodom and Gemorrah; rescue of Lot
15. Abram complains of hierlessness to God; cuts a covenant for possession of Canaan
16.Sarai gives Abram Hagar, who runs off, is reassured by God, returns and who bears Ishmael
17. Covenant of circumcision; change of names; reassurance of having a son
18. God appears at Mamre; angels on their way to Sodom; Abraham haggles with God.
19. Angels go to Sodom, and destroy it; Lot to hill country around Zoar; daughter conceive by him
20. Abraham to Negev; wife as sister to Abimelech
21. birth of Isaac; sending off Hagar, goes to Egypt; treaty with Abimelech at Beersheba
22. Sacrifice of Isaac
23. Death of Sarah; purchase of land from Ephron
24. Dispatch of servant to Bethuel; betrothal of Rebecca; marriage with Isaac
25. Abraham marries Katurah; death of Abraham; descendents of Ismael; Jacob, Esau and the birth right
26. famine, but Isaac is commanded to stay; Rebecca as sister in Gerar (Abimelech again); Isaac prospers, treaties with Abimelech
27. blessing from Isaac on Jacob
28. Jacob send to Paddan-aram to find wife; Jacob's ladder dream and blessing
29. Rachel at the well; Jacob works; bait and switch; births to Leah
30 more births and the mandrake; fixing of wages
31. escape of Jacob and Rachel; treaty between Jacob and Laban
32. Jacob's impending meeting with Esau; wrestles with God
33 Jacob meets Esau
34. Rape of Dinah
35. Pilgrimage to Bethel; birth of Benjamin; death of Rachel
36. descendents of Esau (Edom)
37. Joseph sold into slavery
38. Judah and Tamar
39.  Joseph and Potiphar's wife
40. dreams of the butler and the baker
41. Pharaoh's dream; Joseph made viceroy and married
42. Joseph's brothers come to Egypt
43. Second trip to Egypt
44. The trick of the cup; Judah pleads
45. Joseph reveals himself
46. Jacob comes to Egypt with the whole clan; names of the clan
47. Jacob blesses Pharaoh; enslavement of Egypt by Pharaoh
48. Blessing of Manesseh and Ephraim
49. Blessing of Jacob's sons, and death
50. burial of Jacob