Survey of the Old Testament

Genesis

Genesis

Primeval History (1-11)

Patriarchal History (12-50)

Genesis -- The Beginning Of:

• The world

• Plant and animal life

• Human life

• Marriage and the home

• Sin

• Messianic prophecy

• Childbirth and families

• Nations

• Languages

• The nation of Israel

Genesis 1-11

• Creation of the world (1:1-2:3)

• Adam and Eve (2:4-25)

• The Fall (3:1-24)

• Cain, Abel, and Seth (4:1-26)

• Genealogy to Noah (5:1-32)

• The Flood (6:1-8:22)

• Noah after the flood (9:1-29)

• The table of nations (10:1-32)

• The tower of Babel (11:1-9)

• Genealogy to Abraham (11:10-32)

Genesis 12-50

• Abraham and Isaac (12-25)

• Jacob (25-35)

• Esau (36)

• Joseph (37-50)

Abraham

The Three-Fold Promise:

1. He would have many descendants/great

nation (12:2)

2. They would be given a land (12:7)

3. Through his seed all nations would be

blessed (12:3)

Acts 3:24-25; Gal. 3:8, 16

Abraham

Abraham believed God (15:6)

Romans 4:3

Galatians 3:6

James 2:23

Jacob

Four wives

Leah

Rachel – his favorite!

Zilpah

Bilhah

Jacob

Twelve sons

GIRLS JJZ BAND

Gad

Issachar

Reuben

Levi

Simeon

Joseph

Judah

Zebulon

Benjamin

Asher

Naphtali

Dan

Joseph

Slave (37, 39)

Prisoner (39)

Grand Vizier (41)

Moved family to Egypt (46)

God’s providence (45:7-8; 50:20)