GENESIS OUTLINE

-A. Ralph Johnson

 

Theme:  The book of beginnings

Written by Moses about 1400 BC

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KEY WORDS

OUTLINE

 

1:

Creation

INTRODUCTION:                Heavens, Earth, Man. (1:1--2:3)

 

 

 

I.  GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS & EARTH (2:4--4:26)

2:

Eden

Garden prepared.  Adam created.  Eve formed.

3:

Fall

Serpent.  Fruit.  Ate.  Consequences.

4:

Cain

Jealousy.  Murder.  Cain's descendants.

 

 

 

II.  GENERATIONS OF ADAM, (5:1--6:8)

5:

Seth

Genealogy to the flood.

 

 

       

 

 

III.   GENERATIONS OF NOAH (6:9--9:29)

6:

Ark

Wickedness.  Intermarriage.  Nephilim.

7:

Flood

Saved by water” – (cf, I Pet. 3:21)

8:

Land

In the mountains of Ararat.  Altar.  Assurance.

9:

Rainbow

Foods.  Covenant.  Curse on Canaan.

 

 

 

IV.   GENERATIONS OF SONS OF NOAH

10:

Nations

Noah (10:1-11:9)

 

 

Origins of the nations.

11:

Babel

Tower of Babel.  Languages changed (11:1-9)

 

 

 

V.    GENERATIONS OF SHEM.  (11:10-26)

 

 

 

VI.   GENERATIONS OF TERAH (11:27-25:11)

 

 

Ur of Chaldeas to Haran.   (11:27-32)

12.

Abraham

Abraham’s call.  (12:1-9) 

 

 

To be great nation.

 

 

Canaan.

 

 

Egypt.  (12:10-20)  Calls Sarah his "Sister".

13:

Lot

In Canaan, Lot chooses Sodom. 

Promises to Abraham.

14:

Rescue

Lot taken hostage by Chedorlaomer of Elam.  (14:1-12)

 

 

Lot rescued by Abraham.  (14:13-16)

 

 

Melchizedek, Tithe.  Blesses Abraham.  (14:17-24)

15:

Covenant

Covenant made by God with Abraham.

16:

Ishmael

Sarah & Hagar conflict.  Flight.  Promises to Ishmael.

17:

Circumcision

Names changed.  Covenant.  Ishmael at age 13.

18:

Angels

Entertained.  Sarah promised.  Abraham's intercession.

19:

Sodom

Lot delivered.  Wife looks back.  Lot seduced by daughters.

20:

Gerar

Abimelech (king) and Abraham's "sister".

21:

Isaac.

Ishmael and Hagar cast out.  (21:8-21)

 

 

Abimelech & Abraham covenant at Beer-Sheba.  (21:22-34)

22:

Test

Abraham sacrificing Isaac.  Covenant.  Brother Nahor.

23:

Sarah

Sarah's death.  Field & cave of Machpelah purchased by Abraham

24:

Rebekah

Rebekah brought from Haran to be Isaac's wife.

25:

 

Last days of Abraham.  Remarriage.  More children. Death.  (25:1-11)

 

 

Ishmael

VII.   GENERATIONS OF ISHMAEL. (25:12-18)

 

 

Isaac

VIII. GENERATIONS OF ISAAC (25:19-35:29)

 

 

Esau and Jacob.  (25:19-26)

 

 

Birthright sold.  (25:27-34)

26:

Gerar

Isaac goes to Philistine Gerar where God reaffirms his covenant. (1-5)

 

 

He calls Rebekah his "sister." Abimilech wants to marry her  (26:6-11)

 

 

Prosperity (26:12-19)

 

 

Strife with herdsmen of Gerar (20-22)

 

 

Beersheba the LORD appears to Jacob. He builds an altar (23-25)

 

 

Abimelech makes covenant with Isaac (26-31)

 

 

Beersheba established (32-35)

27:

Blessing

Blessing stolen by Jacob. (Isaac deceived by skins.)

28:

Flight

Flight to Haran.  Ladder dream.  Promises.  Sacrifice and Pillar.

29:

Marriage

Jacob meets Rachael.  Works 7 years.  for Laban.

 

 

Laban deceives him and gives Leah instead.

 

 

Jacob agrees to seven more years for Rachael.

 

 

Leah’s children (Reuben, Sineon, Levi and Judah).

30:

Family

Bilhah’s children (Dan, Naphtali) 

 

 

Zilpah’s children (Gad, Asher)

 

 

Leah’s children (Issachar, Zebulun, Dianh)

 

 

Rachael’s child (Joseph)

 

 

Possessions (Stronger animals born marked for Jacob.

31:

Flight

Flight from Laban.  Covenant with him.  Rachael steals teraphim idol.

32:

Preparation

Preparation to meet Esau.  (32:1-21)

 

 

Wrestles the angel.  (32:22-32) name changed to "Israel".

33:

Reconciled

Reconciliation with Esau.

34:

Dinah

Dinah raped by Shechemites.  Avenged by brothers, Sineon & Levi

35:

Last Days

Last days of Isaac.  To Bethel.  Purges family idols.

 

 

Jacob changed to "Israel".  Pillar erected.

 

 

Rachael dies at Benjamin's birth.

 

 

Rueben lays with Bilhah.

 

 

Isaac dies.

 

 

 

IX.   GENERATIONS OF ESAU

36:

Esau

Family line.

 

 

 

X.    GENERATIONS OF JACOB       37-50

37:

Joseph

Colored coat.  Dreams.  Pit.  Sold.  Jacob deceived.

38:

Tamar

Tamar has twins by Judah, her father-in-law.

39:

Potiphar

Potiphar and Joseph.  Prospers.  Accused by wife.  Imprisoned.

40:

Prison

Interprets dreams of Butler and Baker.

41:

Pharaoah

Interprets dreams.  Made a ruler.

 

 

Manasseh and Ephraim born.  Famine begins.

42:

Brothers

Brothers come.  He speaks roughly.  Simeon,  hostage.

 

 

Money in sacks.

 

 

Jacob refuses to permit Benjamin to go to Egypt.

43:

Benjamin

Benjamin to Egypt.  Benjamin given extra food.

44:

Testing

Testing his brothers.  Cup in Benjamin's sack.  Judah's plea.

45:

Revealed

Revealed to his brothers.  Pharoah's invitation.  Sent for Jacob.

46:

Egypt

Move to Egypt

 

 

Jacob's request concerning burial.

47:

Goshen

Settled in Goshen.  Talk with Pharoah.  Joseph's management.

48:

Joseph

Joseph's sons by Jacob.

49:

Prophecy

Prophecy concerning sons by Jacob.  Jacob dies.

50:

Last Days

Last days of Joseph.  Burial of Jacob.  Embalming Joseph.