Written By Moses
Written for God’s chosen people. The Israelites who were in slavery for 400 years and controlled by the Egyptians.
Theme: Creation of the world, The flood, God’s plan of redemption
Genesis means origin.
- The creation of the world
Adam and Eve
- First human beings on the earth
- First Sinners
- They were sent out of the garden
- Had Two sons Cain and Abel
- Cain killed Abel
Noah
- Had three sons
- The only person the Lord was pleased with and didn’t kill when He flooded the earth
- Built a boat to save himself , his family and the animals.
Abraham
- A Hebrew,
- God’s friend was highly favored.
- Nephew named Lot whom He saved
- Got kidnapped by four Kings
- Had many descendants
- A son named Ishmael who He had with Hagar a slave
- A son named Isaac whom he had with his wife Sarah
- Two sons Jacob and Esau
Isaac
- Married Rebecca daughter of Bethuel
- Sent Jacob away to Mesopotamia to find a wife
Jacob
- Struggled against Esau in the womb
- Esau promised to give him the first born rights
- Stole his brother’s Esau blessing
- Dressed up as Esau and tricked Isaac into blessing him.
- Worked fourteen years for Laban to marry Rachel
- Laban tricked him into sleeping with Rachel’s sister Leah
- Loved Rachel more than Leah
- Ran away from Laban
- Had twelve sons
- Built an altar to the Lord in Bethel
- His new name was Israel
Joseph
- His brothers hated him
- They plotted to kill him and throw Him in a pit
- was a servant and his master left him in charge of all his things (property, etc.)
- Interprets a prisoners dream
- Interprets the King’s dream
- Endured 13 years of suffering/ was a slave
- Became the second most powerful person of His time in Egypt
- Brang his brothers to repentance
- Saved the people of Egypt and Canaan from a famine with His food
- His father Jacob blessed His two sons Ephraim and Manasseh
