Detailed Outline of the Scriptures
By Thomas L. Ayres @2007
To remember what the book of Genesis is about look at one word. COVENANT
It is the book of God’s Global Covenant of Salvation, the Creation Covenant of the Rainbow, The National Abrahamic Covenant, Royal Davidic Covenant, Palestinian Land Covenants, and Solaric Covenants. http://www.audiotreasure.com/mp3/KJV/01_Genesis/Genesis.m3u
C reation of the universe (1.1-2.3)
O rigination of sin (2.4-3-24)
V iolence in the earth due to sin (4.1-6.8)
E ntire world judged by flood (6.9-9.22)
N oah’s ark and the replenished earth (9.1-11.25)
A bram born and the origin of the nation of Israel (11.26-32)
N ational Covenant and Nations building (Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob and Esau) (12.1-15.21)
T he sons of Abram, Ishmael and Isaac and the twelve sons of Jacob in Egypt up until Joseph’s death * (16.1-31.8) (31.9-45.23) (45.24-50.26)
I. C reation of the universe (1.1-2.3)
(Read the first chapter of Revelation alongside Chapter 1-2)
A. Elemental foundations of the universe created (1-2 )
1. The heaven (all the hosts, universe, and including the angelic hosts) (1)
2. The earth (all of the earth, with all of its riches beneath its surface) (2)
B. Enviromental foundations of the solar system and the earth created (3-2.3)
1. The foundation for existence: Creation of light. (3-5) Day 1
a. Day 1 - He divides light and darkness
2. The foundation for fruitfulness: Creation of divisions. (6-13) Days 2-3
a. Day 2- He divides atmospheric water and earthly water
b. Day 3- He divides the water from the land and the earth is fruitful
3. The foundation for life's continuance: Seasons for Food to grow are necessary for existence. (14-19) Day 4
a. He divides the lights for day and night
b. He delineates the orbital course for the sun, moon and stars
C. Elementary foundations of the Animal and Human Kingdom created (3.20-2.3)
1. The foundation of fields and forests: Animals enviroment for living. (20-25) Day 5 and 6a
a. He divides creatures for the water, the air and the land
2. The foundation of watchcare and dominance: Man in the image of God. (26-28) Day 6b (the distinction between man and animal)
a. Man's creation given by God
1. male and female created equal
2. male and female created in God's image
b. Man's commands given by God
1. Be fruitful and multiply
2. Be overseer over all creation especially cultivating Eden 's garden
3. Be fed from every tree in the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil
4. Be dilligent to provide names to all creations creatures.
3. The foundation for creation's sustainance. Food's source was laid within the
arth (29,30)
a. Man was to eat from the fruit, nuts and vegetables produced by the earth.
b. All creatures were to eat from the herbs and plants produced by creations garden.
4. The foundation of creation's work ethic, rest and essential goodness: It becomes the basis for meeting man's spiritual and physical through rest from labor.(31-2.3) Day 7
a. He rests as an example not out of need
b. He rests from creating because creation is finished and complete.
c. He sanctifies the seventh day from other days of the week
d. He states the essential goodness of his creation.
II. O rigination of sin 2.4-3
(Read Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 along with Chapter 2 and 3 of Genesis)
A. The expanded creation (2.4-15)
1. The Purpose for man revealed (4-6)
a. God's provision of seed for the land
b. God's preparation of the soil by a mist to water the land
c. God's production of man to till the land
2. The Personal nature of man's creation detailed (7)
*Hebrew words are the same as a potter fashioning a pot. See Jeremiah 18-19
a. God fashioned man with his hands from the clay
b. God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
c. God caused man to become a living conscious enity
3. The Provision for man's life and work unveiled (8-14)
a. God planted a Garden for man to work
b. God grew plants and forest for food for man to eat
c. God created rivers to water the land for man to garden
4. The Placement of man to dress the garden and keep it tilled (15)
a.God placed man in the garden to till and prune it
b. God placed man in the garden to hedge about it
B. The extended commands for Man (2.16-17)
1. The extent of his subsistance: all but one can be eaten (16)
a. God created fruitful trees in the garden
b. God commanded man to eat from the trees in the garden
2. The end of his existance: when the forbidden fruit was eaten (17)
a. God created the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden
b. God commanded man would die if he ate of the that tree in the garden
C. The Endearing creation of Woman (2.18- 25)
1. The man's need for a helpmeet related (18)
a. God decreed man should not be alone
b. God determined to make a companion him
2. The man's naming of all creatures created (19-20)
a. God produced all the creatures of the sky and earth
b. God passed them by man for the naming of all the creatures of the sky and earth
3. The man's new partner created (21-23)
a. God caused man to sleep and took a rib from his side
b. God created woman from the rib from man's side
4. The man's noble covenant instituted (24-25)
a. Man shall leave his origional family
b. Man shall cleave to his wife establishing a new family
D. The Expensive charade of the serpent (3.1-6)
(Genesis 3:6) So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
1. The subtity of the serpent's lies (1-5)
a. The serpent casts doubt on God's commands
b. The serpent causes the woman to distrust God's commands
c. The serpent cheats the woman by misinformation on God's commands
2. The sinfulness that willfulness buys (6)
(read 2 Samuel 11; 1 John 2.16 along with this passage)
a. The woman's lust after the beauty of the fruit
b. The woman's lust for the taste of the fruit
c. The woman's lust for the pride of life's wisdom to be gained from the fruit
E. The elevated cost for disobedience (3.7-13)
1. Adam's Deceit resulted in the sudden awareness of their shame
a. They saw their sin
b. They knew their nakedness
2. Adam's Disobedience resulted in covering nakedness with leaves
a. They took leaves
b. They covered their nakedness
3. Adam's Defeat resulted in the fearful hiding among the trees
a. They heard God calling them in the midst of the trees of the garden
b. They hid themselves from God calling to them in the trees of the garden
4. Adam's Defense resulted in the self-centered offensive blame
a. Fearful Adam blamed the woman God had created
b. Fearful Eve blamed the serpent God had created
(Fear for themselves caused them to blame God for their sin)
F. The excruciating culmination of God's decree (3.14-24)
(Note timing of this event may have been early near the creation of man and woman. See Ezekiel 28 for that description of Lucifer. Also note that man just now names woman 3.20)
1. The serpent's subterfuge punished (3.14)
a. His sentence was to spend his existence: Crawling in the dust
b. His sentence was in the future to have a: Crushed head in defeat
2. The Savior's salvation promised ( 3:15 ,20)
a. He would be the: Seed of Woman. (virgin conception prefigured)
b. He would be the: Serpent crusher
c. He would be the: Sin bearer
3. The snared woman's sentence proclaimed ( 3:16 )
a. Her sentence was to have: Grief in child birth
b. Her sentence was to be: Governed by her husband
4. The sinful man's sentence pronounced ( 3:17 -18)
a. His sentence: defeat in his work in the field
b. His sentence as well as the woman was: death to their physical life in the world
5. The sinners access to the garden prohibited
a. A grace extended (22)
b. A gate guarded (23-24)
II. V iolence due to sin fills the earth (4.1-6.8)
A. Unacceptable worship precedes murder (4.1-15)
(Genesis 4:15) And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
1. God gives Adam and Eve sons Cain and Abel (1-2)
a. Cain was a tiller of the ground
b. Abel was a shepherd of the sheep
2. God is worshiped by Cain and Abel (3)
a. Cain brings an offering from the work of his hands
b. Abel brings an offering from the work of his sheep
3. God is not satisfied with Cain's but is with Abel (5-8)
a. God has no respect unto Cain's heart
b. God has respect unto Abel's heart
4. God confronts Cain about Abel (9-10)
a. God questions Cain about Abel's whereabouts
b. God corners Cain about the blood of Abel as a witness
B. Unbearable punishment protects the murderer ( 4:11 -24)
1. Disciplined Cain is cursed to wander (11-12)
(Note the relationship to Cain's punishment to Adam's punishment. Also note that his murder of Abel and his punishment bring more sorrow to Eve's heart)
a. The irony of his punishment's relationship to his work
b. The irony of his punishment's relationship to his wandering
2. Dejected Cain's complaint of worry (13-15)
a. Cain fears he cannot bear his punishment
b. Cain fears others will butcher him as more punishment
c. Cain recieves a mark from God to protect him from future punishment
3. Descendants of Cain's become builders (16-17)
a. Cain marries and builds the city of Enoch in the land of Nod
b. Cain's son Enoch marries and dwells in the land of Nod
4. Descendants of Cain's are tent dwellers (18-20)
a. Cain's grandson Lamech marries two wives
1. Adah
2. Zillah
b. Cain's grandson Lamech has a son Jabal, a wanderer
1. He dwells in tent
2. He works cattle
5. Descendants of Cain's are musicians (21)
a. Cain's grandson Lamech has a son Jubal, a musician
1. He plays the harp
2. He plays the organ
6. Descendants of Cain's are metal workers (22)
a. Cain's grandson Lamech has a son Tubal-cain, a worker of metals
1. He worked brass
2. He worked iron
7. Descendant of Cain's follow in his footsteps (23-24)
a. Cain's grandson Lamech kills a young man
b. Cain's grandson Lamech claims God's protection in an oath
C. Unthinkable pain turns to hope at pregnancy of the mother ( 4:25 -26)
1. Eve gives birth to a third son, her grief ended (25)
a. Grief does not hinder the first couple's desire to fulfill the commands of God to fill the earth
b. God again gives Adam and Eve a son which helps in healing their collective grief
2. Eve names him Seth and her faith is rekindled (26)
a. Even knew that children come from God
b. Evidence of his godly impact is seen how more people pray to God during his lifetime
D. Understandible lineage provided of Adam the first man (5.1)
1. Ancestor patriarchs before the flood (1-17)
a. From Adam to Seth is 130 years
b. From Seth to Enos 500 years
c. From Enos to Cainan 90 years
d. From Cainan to Mahalaleel 70 years
e. From Mahalaleel to Jared 65 years
2. Amazing personal life of Enoch's Faith (18-24)
a. His relationship
b. His rapture
3. Ancient Patriarch signals God's Wrath finale (5.24-32)
a. Methuselah's designation
b. Methuselah's demise
E. Unprecedented sin produced from the Heart of Man (6.1)
1. The wickedness of man brings judgement (6.1-5)
a. Man took his eyes off of the will of God and began to pursue his own agenda
b. Man due to his sin became an object of wrath rather than the Grace of God.
2. The worshipful spirit of Noah found grace in God's justice. (6.6-8)
a. God's repenting is merely a change in dealing with man due to his sin
b. God's repenting does not include every man because Noah found grace in his eyes
III. E ntire world judged by flood (6.9-8.22)
1. The righteousness of a man brings hope (6.8-10)
a. He found grace before God
b. He walked with God
c. He fathered three sons from God
2. The faithfulness of Noah builds the ark (6.11-22)
a. destruction concieved
b. design received
c. declaration believed
3. The Graciousness of God delivers mankind (7.1-9)
a. Noah commanded to enter the ark
b. Noah called upon to gather animals to the ark
4. The completeness of the water covering the earth (7.10-17)
a. Water from above
b. Water from beneath
c. Water judgement averted
d. Water judgement begun
5. The endless rains cease from above and below (7.18-8.4)
a. After the mountains were covered 18-20
b. After all that breathed were drowned 21-24
c. After God remembered Noah 8.1-4
6. The dryness of the land appeared (8.5-12)
a. The raven test: The raven feeds on the dead 5-7
b. The dove test: The dove cannot find a place to land 8-11
c. The dove test: The dove does not return to his hand 12
7. The fullness of Noah's exit from the ark (8.13-22)
a. God commanded Noah and his family to go forth from the ark 13-16
b. God commanded Noah to bring the animals forth from the ark 17-19
c. Noah builded an altar of thanksgiving to God for the safety of the ark 20
d. God covenanted to never destroy the world by flood and need an ark 21-22
IV. N oah’s family and the replenished earth (9.1-11.25)
A. All animals soon will fear men and become their cuisine (9.1-10)
1. God commanded Noah fill the earth and warned that all creatures would see them with fear (1-3, 7)
a. God blessed Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply 1
b. Animals are given for meat but will be fearful of man 2-3
2. God commanded Noah that creatures could be eaten except blood and his own blood would be required at the killing of another (4-6)
a. Man is not to eat living flesh or blood 4
b. Man is not to murder man because he was made in the image of God 5-6
3. God commanded Noah to receive the renewed covenant and with all the creatures from the ark to go forth (7-10)
a. God renews the covenant promises to Noah and his sons 7-9
b. God commands Noah to leave the ark 10
B. A sign in the sky reminds men God will not flood above the mountain (9.11-17)
1. God's covenant that a flood will not destroy the earth (11-12)
a. I will not destroy the world with water 11-12
2. God's covenant sign in the sky as a visible guarentee was above the earth (13-16)
a. My covenant sign reminder is the rainbow in the cloud 13-16
3. God's covenant was between himself and all of the creatures on the earth. (17)
b. My covenant is a global covenant with all creation 17
C. A slip caused by Noah ends in his son's shame (9.18-24)
1. Noah and his family disperse and obey the filling of the earth (18-19)
a. Noah and his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth came forth with their wives
2. Noah began to farm raising a vineyard, made wine and became the first drunk in the earth (20-21)
a. Noah began to farm like Cain his ancestor and Noah became drunk
3. Noah being uncovered in his tent was ridiculed publicly by Ham his second son on the earth. (22)
a. Ham shamed his father in front of his brethern
4. Noah being asleep in his tent was respected by Shem and Japeth his first and third born sons on the earth
a. Shem and Japheth had respect for their father
5. Noah being wakened from his wine knew Ham's sin and cursed his grandson. (23-24)
a. Noah knew what Ham had done
D. A sad curse by Noah damages Canaan 's good name (9.25-29)
1. Noah cursed Canaan 's descendants.
a. He curses his grandson by Ham instead of Ham directly
b. He curses them to serve their brothers.
2. Noah blessed the descendants of Shem that Canaan shall serve his brother
a. Noah blesses Shem
b. He says that Canaan shall serve him
3. Noah prophecied that Japeth would dwell with Shem and Canaan shall serve his brother
a. Noah prophecies Japheth will dwell with Shem
b. He says that Canaan will serve him
4. Noah was blessed of God.
a. He lived 350 years after the flood
b. He died and was buried
E. A short list of Noah's descendants through Japeth, Ham and Shem (10.1-32)
1. Japeth the Elder's sons: 1-5
a. Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras
1. Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah
2. Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim
2. Ham's sons: 6-
a. Cush , Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan
1. Cush 's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtecha and Nimrod
a. Raamah's sons: Sheba , and Dedan
b. Nimrod was a mighty Hunter
1. He established Babel ,
2. He established Erech
3. He established Accad
4. He established Calneh in the land of Shinar
a. Out of that land went Asshur
1. He built Nineveh
2. He built Rehoboth
3. He built Calah
4. He also built the Great city Resen between Nineveh and Calah . -10:12
2. Misraim son's: Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistim forefather) and Caphtorim.
3. Canaan 's sons: Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, Arkite, and Sinite, Arvadite, Semarite, Hamathite
a. This spread the Canaanite families far abroad
b. The border was from Sidon , near Gerar and Gaza c. It was near Sodom , Gomorrah , Admah, Zeboim and Lasha 10:20
4. Shem's sons: Children of Eber: Elam , Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram .
a. Aram 's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash
b. Arphaxad's sons: Salah
1. Salah's sons: Eber 10:24
a. Eber's sons: Peleg (born during the division of the earth) and Joktan
1. Joktan's sons: Almodad, Sheleph, Mazarmaveth, Jerah and Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael , Sheba , Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab
a. They dwelt from Mesha on the way to the eastern Mount Sephar 10:1 - 10:32
F. A sin at Babel brings scatters and confuses the language of men (11.1-9)
1. The sin of idolatry 1-4
a. One language unified their sin (see end time similarities)
b. One relgion in one place
2. The sons of men are scattered 5-8
a. God saw their sin
b. God confused their language
c. They scattered across the earth (Thus fulfilling indirectly God's command to fill the earth: Compare acts, the gift of tongues and Saul scattering the early church to fulfill the Great Commission)
3. The tongues of men are confused 9
G. A Shemite genealogy shows his connection with Abraham (11.10-25)
1. Shem was 100 and had his son Arphaxad 10
2. Shem lived 500 more years with many more children 11
a. Arphaxad was 35 when he had his son Salah 12
b. Arphaxad lived 403 more years with many more children 13
1. Salah was 30 when he had son Eber 14
2. Salah lived 403 more years with many more children 15
a. Eber was 34 years when he had son Peleg 16
b. Eber lived 430 years with many more children 17
1. Peleg was 30 when he had son Reu 18
2. Peleg lived 209 years with many more children 19
a. Reu was 32 when he had son Serug 20
b. Reu lived 207 years with many more children 21
1. Serug was 30 when he had Nahor 22
2. Serug lived 200 years with more children 23
a. Nahor was 29 when he had Terah 24
b. Nahor lived 119 years with many more children 25
V. A bram born to Terah and began the origin of the nation of Israel 11.26-32
A. Terah's generations to Abram 26-27
1. Abram father of many nations
2. Nahor
3. Haran father of Lot and the
B. The death of Haran and Marriage of Abram and Nahor 28 -29
1. Haran dies before his father Terah
2. Abram and Nahor take wives Sarai and Milcah (daughter of Haran )
C. The barreness of Sarai 30
1. Sarai was barren
D. The call of Abram 31
1. Terah and Lot leave the Ur of Chaldees together and dwell in Haran
E. The Death of Terah 32
1. Terah dies at age 205 in Haran
VI. N ational Covenant and Nations building (Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob and Esau) 12.1-15.21
A. The call of Abram 1
1. Leave your country
2. Leave you kindred
3. Go where I will show you
B. The covenant of God 2-4
1. I will make a great nation from you
2. I will bless them that bless you
3. I will curse them that curse you
4. I will use Your family to bless the whole earth
C. The obedience of Abram 4-7
1. Abram's land journey
2. God's land covenant
D. The wanderings to Egypt 8-20
1. Abram spends time with God before traveling toward the Negev 8-9
2. Abram runs into a terrible famine and heads towards Egypt without beginning in prayer 10-11
3. Abram fears the Egyptians are going to kill him and take Sarah away because of her beauty 12-13
4. The princes see Sarah and tell Pharoah who brings her into his court 14-15
5. Pharoah treats Abram well for Sarah's sake but God plague's Pharoah 16-17
6. Pharoah beseeches Abram to take Sarah and leave 18-20
E. Abram's wealth 6-13
1. Abram takes his family and finances out of the land of Egypt 1-2
2. Abram settles between Bethel and Hai building and altar to God 3-4
3. Lot and Abram separate because of their great wealth 5-11
4. Lot picks Sodom and Gomorrah which were wicked cities 12-13
F. The War against Five Kings 13:14-14:16
1. The Lord renews the covenant with Abram 14-18
2. Amraphel, Arioch, Chedorlaomer, and Tidal come against Bera, Birsha, Shinab, Shemeber, and Zoar 14.1-4
3. Kings with Chedorlaomer smote the surrounding countries 5-9
4. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled before them loosing people and possessions 10-12
5. An escapee comes and tells Abram that Lot and others had been captured 12-13
6. Abram takes his servants and they attack the enemy recovering the people and possessions stolen 14-16
G. Melchizedek's Blessing 14.17-24
1. The King of Sodom and Salem come forth to meet Abram 17-18
2. The King of Salem worships God and blesses Abram 19
3. Abram pays tithes to God's Priest the King of Salem 20
4. The King of Sodom offers Abram riches from the battle 21
5. Abram will not take of the spoils because he honors God 22-24
H. The Blessing of the Lord 15.1-21
1. The Lord renews the covenant with Abram once again and promises him a son 1
2. Abram offers up his servant as his heir 2-3
3. Abram's offer is refused by God who again renews the covenant promises 4-5
4. Abram believes God and God accounts to him righteousness 6
5. God reminds Abram of his calling and covenants with him through sacrifice 7-11
6. God promises Abram though Egypt shall afflict the promised nation they will come out better 12-15
7. God seals his covenant in the sacrifice 16-17
8. God details the boundaries of the land 18-21
VII . T he twelve sons of Jacob in Egypt up until Joseph’s death * 16.1-50.26
A. Sarai's compromise to get an Heir 16.1-16
1. Sarai still has no child 1
2. Sarai copies the world's plan to get a child through Hagar 1-3
11. Sarai and Abram provide a child through Hagar 4
12. Sarai becomes hated by Hagar 4
13. Sarai begins to mistreat Hagar 5-6
14. Sarai drives Hagar away where she meets with God 7-14
15. Sarai has to watch as Hagar returns and rears Ishmael 15-16
B. Abram's circumcision to distinguish him as God's heir 17.1-27
1. Abram gets a additional name 17.1-8
2. Abraham's gest an national identity (circumcision)
C. Sarai's covenant from God to receive a child to bear 15-19
1. Sarai gets a new name
2. Sarah promised to mother nations
D. Abraham's covenant from God concerning Ishmael who is not the heir 17.20-27
1. Abraham's promise of God to make Ishmael a great nation
2. Abraham circumsizes Ishamel and the men to be different from other nations
E. Abraham's Compassion 18-19.38
1. The welcome of Abraham 18.1-15
2. The wonder of Sarah 18.9-15
3. The woeful news for Sodom 18.16-19.38
a. God's indictment against Sodom and Gomorah
b. God's information to Abraham about Sodom and Gomorrah
4. The work of intercession by Abraham
a. Fifty righteous
b. Forty Five righteous
c. Forty righteous
d. Thirty righteous
e. Twenty righteous
f. Ten righteous
5. The wicked are incinerated by God 19.1-38
F. Abraham's contrived dishonesty 20.1-18
1. Abraham's deception against Abimelech
1. Abimelech's taking Sarah from Abraham
2. Abimelech's dream of God's Judgement
3. Abraham's deliverance prayer
G. Abraham's covenant child is born 21.1-18
1. The child is born and name Laughter (Isaac) 1-7
2. Isaac is weaned and Ishmael mocks him 8-9
3. Sarah makes Abraham drive Hagar and Ishmael away 10-14
4. Hagar is fearful yet God is faithful 15-18
H. Abraham's contract with Abimelech 21.22-30
1. Follows the lines of ancient covenants 22-24
2. Abimelech's men without his knowledge take some of Abraham's wells 25-26
3. Abraham and Abimelech resolve the issue at Beersheba (The well of the Oath) 27-34
I. Abraham's check of his Faith 22.1-24
1. God says Abraham give me your only son 1-2
2. God says Abraham follow me to a place I will show you 3
3. God tells Abraham I will supply the sacrifice 4-8
4. God tells Abraham to bind his son and lay him on the altar 9-10
5. God stops Abraham in slaying his son and gives him a substitute sacrifice 11-13
6. God gives Abraham a new name to use to call Him 14
7. God renews his covenant with Abraham and promises many descendants 15-24
J. Abraham bereavement is comforted in finding a wife for Isaac 23.1-24.67
1. Sarah dies at 127 and Abraham buries her at Macpelah 1-20
2. Abraham instructs Eliezer to find Isaac a wife from the land of Mesopotamia 24.1-6
3. Abraham and Eliezer rely on the Lord's faithfulness 7-9
4. Eliezer Prays for God's guidance to find Isaac a Wife 10-14
5. Rebekah fulfills Eliezer's prayer completely 15-33
6. Eliezer recounts Abraham's task 34-41
7. Eliezer recounts his answer from God 42-44
8. Rebekah is persuaded to become Isaac's wife 45-67
K. Abraham covenants in marriage again 25.1-18
1. Abraham marries Keturah and has 6 more sons 1-3
2. Abraham's sons become nations such as Midian 4
3. Abraham wills his wealth to his sons primarily Isaac 5-6
4. Abraham dies at 175 7-11
5. Ishmael's descendants are blessed 12-18
L. Isaac's life copies his Father's life 25.18-36.43
1. Isaac loves Rebekah and they have twin sons Esau and Jacob 19-26
2. Esau as a man sells his birthright for a bowl of cabbage 27-34
3. Isaac like Abraham lies about his wife in Philistia 26.1-16
4. Like Abraham, Isaac and the people of Gerar argue over water wells 17-22
5. Like Abraham, God renews his covenant with Isaac 23-25
6. Like Abraham and Abimelech, Isaac and the Philistian people make peace 26-33
7. Esau marries a Hittite displeasing Isaac; Rebekah and Jacob decieve Isaac and steal Esau's blessing 34-27.38
8. Isaac Prophecies concerning Esau and Jacob 39-41
9. Jacob flees after Esau vows to kill him 42-28.5
10. Esau tries to find favor with his parents by marrying Ishmael's daughter Mahalath 6-9
11. Esau's descendants described 36.1-43
M. Jacob's cheating like his fathers is brought back upon his life 28.1-29.30
1. Isaac passes the Covenant on to Jacob and sends him away 1-9
2. Jacob sees a vision of heaven on a ladder and God renews the covenant with Jacob 10-15
3. Jacob vows a vow to God to pay him a tithe if God protects him 16-22
4. Jacob loves Rachel and labors 7 years for her 29.1-21
5. Deception befalls Jacob by his father in law Laban who substitues Leah for Rachel 22-30
N. Jacob contracts work for 7 years to marry Rachel, has 12 sons and one daughter through his four wives 29.31-35.26
1. Jacob has twelve sons 28- 35.18
a. Leah bears Reuben
b. Leah bears Simeon
c. Leah bears Levi
d. Leah bears Judah
e. Bilhah bears Dan
f. Bilhah bears Naphtali
g. Zilpah bears Gad
h. Zilpah bears Asher
i. Leah bears Issachar
j. Leah bears Zebulun
k. Rachel bears Joseph
l. Rachel bears Benjamin
m. Leah bears one daughter Dinah between Zebulun and Joseph
2. Jacob leaves Laban and goes home to deal with Esau 31.1-55
a. Laban turns against his son in law 1-2
b. God tells Jacob to go home 3-13
c. Laban learns that Jacob left without saying goodbye 17-25
d. Laban warned of God not to harm Jacob accuses him of stealing idols 26-30
e. Both men agree to a hasty truce 31-55
3. Jacob wrestles with God at Jabbok 32.1-32
a. Jacob meets angels along the way home 1-2
b. Jacob sends messengers on to meet Esau 3-5
c. Learning Esau comes with 400 men Jacob cries out to God reminding him of his covenant and his vow. (note the vow has been unpaid) 6-12
d. Jacob sends presents trying to bribe friendship with Esau 13-21
e. Jacob wrestles with God, God changes his name and Israel meets Esau 22-33.16
4. Jacob experiences revival 33.17-20
a. Jacob buys a field and builds an altar
b. Jacob calls the place God, the God of Israel
5. Jacob's daughter Dinah raped by Shechem and their defeat 34.1-
a. Shechem thinks he loves Dinah and asks his father to get her for him 1-5
b. Hamor and Shechem offer dowry and ask Jacob to stay and live in their land 6-12
c. The sons of Jacob tell Hamor that they must be circumcised 13-18
d. Hamor and the city agree and are circumcised 19-24
e. Jacob's sons fall upon the men and slay them while they are recovering 25-30
f. Jacob is angry with his sons for spoiling the city 30-31
6. God renews his covenant with Jacob again 35.1-26
(check and see if Jacob's name changed in 32-33 is used a Jacob in the next section in dealing with the world and he may not have taken to his new name until 35 when God renews the covenant and Jacob repents fully getting rid of those gods his wife had stolen?)
a. Jacob calls his people together to clean up and put away their idols 1-6
b. Rebekah's nurse dies and in his grief God renews his covenant with Jacob 7-15
c. Rachel bears Benjamin and dies 16-20
d. Israel sojourns beyond Edar and his son Reuben takes Bilhah 21-26
O. Israel continues his sojourn 35.27 – 38.30
1. Isaac dies; Jacob and Esau bury their father. 27-29
a. Jacob comes to Heber
b. Isaac lived till 180 years
c. Jacob and Esau bury their father
2. God blesses Esau and these are his generations 36.1-43
a. Esau is the same as Edom where his people dwelt 1-4
1. Adah the Hitite bore him Eliphaz
2. Bashemath the Ishmaelite bore him Reuel
3. Aholibamah the Hivite bore him: Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah
b. Esau to his family moved away from Jacob to Mt Seir in Edom because he was very rich. 6-9 (see verse 7 remeniscient of Abram and Lot's seperation)
c. Eliphaz son of Adah had sons: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz also Eliphaz had Amalek by Timna the concubine 10-12
d. Reul the son of Bashemath had sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
3. Seir the Horite who dwelled in the land before Esau
a. Seir had sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon and Anah, Dishon, Ezer, Dishan and daughter Timna 20-21
1. Lotan had children: Hori, Henmam
2. Shobal had these children: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, Onam
3. Zibeon had these children: Ajahm Anah (He found his father's mules in the wilderness)
4. Anah had these children: Dishon, Aholibamah his daughter
5. Dishon had these children: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, Cheran
6. Ezer had these children: Bilhan, Zaavan, Akan
7. Dishan bore these children: Uz, Aran
b. Kings who reigned in Edom
1. Bela son of Beor in city Dinhabah
2. Jobab son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned when Bela died
3. Jobab died and Husham of Temani reigned
4. Husham died and Hadad son of Bedad reigned (He killed Midian in the field of Moab) His city was Avith
5. Hadad died and Samlah of Masrekah reigned 6. Samlah died and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned
7. Saul died and Baalhanan son of Achbor reigned
8. Baalhanan died and Hadar reigned from the city Pau and his wife was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab
c. Dukes that came of Esau 36.43
1. Timnah, Alvah, Jetheth
2. Aholibamah, Elah, Pinon
3. Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar
4. Magdiel, Iram
4. God blesses the life of Israel's son Joseph 37.1
a. He was loved more than his brethern 37.1-3
1. He was the son of Jacob's favorite wife
2. He was the son of Jacob's old age
b. He was hated by his brothers 1-11
1. Because their father doted on Jacob by giving him a special gift
2. Because he prophecied from dreams he had that they would submit to him
c. He was mistreated by his brothers 12-35
1. Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers who plan to kill him
2. Hoping to get him later Reuben convinces them to put him in a pit
3. The brothers decide rather to sell him to Ishmaelite traders
4. The brothers then trick their father that Joseph has been killed by an animal
d. While He was sold into slavery Judah gets a wife 37.36-38.30
1. Judah marries Shuah Shuah 38.1-2
2. Shuah concieved and had sons: Er, Onan, Shelah (born at Chezib) 3-5
3. Judah took Er a wife whose name was Tamar 6-
4. Er's firstborn was sinful and God killed him 7
5. Judah commanded Onan to raise up seed to Tamar who did not 8-9
6. God killed Onan for disobedience and Judah promised Tamar Shelah when grown up 10-12
7. Tamar decieves Judah to find a child from him since Shelah had grown up and Judah had not kept his promise 13-17
8. Tamar secretly has a child by Judah 18-24
9. Judah plans to put Tamar to death because of her whoredom 24
10. Tamar reveals that Judah is the father and he forgives her 25-26
11. Tamar has twins named Pharez and Zarah 27-30
e. Joseph becomes the most effective servant in Potiphar the chief of the Palace Guard's home. 39.1-40.23
1. Potiphar's wife seduces Joseph who successfully resists 1-12
2. Joseph is falsely accused and cast into prison 13-20
3. Joseph gains favor with the Jailer and is placed in charge 21-23
4. Joseph meets Pharoah's cupbearer and Baker 40.1-8
5. Joseph interprets their confusing dreams and asks to be remembered to Pharoah 40.9-19
6. Just as Joseph interpreted the baker dies but the cup bearer forgets Joseph 20-23
f. Pharoah dreams confusing dreams and Joseph is remembered by the cup bearer as an interpreter of dreams 41.36
1. Pharoah dreams firstly of thin cattle eating fat cattle 1-4
2. Pharoah dreams secondly of thin ears of grain eating healthy ones 5-8
3. The cupbearer remembers Joseph when no one can interpret the dreams 9-13
4. Joseph interprets the dreams that seven years of prosperity will be followed by 7 years of famine. 14-32
5. Joseph recommends a plan of storing up food in the plentous times and sharing that food during the famine 33-36
6. Pharoah promotes Joseph to oversee this work for the Kingdom. 37-57
g. During the famine people come from all over to buy grain.
1. Jacob sends his sons on their first trip to Egypt to buy grain 42.1-38
a. Joseph recognizes his brothers
b. His brothers do not recognize him
c. Joseph sets a trap and accuses them of stealing
d. Joseph demans they bring back their baby brother Benjamin
e. The brothers feel guilt and think that God is punishing them
f. Joseph hides himself to weep
g. Joseph's brothers return and tell their father what has transpired 42.38
h. After Jacob refuses to let Benjamin go back with them Judah convinces him 43.1-14
i. On their second journey they arrive and Joseph feeds them but plants silver in their bags 15-44.17
j. Convinced they are going to lose Benjamin, Judah begs to be substituted for him 44.18-34
2. Joseph unveils himself to his brothers 45.1-28
a. He tells them God has planned this to do good for their family
b. Joseph tells them to go home and get their father
c. Upon seeing his sons with wealth Jacob is convinced of Joseph's life
h. Aged Jacob makes the trip to Egypt 46.1-47.31
1. Jacob moves to Egypt at the word of God 1-7
2. Jacob moves all of his family to Egypt 8-27
3. Jacob meets Joseph and settles in Goshen 46.28-47.10
4. Joseph takes care of his family in Goshen 47.11-12
5. Joseph establishes a program of taxing that provides for the needs of the nations and surrounding nations 13-26
6. Joseph promsies his father that he will bury him in the promised land 47.27-31
7. Jacob blesses the grandchildren 48.1-22
i. Joseph's forgiving spirit 49.1-50.26
1. Jacob blesses his sons 1-27
a. Reuben is blessed less due to his immoral bent
b. Simeon and Levi are cruel men and their descendants will be scattered throughout the promised land
c. Judah will be praised by his brethern and the royal line for Messiah will come through him
d. Zebulun will live by the shore and build harbors for ships
e. Issachar is like a strong donkey and will work with animals
f. Dan is like a snake in the ditch
g. Gad will defend against his enemies
h. Asher will harvest food fit for royalty
i. Naphtali will run free like a deer
j. Joseph will be a fruitful tree and be a blessing as a prince among his brethern
k. Benjamin will devour his enemies like a ravenous wolf.
2. Jacob dies and requests to be buried at Macpelah 28-50.26
a. After mourning the brothers carry their father to Macpelah 50.1-14
b. Joseph once again forgives his brothers who worry now that Jacob is dead 50.15-21
c. Joseph lives to see many grandchildren and dies at 110 50.22—26
