Outline for the book of Genesis

Primeval History (1:1–11:26)

God’s creation and ordering of heaven and earth (1:1–2:3)

Earth’s first people (2:4–4:26)

The man and woman in the sanctuary of Eden (2:4–25)

The couple rebels against God (3:1–24)

Adam and Eve’s sons (4:1–26)

Adam’s descendants (5:1–6:8)

The family line from Adam to Noah (5:1–32)

The wickedness of humanity (6:1–8)

Noah’s descendants (6:9–9:29)

Noah and the flood (6:9–9:19)

The cursing of Canaan (9:20–29)

The descendants of Noah’s sons (10:1–11:9)

The clans, languages, lands, and nations (10:1–32)

The Tower of Babel (11:1–9)

Shem’s descendants (11:10–26)

Patriarchal History (11:27–50:26)

Terah’s descendants (11:27–25:18)

A brief introduction to Terah’s family (11:27–32)

Abram’s migration to Canaan (12:1–9)

Abram in Egypt (12:10–20)

Abram and Lot separate (13:1–18)

Abram’s rescue of Lot (14:1–24)

God’s covenant with Abram (15:1–21)

The birth of Ishmael (16:1–16)

The covenant of circumcision (17:1–27)

The destruction of Sodom (18:1–19:29)

Lot’s relationship with his daughters (19:30–38)

Abimelech takes Sarah into his harem (20:1–18)

The birth of Isaac (21:1–21)

Abimelech makes a treaty with Abraham (21:22–34)

The testing of Abraham (22:1–19)

Nahor’s children (22:20–24)

The death and burial of Sarah (23:1–20)

A wife for Isaac (24:1–67)

The death of Abraham (25:1–11)

The genealogy of Ishmael (25:12–18)

Isaac’s descendants (25:19–37:1)

The birth of Esau and Jacob (25:19–26)

Esau sells his birthright (25:27–34)

Isaac in Gerar (26:1–35)

Isaac blesses Jacob (27:1–45)

Jacob is sent to find a wife (27:46–28:9)

Jacob at Bethel (28:10–22)

Jacob meets Rachel and Laban (29:1–14)

Jacob marries Leah and Rachel (29:15–30)

Jacob’s children (29:31–30:24)

Jacob prepares to return to Canaan (30:25–31:18)

Laban accuses Jacob in Gilead (31:19–55)

Jacob prepares to meet Esau again (32:1–21)

Jacob encounters God at Peniel (32:22–32)

Jacob is reconciled with Esau (33:1–20)

The rape of Dinah (34:1–31)

Jacob’s onward journey to Hebron (35:1–29)

Esau’s descendants in Edom (36:1–37:1)

Jacob’s descendants (37:2–50:26)

Joseph is sold into slavery (37:2–36)

Judah and Tamar (38:1–30)

Joseph in Egypt (39:1–23)

Joseph and the king’s prisoners (40:1–23)

Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams (41:1–57)

The brothers’ first journey to Egypt (42:1–38)

Joseph’s brothers return to Egypt (43:1–34)

Benjamin is accused of stealing (44:1–34)

Joseph discloses his identity (45:1–28)

Jacob’s family relocates to Egypt (46:1–27)

Jacob’s family settles in Egypt (46:28–47:12)

Joseph oversees the famine response in Egypt (47:13–26)

Jacob requests to be buried in Canaan (47:27–31)

Jacob’s blessing of Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh (48:1–22)

Jacob blesses his 12 sons (49:1–28)

The death and burial of Jacob (49:29–50:14)

Joseph reassures his brothers (50:15–21)

The death of Joseph (50:22–26)