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The 7 or Seven Days of Creation
Genesis 1:3-3:24. The Book of Genesis, which is the first book of the Bible, starts with the creation of the world. God is the creator of our world. The Hebrew title of the Book of Genesis is Beginnings. This is because many new beginnings are recorded in Genesis. Genesis is the first book of the Law of Moses, or Torah, which consists of the first five books of the Bible. There are seven periods of creation recorded in the beginning of Genesis. Although each of these has been translated as a “day”, the Hebrew word is “yom” which simply means a period of time with a beginning and an ending. Read more »
Adam was the first created man specifically named in Scripture
Genesis 1:26- 2:25. Adam was a special man created by God. The creation of Adam is described in Genesis 2:7. God created him from the dust of the
ground, breathed life into him and placed him in the garden of Eden. Adam was given the task of naming all the animals. As Adam was lonely, God formed a wife, named Eve, out of one of Adam's ribs. Adam died at the age of 930 years. In Hebrew Adam means: of the ground, reddish earth.
Background Reading: 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, Read more »
Background Reading: 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, Read more »
Eve the first woman specifically named in Scripture
Genesis 2:18-25. Eve was specially created to be the wife and partner of the man Adam, whose creation is described in the beginning of Genesis. God had seen that none of the animals was a suitable helpmate for the man. Adam called his wife Eve. Her name in Hebrew means: life, life-giving. We are not told how old Eve was when she died nor is her death recorded in Scripture. Eve is not mentioned again after the birth of Seth at the end of Genesis 4, other than in two quotations in the New Testament - 2 Corinthians 11:3 and 1 Timothy 2:12-14. Read more »
Tree of Life
Genesis 3:1-24. The war between God and Satan heats up, with Satan involving the man, Adam, in his schemes to beat God. A fight Satan will ultimately lose.
23 therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life. Background Reading: Read more »
Cain the first human murderer and older brother of Abel
Cain's story is told in Genesis 4:1-24.
He was the older brother of Abel. Cain worked the land and Abel looked after the animals.
Abel did what God asked him to do but Cain did what he thought he should do. When God was not pleased with Cain's offering, Cain became very angry.
He ignored God's advice as to how he could fix it and murdered his brother instead. he murder of Abel was evil in God's eyes, and so Cain was banished from the presence of the Lord in that part of the earth.
Cain was the first human murderer recorded in the Bible. Satan was the first murderer recorded in the Bible. Read more »
Abel a righteous man
The story of Abel a righteous man is told in Genesis 4:2-12. Abel, the younger brother of Cain, was called righteous as he did things God's way. He was a shepherd and looked after animals. Abel did well in God's sight but was murdered by his older brother because of envy and jealousy. Abel (hebel in Hebrew) means: Transitoriness, grassy meadow, breath.
Background Reading: 4:1 Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Read more »
Seth
The life of Seth is found in Genesis 4:25-26. Seth was the youngest brother of Abel and Cain. From Adam, Seth is the next in line for the family tree of Jesus, Luke 3:38. Cain missed out because he killed his younger brother, Abel. Seth was born to Adam when Adam was 130 years old. Seth lived for a total of 912 years. Seth or Sheth, in Hebrew, could mean: granted. There are a number of other meanings that people suggest. Seth is in the family tree of Jesus, Genesis 4:25-26.
Adam was 130 years old when Eve, his wife, gave birth to Seth. They had already had two sons named Cain and Abel. Read more »
About a 1100 Year gap between the birth of Adam and the birth of Noah
Genesis 5:1-32. There are 1056 years from the point that the Bible starts dating the years of Adam until the birth of Noah. This makes the gap between the birth of Adam and the birth of Noah about 1100 years. There are 10 generations:
1. Adam - name means: Man (is).
2. Seth - name means: Appointed. 3. Enosh - name means: Mortal, frail. 4. Kenan - name means: Sorrow. 5. Mahalalel - name means: Blessed God, praise God
6. Jared - name means: Shall come down
7. Enoch - name means: Commencement, teaching
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Enoch did not die
The life of Enoch is found in Genesis 5:21-24. Enoch is the man who God took to heaven while he was alive. Enoch in Hebrew means: dedicated. He was the man who walked with God. He lived 365 years on the earth before God took him. The prophecy of Enoch is found in Jude 14-16. This Enoch, is not the same Enoch as Cain's son Enoch. Background Reading: 5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 After he fathered Methuselah, Enoch communed with God for 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters. 23 Enoch lived a total of 365 years, Read more »
Noah built an ark with God’s instructions
Genesis 6:8-22. Noah - 3103BC-2153BC - was 500 years old when he started having children. He had three sons named Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He died when he was 950 years old, which was 350 years after the flood.
Noah in Hebrew means: rest.
It took Noah about 100 years to build an ark (boat) to God's specifications. The ark's size was about 154 meters (525 feet) long, 25.5 meters (87 feet) wide and 15 meters (52 feet) high.
The ark builder found favor and honor in God's eyes.
Noah was given the promise of the rainbow, made up of seven colors, Read more »
The Ark, God’s way of saving people from the Flood
Genesis 7:1 - 10:32. Noah built a large boat or Ark at God's instruction because God had asked him to save people and animals from the Flood that was coming.
In Hebrew tebah means: boat or vessel.
The ark's size was about - 140 meters long, 23 meters wide and 13.5 meters high, or 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high – larger than any seagoing vessel until the 20th century.
It was covered with resin on the inside and on the outside.
After the Flood, Noah was given a rainbow, made up of seven colors, as a sign that God would not totally flood the earth again. Read more »
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1-9. Men and women wanted to be like God.
Babel in Hebrew means: Gate of God.
The tower was about 90 meters or 300 feet high.
Babel was a city on the plain of Shinar between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Background Reading: 11:1There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary. 2As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there. Read more »
400 years between Noah and Abraham
Genesis 11:10-32. Approximately four hundred years elapsed from the death of Noah to the call of Abraham.
These are the generations: 1. Noah – name means: Comfort or Rest. 2. Shem – meaning: renown; prosperity. 3. Arphaxad – meaning: A healer; a releaser. 4. Shelah – meaning: Sent Out, Branch or Javelin. 5. Eber – meaning: To pass over, through, take away. 6. Peleg – name means: Division. 7. Reu – name means: Friend. 8. Nahor – name means: Breathing Hard. 9. Terah – name means: Spirit, Spirited or Inspired Read more »
These are the generations: 1. Noah – name means: Comfort or Rest. 2. Shem – meaning: renown; prosperity. 3. Arphaxad – meaning: A healer; a releaser. 4. Shelah – meaning: Sent Out, Branch or Javelin. 5. Eber – meaning: To pass over, through, take away. 6. Peleg – name means: Division. 7. Reu – name means: Friend. 8. Nahor – name means: Breathing Hard. 9. Terah – name means: Spirit, Spirited or Inspired Read more »
Abraham the father of nations
Genesis 12:1-20. Abram was called by God to live in a new land. Later God changed Abram's name to Abraham and he became the father of Israel. Abraham lived for 175 years from around 2165BC-1990BC. His first wife was Sarah, who lived 127 years and died around 2028BC. They had a son in their old age and called him Isaac, which means laughter. Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 when Isaac was born. This son was a fulfillment of God's promise to them. Abraham, the father of the faith and also the friend of God, struggled between the spirit and the flesh. Read more »
Sarah was the wife of Abraham
Genesis 11:29-23:20. Sarah was the wife of Abraham. She was very beautiful even in her old age. Her Hebrew name means Princess, the mother of the nations. She was born in about 2155BC, had a son at 90 in 2065BC, and died at age 127. Her former name was Sarai, which in Hebrew means Jah is prince in Hebrew. Most people know Sarah as the barren wife of Abraham. She was also his half-sister (same father—different mothers). This is how (in Genesis) Abraham could claim to the Egyptians that Sarah was his sister. Read more » or Time line for the book of Genesis.
Lot is rescued by Abraham
Genesis 14:1-16. Lot was the son of Haran, who was Abraham's younger brother. Abraham had to rescue Lot after he was taken prisoner. Lot in Hebrew means: concealed, dark colored. Lot made worldly choices that were not wise from God's viewpoint and settled in a wicked city. When God finally destroyed the city, He sent angels to save Lot and his family. As they fled from the city's destruction, the family was told by the angels not to look back in case they were consumed along with the city. However, Lot's wife did look back and became a pillar of salt. Read more »
Melchizedek was the King of Salem
Genesis 14:17-20. King Melchizedek, whose name means my king is righteous, was the King of Salem and a priest of God.
Salem means peace. Jebusites named the city Jebus. The two names were later joined together
to form Jerusalem, which means Habitation of peace.
Abraham presented Melchizedek with a tithe (a tenth) of all the booty he had gathered after a great battle. By this act, Abraham indicated that he acknowledged God's hand in his victory over his enemies.
Melchizedek's existence shows that there were people other than Abraham and his family who served the true God. Read more »
Hagar, an Egyptian slave given to Abraham by the Pharaoh of Egypt
Genesis 16:1-16 - 17:27. Ishmael was Abraham's son by Hagar, who bore him as a surrogate mother for Abraham's wife, Sarah. This was often the custom in the Mediterranean countries at that time. However, Ishmael was not the child who had been promised by God. This child was to be born some years later, miraculously, by Sarah. God promised Ishmael that, because his father was Abraham, his descendants would become a great nation. Ishmael was 137 years old when he died. Ishmael means: God has hearkened. Read more »
The birth of Isaac Abraham’s son
Genesis 21:1-7. Abraham at the old age of 100 years and Sarah at the old age of 90 years had the son of promise whom they called Isaac. Isaac lived 180 years from around 2065BC-1885BC. He went up Mt Moriah around 2050BC with his father Abraham, who had been commanded by God to sacrifice his son Isaac upon this mountain. However, God did not require this sacrifice in the end. Abraham ordered Isaac to take a wife among the daughters of Laban, his mother's brother. Isaac married Rebekah about 2025BC. They eventually had twin boys, Esau and Jacob. Read more »
Ishmael the son of Hagar and Abraham
Genesis 21:8-21. It was the custom of the time that, if the man’s wife was barren, another woman could have a child for the wife. In a desperate attempt to solve the problem of her barrenness, Sarah offered her handmaiden to Abram to conceive a child. This was in accordance with the written Code of Hammurabi in 1700 BC, the law of Mesopotamia at the time of Abram. The child would be delivered on the lap of the first wife so that the child would, symbolically, be hers. Hagar bore a child for Sarah and Abraham and they named the child Ishmael. Read more »
Rebekah married Isaac
Genesis 24:1-67. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel and became the wife of Isaac, who was
the son of Abraham. She became the mother of twins, Esau and Jacob.
The name of Rebekah in Hebrew means: flattering.
Laban was Rebekah's brother and was also the father of Rachel and Leah.
Rebekah had come to get water from the well for the family's needs. This was where she met the servant of Abraham.
Background Reading: 62 Later on, as Isaac was returning one evening from Beer-lahai-roi (he had been living in the Negev), Read more »
Background Reading: 62 Later on, as Isaac was returning one evening from Beer-lahai-roi (he had been living in the Negev), Read more »
Esau the son that Isaac loved
Genesis 25:20-34. The birth of Esau, who was the wayward older twin brother of Jacob. Esau was a hunter, who sold his birthright as the older son to his younger brother for food. Esau was Isaac's favorite son and a hunter of game. Born 2005BC, died after his twin brother, Jacob who died in 1858BC.
Background Reading: 25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, Read more »
Background Reading: 25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, Read more »
The birth of Jacob the son of Isaac
Genesis 25:20-26. Isaac married Rebekah in 2025BC. They eventually, twenty years, later had twin boys, Esau and Jacob. Jacob was the younger twin of Esau. From Jacob, whose name was later changed by God to Israel, and from his sons came the twelve tribes of Israel. Jacob was Rebekah's favorite son whereas Esau was Isaac's favorite son. Start of family problems right here. Isaac ordered Jacob, the younger twin of Esau, to take a wife among the daughters of Laban, his mother's brother. Remember Esau the older twin had gone against his father's wishes in marrying a Canaanite girl. Read more »
King Abimelech a local king and Isaac
Genesis 26:1-33. There are two views: one, Abimelech was the name of a person; the other, Abimelech was a title. You choose which one is correct for you. The first view: Person: Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, lived in the city of Gerar and he reigned as king for a long time. Abimelech was a righteous king. Isaac resided as a foreigner in the Philistine territory and around the city of Gerar for a long time and would have had to meet King Abimelech many times.
Abimelech in Hebrew means: Father of the King. Read more »
Questions and Answers 1-11
1. What is the meaning of the word Genesis?
2. How many days did it take God to create the earth?
3. What was the name of the first man God created?
4. What was the name of the first woman God created?
5. What would have happened if Adam had eaten from the Tree of Life?
6. Who was the first recorded human murderer in God’s creation?
7. What was the name of the man that who was murdered?
8. The name of the man who is next after Adam in the family tree of Jesus?
9. What is Enoch famous for?
10. The number of years gap between Adam and Noah?
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Questions and Answers 12-26
12. Why was the Ark built?
13. How high was the tower of Babel?
14. What was the approximate length in years of the gap between Noah and
Abraham?
15. How old did Abraham live for?
16. How old did Sarah live for?
17. What were Lot and family told not to do?
18. Melchizedek was both a king and a what?
19. Who was the father of Ishmael?
20. Who was the second of seven persons named before their birth?
21. Who did Hagar run away from?
22. Who did Rebekah marry?
23. The twin brother of Esau was?
24. God later changed the name of Jacob to?
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Genesis Part Two » »
Genesis Part Two continues from Genesis Part One. Starting with Jacob and his family naming the twelve tribes of Israel. Towards the end the colorful story about the life of Joseph and how he saves his mother and father and brothers. Then ending with the death of Jacob and Joseph. Read more » » Which will then lead on to the next section, the Life of Moses.
To continue the book of Genesis. - Genesis Part Two » »
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Time Line for Genesis part one »
This timeline created for bibleview.org is in 15 sections. Each section covers a different part of the timeline from undated past to the year 2015.
Undated Past » until 1800BC Creation to the death of Joseph. -including the book of Genesis [Approximately 7 A4 pages of notes.]
Undated past - until 1800BC - Creation to the death of Joseph.
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Resources – The book of Genesis
BOOKS: A Survey of the Old Testament 3rd Edition by Andrew E Hill and John H Walton Publisher Zonervan. The Sequence of Events of the Old Testament - Shlma Eliezer Pub MOD Israel, Publishing House Distributed By the “Jerusalem Post” ISBN -965-05 797? 1984. The Macmillan Bible Atlas - Yohanan Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah. The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings - Dr. Edwin Thiele Pater Noster press 1951. Great Events of The Bible Times - James Harper Edition Marshall Editions LTD 1987 ISBN 0-297-79068-4.
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