1. Old Testament
The Torah

2. Hebrew: “Law, Instruction”
Torah
Hebrew: “Law, Instruction”
Pentateuch
Greek: “Five-Part Book”

3. Relates the wilderness wanderings
Genesis
Traces the origins of God’s people from creation to Egypt
Exodus
Relates God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt and establishing His covenant
Leviticus
Sets forth the Laws of worship
Numbers
Relates the wilderness wanderings
Deuteronomy
Gives the Law to a new generation with special emphasis to those entering the land

4. Genesis
The Book of Beginnings

5. Events Predominant Creation Fall Flood Tower of Babel
Genesis 1-11
Genesis 12-50
Events Predominant
Creation
Fall
Flood
Tower of Babel
People Predominant
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Joseph
Race as a whole
Family of Abraham
Over 2000 years
250 years

6. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The “who” of creation.
The work of creation.
The “what” of creation.

7. Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And the earth was unformed and unfilled, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

8. Unformed Unfilled Day 1: Light Day 4: Light-bearers (sun, moon, stars)
Day 2: Water & sky divided
Day 5: Fish & birds to fill water & sky
Day 3: Dry land & vegetation
Day 6: Land animals & man
Day 7: Sabbath Rest

9. Why are there two separate accounts of creation?

10. The heavens and the earth are created in six days.
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
The heavens and the earth are created in six days.
Creation of the man and woman (no time element mentioned).
Man in his cosmic setting
Man as central to God’s purpose
Panorama of creation as a whole
Detailed focus on one aspect of creation
Centers on God creating the heavens and the earth
Centers on man as the crowning act of God’s creation

11. Creation complete: Heavens & earth created; God finished His work (1-3)
Man created: Formed from dust (4-9)
Trees & Rivers in garden given names (9-14)

13. Creation complete: Heavens & earth created; God finished His work (1-3)
Man created: Formed from dust (4-9)
Trees & Rivers in garden given names (9-14)
Man assigned task of guarding & keeping the garden (15)
Forbidden fruit (16-17)

14. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.“ (Genesis 2:16-17)

15. Creation complete: Heavens & earth created; God finished His work (1-3)
Man created: Formed from dust (4-9)
Trees & Rivers in garden given names (9-14)
Man assigned task of guarding & keeping the garden (15)
Forbidden fruit (16-17)
Man in need of a helper: not good to be alone (18)
Animals in garden are given names (19-20)
Woman created: Formed from rib (21-24)
Creation complete: Man & woman naked & unashamed in presence of God (25)

16. 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 desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:6)

17. What are the results from their actions of taking and eating the forbidden fruit?

18. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. (Genesis 3:15)

19. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain & Abel
How is the Cain & Abel narrative related to the larger story of Genesis?

20. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain
Abel
And Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel; for Cain killed him." (Genesis 4:25).
Lamech
Literally,
“another SEED”

21. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Cain
Abel & Seth
Enoch
Lamech
Noah
Ham
Shem
Canaan
Abraham

22. Genesis 5 Genesis 11 Adam Noah Noah Terah Ten Generations
Three sons
Three sons

23. Genesis 11:1-2
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. 2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

24. Shinar
● Babel

25. Genesis 11:3-4
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

28. Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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 Babel

29. lb,B' ll;B' Genesis 11:9  Babel  Balal
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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 Babel
ll;B'
 Balal

30. Genesis 11:29-30
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31. Genesis 12:1-2 "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives
1 Now the LORD said to Abram,
"Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's house,
To the land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;

32. Genesis 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

33. Haran ● ● Ur And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew…
…and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan. (Genesis 12:5).
● Ur

34. Genesis 12:7 Literally, “to your Seed”
And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
Literally,
“to your Seed”

35. Genesis 12:7 Lot, the Nephew of Abram Eliezer of Damascus
And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
Lot, the Nephew of Abram
Eliezer of Damascus
Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who shall come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.“ (Genesis 15:4).

36. Genesis 15 & The Covenant Ceremony
So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
10 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds. (Genesis 15:9-10).

37. Genesis 15 & The Covenant Ceremony
And it came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces.
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram… (Genesis 15:17-18).

38. Quest for a Son Lot, the Nephew of Abram Eliezer of Damascus Ishmael
Isaac – “Laughter”

39. Abram called to Faith: Promise of a Seed (12:1-9)
Sojourn in Egypt & Denial of Sarai (12:10-20)
Lot separates from Abram (13)
War on Sodom; Rescue of Lot by Abram (14)
Covenant Ceremony; Animal sacrifice (15)
Ishmael born (16)
Covenant Sign; Circumcision (17)
Destruction of Sodom; Rescue of Lot by Angels (18-19)
Sojourn in Gerar & Denial of Sarah (20)
Ishmael separates from Abram (21)
Abraham’s Faith Tested: Blessing of the Seed (22)

40. Abraham’s Test
And Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” (Genesis 22:14).

41. Seed of the Serpent
Seed of the Woman
Abraham
Ishmael
Isaac
Esau
Jacob
Whose Seed
are You?

42. The Jacob Narrative His name: “Heel-grabber” The Birthright.
The Blessing.
Jacob’s Ladder.
Sojourn in Haran.

43.  Haran

44. The Jacob Narrative His name: “Heel-grabber” The Birthright.
The Blessing.
Jacob’s Ladder.
Sojourn in Haran.
The Esau Incident

47. The Joseph Story A problem of favoritism
Deception with garments and a goat
Departure from the land
Egypt in the days of Joseph
Joseph’s Imprisonment
Joseph’s Exaltation
Israel’s Entrance into Egypt

48. A Pattern of Israel’s Purpose
Altars & Worship
A Sense of Purpose
Unity
Racial & Religious Purity