The story of the first human beings in the Garden of Eden and the Temptation
Cain and Abel
The Flood
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 12-50: The History and the Patriarchs
The Patriarchs are the founders of the Nation of Israel (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)
Jacob's Twelve Children, among which is Joseph
Genesis 1-3: Creation, Adam and Eve
Two accounts of Creation
Genesis 1: The Priestly Account (ca. 5th Century BC)
Genesis 2: The Yahwistic Account (represents the oldest account ca. 8th Century BC)
Differences:
Genesis 1, God is a powerful King in Heaven ordering things to come into creation. He created ex nihilo (out of nothing) and does it by the power of His Word. He doesn't move from heaven or descend on earth, but He commands and everything appears.
Genesis 2, God takes dust from the ground, makes man, breathes to make him a living being.
In Genesis 1, God is transcendent (transcends the material universe) and in Genesis 2, God is imminent (working inside the material universe)
In Genesis 1, God is a deliberator ("Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness") - according to Jewish interpretation, God is talking to His angels. In Genesis 2, God is like a potter Who shapes humanity from the ground. He is not deliberating, He is doing.
Each account gives us something about God and they complement each other
The Creation of Humanity in Three Steps
God took dust out of the ground and created humanity (Adam - not specifically a man or a woman)
God takes this humanity and places it in the Garden of Eden (Garden of Delight)
God fashions Eve (woman) and brings her to the humanity (Adam) - This is a woman, taken from a man. And there is a unity between them - marriage.
Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man
God planted many trees including the Tree of Life, and in the middle of the garden, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (knowing everything) and He commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
They were not tempted to eat from the Tree of Life (immortality and living forever) but rather in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (power and control - even at the expense of transgressing the commandment of God)
God takes them out of the garden so that they do not eat from the Tree of Life and live forever in this depravity. He gives them an opportunity to have a limited number of years (mortality)
Death has entered into the world
Genesis 4:1-16: Cain and Abel
God looks favorably at the offering of Abel, but not that of Cain. Cain becomes angry and God tells him "if you did something good, be happy" but Cain goes and kills his brother
Genesis 12: Call of Abraham
Abraham living in Ur of Chaldea and with his family is journeying north toward Syria and establish themselves in the region of Haran
God calls Abraham to follow Him in a different country; Abraham left everything and followed God
Genesis 18: The Three Heavenly Visitors
Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Genesis 28: Jacob's Dream at Bethel
Genesis 37; 39: Joseph and His Brothers; Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
