OVERVIEW

NOTE: Look for PATTERNS in everything that you see … God in revealing the story of creation and the history of the Jewish people through Abraham, but He is also revealing HIMSELF … in patterns of behavior and action that He will continue to use and walk in throughout the history of man… Genesis is the background every Israelite needed in order to understand their national history recorded in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five books go together. It can be subdivided many ways… Section 1: chs. 1–11, how the physical and social worlds came to be Section 2: chs. 12–36, how God selected Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to initiate His chosen people Section 3: chs. 37–50, how God purified the sons of Jacob to serve as patriarchs for the tribes of the nation Israe