Commentary > Genesis

Scripture	Topic
Genesis 1:1-2:4	Creation; Earth's six-day renovation; The Sabbath
Genesis 2:4-25	Man and woman in the Garden of Eden
Genesis 3	Taking from the forbidden tree
Genesis 4	Cain and Abel
Genesis 5	Genealogy of Adam
Genesis 6	The antediluvian world; God calls Noah
Genesis 7	The Flood begins
Genesis 8	The Flood ends
Genesis 9	Noachian Covenant; The cursing of Canaan
Genesis 10	Table of nations descended from Noah
Genesis 11	The tower of Babel; Genealogy of Shem
Genesis 12	Call of Abram (Abraham); Abram journeys to Canaan and Egypt
Genesis 13	Abram and Lot separate
Genesis 14	Abram rescues Lot and tithes to Melchizedek
Genesis 15	Abram accounted righteous; Future slavery and deliverance
Genesis 16	Hagar and Ishmael
Genesis 17	Circumcision and future greatness
Genesis 18	Visit of God and angels; Abraham reasons with God
Genesis 19	Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 20	Abraham's dealing with Abimelech
Genesis 21	Birth of Isaac; Hagar and Ishmael leave; Covenant with Abimelech
Genesis 22	The offering of Isaac; Family of Nahor
Genesis 23	The death of Sarah
Genesis 24	A wife for Isaac
Genesis 25	Abraham and Keturah; Death of Abraham; Families of Ishmael and Isaac; Esau sells his birthright
Genesis 26	Isaac and the Philistines
Genesis 27:1-28:5	Jacob's deception to get blessing; Esau's future; Jacob flees Esau
Genesis 28:6-22	Esau marries an Ishmaelitess; Jacob's vision and vow at Bethel
Genesis 29:1-30:24	Jacob marries Leah and Rachel; Fathers children
Genesis 30:25-43	Jacob's deal with Laban concerning the flocks
Genesis 31	Jacob departs from Laban
Genesis 32	Esau coming to meet Jacob; Wrestling with God
Genesis 33	Meeting of Jacob and Esau
Genesis 34	The violation of Dinah; Shechemites slaughtered
Genesis 35:1-26	Return to Bethel; Death of Rachel; Sin of Reuben
Genesis 35:27-36:43	Death of Isaac; Family of Esau
Genesis 37	Joseph's dreams; Sold into slavery by his brothers
Genesis 38	Judah and Tamar
Genesis 39	Joseph a slave in Potiphar's house
Genesis 40	Joseph in prison, interprets dreams
Genesis 41	Pharaoh's dreams; Joseph's rise to power
Genesis 42	Joseph's brothers come to Egypt and return home
Genesis 43	Joseph's brothers come back with Benjamin
Genesis 44	Joseph's cup
Genesis 45	Joseph reveals himself
Genesis 46-47	Jacob comes to Egypt; Joseph's handling of the famine
Genesis 48	Blessings upon Ephraim and Manasseh
Genesis 49:29-50:26	Deaths of Jacob and Joseph
Genesis 49:1-28	Jacob prophesies of Israel in the last days