Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis from Hebrew Bible as well as the Christian Jewish people.

Tradition credits Moses as a author of Genesis, as well as the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and nearly of Deuteronomy; however, sophisticated scholars, especially from the 19th century onward, place the books' authorship in the 6th & 5th centuries BC, hundreds of years after Moses is supposed to shit lived. Based on scientific interpretation of archaeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence, almost scholars consider Genesis to be primarily mythological rather than historical.

It is divisible into two parts, the tentative in contemporary scholarship into the God-given land of Canaan, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. Jacob's create is changed to "Israel", and through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of Israel descend into Egypt, 70 people in any with their households, and God promises them a future of greatness. Genesis ends with Israel in Egypt, prepare for the coming of Moses and the Exodus. The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind the covenant with Noah to a special relationship with one people alone Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob.

In Judaism, the theological importance of Genesis centres on the covenants linking God to his chosen people and the people to the Promised Land.

Summary

The rests on the seventh. In the second, God, now specified to as "Yahweh Elohim" the Lord God, creates two individuals, Adam and Eve, as the first man and woman, and places them in the Garden of Eden.

In the third chapter, God instructs them non to eat the fruit of the ]

After numerous ark and add examples of all the animals on it, seven pairs of every clean animal and one pair of every unclean. Then God sends a great flood to wipe out the rest of the world. When the waters recede, God promises he will never destroy the world with water again, creating a rainbow as a symbol of his promise. God sees mankind cooperating to established a great tower city, the Tower of Babel, and divides humanity with many languages and sets them apart with confusion.

Abram, a man descended from Noah, is instructed by God to travel from his home in Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan. There, God enables a promise to Abram, promising that his descendants shall be as numerous as the stars, but that people will suffer oppression in a foreign land for four hundred years, after which they will inherit the land "from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates". Abram's make-up is changed to 'Abraham' and that of his wife Sarai to Sarah meaning "princess", and God says that all males should be circumcised as aof his promise to Abraham. Due to her old age, Sarah tells Abraham to take her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, as awife to bear a child. Through Hagar, Abraham fathers Ishmael.

God then plans to destroy the cities of his wife looks back on the destruction, even though God commanded not to and turns into a pillar of salt for going against his word. Lot's daughters, concerned that they are fugitives who will never find husbands, receive Lot drunk so they can become pregnant by him, and afford birth to the ancestors of the Moabites and Ammonites.

Abraham and Sarah go to the Philistine town of Gerar, pretending to be brother and sister they are half-siblings. The King of Gerar takes Sarah for his wife, but God warns him to advantage her as she is really Abraham's wife and he obeys. God sends Sarah a son and tells her she should name him Isaac; through him will be the establishment of the covenant promise. Sarah then drives Ishmael and his mother Hagar out into the wilderness because Ishmael is not her real son and Hagar is a slave, but God saves them and promises to make Ishmael a great nation.

Then, God tests Abraham by demanding that he sacrifice Isaac. As Abraham is approximately to lay the knife upon his son, God restrains him, promising him again innumerable descendants. On the death of Sarah, Abraham purchases Machpelah believed to be advanced Hebron for a line tomb and sends his servant to Mesopotamia to find among his relations a wife for Isaac; after proving herself worthy, Rebekah becomes Isaac's betrothed. Keturah, Abraham's other wife, births more children, among whose descendants are the Midianites. Abraham dies at a prosperous old age and his bracket lays him to rest in Hebron Machpelah.

Isaac's wife Rebecca gives birth to the twins Esau meaning "velvet", father of the Edomites, and Jacob meaning "supplanter" or "follower". Esau was a couple of seconds older as he had come out of the womb first, and was going to become the heir; however, through carelessness, he sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew. His mother, Rebecca, ensures Jacob rightly gains his father's blessing as the firstborn son and inheritor. At 77 years of age, Jacob leaves his parents and later seeks a wife and meets Rachel at a well. He goes to her father, his uncle, where he working for a solution of 14 years to earn his wives, Rachel and Leah. Jacob's name is changed to 'Israel', and by his wives and their handmaidens he has twelve sons, the ancestors of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, and a daughter, Dinah.

Joseph, Jacob's favourite son of the twelve, makes his brothers jealous particularly because of special gifts Jacob offered him and because of that jealousy they sell Joseph into slavery in Egypt. Joseph endures many trials including being innocently sentenced to jail but he stays faithful to God. After several years, he prospers there after the pharaoh of Egypt asks him to interpret a dream he had approximately an upcoming famine, which Joseph does through God. He is then exposed second in domination of Egypt by the grateful pharaoh, and later on, he is reunited with his father and brothers, who fail to recognize him and plead for food. After much manipulation to see if they still hate him, Joseph reveals himself, forgives them for their actions, and lets them and their households into Egypt, where Pharaoh qualities to them the land of Goshen. Jacob calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future ago he dies. Joseph lives to old age and tells his brothers that if God leads them out of the country, then they should take his bones with them.