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==Name==

==Name==

The [[Hebrews]] had called the First Book of Moses by the name of ''bereisheet'' or ''be'reshith'', meaning "in the begining", based on the three words which start Genesis.  The [[Septuagint]], the ancient Greek-language version of the Old Testament, rendered this title under the name ''he biblos geneseos'', from which came the Greek word ''genesis'', meaning "origin".  (Unger, pg. 396)

The [[Hebrews]] had called the First Book of Moses by the name of ''bereisheet'' or ''be'reshith'', meaning "in the beginning", based on the three words which start Genesis.  The [[Septuagint]], the ancient Greek-language version of the Old Testament, rendered this title under the name ''he biblos geneseos'', from which came the Greek word ''genesis'', meaning "origin".  (Unger, pg. 396)

==Overview==

==Overview==

===the Creation===

===the Creation===

''In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth''.  This is one of the most famous statments in the Bible, and it opens up Genesis to a view of the world as being formless and void, just before God acted out His creation.  Genesis 1:1 through 2:3 involved the first seven days in history:

''In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth''.  This is one of the most famous statements in the Bible, and it opens up Genesis to a view of the world as being formless and void, just before God acted out His creation.  Genesis 1:1 through 2:3 involved the first seven days in history:

*The first day, the creation of light (Gen. 1:2 through 1:5).

*The first day, the creation of light (Gen. 1:2 through 1:5).

*The second day, the creation of the firmament of the waters (Gen. 1:6 through 1:8).

*The second day, the creation of the firmament of the waters (Gen. 1:6 through 1:8).

===the Flood===

===the Flood===

The wickedness of mankind is so great the God repents of His creation and decides to destory it all through a flood.  Only Noah is righteous before God, and He instruct Noah to build an ark to carry himself, his family, and pairs of every creature on earth and in the air.  God then destroys the earth, the ark riding the waves until the waters abate and it comes to rest at the mountains of Ararat.  God makes a promise never to destroy the earth by flood again, and shows Noah the sign of that covenant, a rainbow.

The wickedness of mankind is so great the God repents of His creation and decides to destroy it all through a flood.  Only Noah is righteous before God, and He instruct Noah to build an ark to carry himself, his family, and pairs of every creature on earth and in the air.  God then destroys the earth, the ark riding the waves until the waters abate and it comes to rest at the mountains of Ararat.  God makes a promise never to destroy the earth by flood again, and shows Noah the sign of that covenant, a rainbow.

Noah is also the first planter of a vineyard, and during a drunken sleep one of his sons (Ham) sees him naked.  Noah awakes with the knowledge as to what he had done, and places a curse upon his son Canaan, declaring that Canaan and his descendents would be slaves to the his brothers Shem and Japheth.  All three sons would have their names and their descendants listed on the Table of Nations, which ends Noah's story.

Noah is also the first planter of a vineyard, and during a drunken sleep one of his sons (Ham) sees him naked.  Noah awakes with the knowledge as to what he had done, and places a curse upon his son Canaan, declaring that Canaan and his descendants would be slaves to the his brothers Shem and Japheth.  All three sons would have their names and their descendants listed on the Table of Nations, which ends Noah's story.

===Abraham===

===Abraham===

God puts Abraham to the test by demanding the sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham obeys God during his ultimate test: the sacrifice of his beloved son Issac; just as he is about to thrust the knife God restrains him, and promises descendants beyond numbering.  Abraham dies later, ‘’full of years”, and is laid to rest in the Tomb of Machpelah in Hebron, which he had purchased shortly before as a place of rest for Sarah.

God puts Abraham to the test by demanding the sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham obeys God during his ultimate test: the sacrifice of his beloved son Issac; just as he is about to thrust the knife God restrains him, and promises descendants beyond numbering.  Abraham dies later, ‘’full of years”, and is laid to rest in the Tomb of Machpelah in Hebron, which he had purchased shortly before as a place of rest for Sarah.

===Issac and Jacob===

===Isaac and Jacob===

Isaac had prayed to God that He would deliver a child through Rebekah’s barren womb.  He does, and Rebekah gives birth to the twins Esau and Jacob; but prior to the birth God had predicted division between the two, with the elder serving the younger.  Esau, the elder, had despised his own birthright and sold it for a bowl of red porridge, allowing Jacob to enter his father’s tent and deceitfully take the blessing intended for Esau.  He flees to Haran, the home of his uncle Laban.  Along the way he has the dream of the ladder to Heaven, where God tells him of prosperity for himself and his descendants; he names the spot Bethel in commemoration.

Isaac had prayed to God that He would deliver a child through Rebekah’s barren womb.  He does, and Rebekah gives birth to the twins Esau and Jacob; but prior to the birth God had predicted division between the two, with the elder serving the younger.  Esau, the elder, had despised his own birthright and sold it for a bowl of red porridge, allowing Jacob to enter his father’s tent and deceitfully take the blessing intended for Esau.  He flees to Haran, the home of his uncle Laban.  Along the way he has the dream of the ladder to Heaven, where God tells him of prosperity for himself and his descendants; he names the spot Bethel in commemoration.