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==Overview==

==Overview==

The fifty chapters of the book of Genesis can be divided into two parts: the early, primeval history of man from the [[Creation]] to the fall of the [[Tower of Babel]], and the [[Patriarchal History of Israel]] from [[Abraham]] and his son [[Issac]], grandson [[Jacob]], and Jacob's sons, primarily [[Joseph]], although there is a continuous genealogy connecting both parts.

The fifty chapters of the book of Genesis can be divided into two parts: the early, primeval history of man from the [[Creation]] to the fall of the [[Tower of Babel]], and the [[Patriarchs|Patriarchal History of Israel]] from [[Abraham]] and his son [[Isaac]], grandson [[Jacob]], and Jacob's sons, primarily [[Joseph]], although there is a continuous genealogy connecting both parts.

===The Creation===

===The Creation===

Jacob had two wives, [[Leah]] and [[Rachel]], and two [[concubine]]s, [[Zilpah]] (Leah's handmaid), and [[Bilhah]] (Rachel's handmaid).  Together they bore Jacob twelve sons:

Jacob had two wives, [[Leah]] and [[Rachel]], and two [[concubine]]s, [[Zilpah]] (Leah's handmaid), and [[Bilhah]] (Rachel's handmaid).  Together they bore Jacob twelve sons:

*From Leah: [[Reuben]], [[Simeon]], [[Levi]], [[Judah]], [[Issachar]], [[Zebulan]].

*From Leah: [[Reuben]], [[Simeon]], [[Levi]], [[Judah]], [[Issachar]], [[Zebulun]].

*From Rachel: [[Joseph]], [[Benjamin]].

*From Rachel: [[Joseph]], [[Benjamin]].

*From Zilpah: [[Gad]], [[Asser]].

*From Zilpah: [[Gad]], [[Asher]].

*From Bilhah: [[Dan]], [[Naphtali]].

*From Bilhah: [[Dan]], [[Naphtali]].