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''For the rock band Genesis, please see [[Genesis (band)]]''
 
''For the rock band Genesis, please see [[Genesis (band)]]''
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'''Genesis''' [Hebrew: '''בראשית'''] ([[Greek]]: "birth", "origin"), the 'book of beginnings', and the first book of both the [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[Torah]] and the [[Bible]], recounts the beginning of the [[universe]], living things including [[homo sapiens|mankind]], and mankind's [[Society|social]] and [[Culture|cultural]] formations.  It stands as the introduction of the entire body of the Bible, of the creation of the original nation of [[Israel]], and of the earliest promises of the coming [[Jesus Christ|Redeemer]].
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'''Genesis''' [Hebrew: '''בראשית'''] ([[Greek]]: "birth", "origin"), the 'book of beginnings', and the first book of both the [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[Torah]] and the [[Bible]], recounts the beginning of the [[universe]], living things including [[homo sapiens|mankind]], and mankind's [[Society|social]] and [[Culture|cultural]] formations.  It stands as the introduction of the entire body of the Bible, of the creation of the original nation of [[Israel]], and of the earliest promises of the coming [[Jesus Christ|Redeemer]].  Because of the word's meaning and this long association, in modern parlance it has also come to be a term describing the creation of something new.
    
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