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''For the rock band Genesis, please see [[Genesis (band)]]''

''For the rock band Genesis, please see [[Genesis (band)]]''

'''Genesis''', the 'book of beginnings', and the first book of both the Jewish [[Torah]] and the [[Bible]], recounts the beginning of the universe, living things including [[homo sapiens|mankind]], and mankind's social and 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]].

'''Genesis''', the 'book of beginnings', and the first book of both the Jewish [[Torah]] and the [[Bible]], recounts the beginning of the [[universe]], living things including [[homo sapiens|mankind]], and mankind's social and 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]].

==Name==

==Name==

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 current title of ''Genesis'', meaning "origin".<ref>Unger, 1966, p.396</ref>

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 current title of ''Genesis'', meaning "origin".<ref>Unger, 1966, p.396</ref>

==Overview==

==Overview==