Bible Discussion Questions for Genesis

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• Genesis, Chapter 1: Original creation and the renovating of earth for habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life.
• Genesis, Chapter 2: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Gen. 1:27 explained. The Edenic covenant.
• Genesis, Chapter 3: Temptation of Eve and entrance of sin into the race. God's cove nant with fallen man and the expulsion from Eden.
• Genesis, Chapter 4: First sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. Murder of Abel. First civilization. Birth of Seth.
• Genesis, Chapter 5: Generations from Adam to Noah.
• Genesis, Chapter 6: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of men.
• Genesis, Chapter 7: The flood comes. Noah and family preserved.
• Genesis, Chapter 8: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar.
• Genesis, Chapter 9: Noamic covenant. Noah's shame and Ham's sin.
• Genesis, Chapter 10: Establishing of the nations.
• Genesis, Chapter 11: Failure under Noamic covenant. Tower of Babel. Scattering of the people. Ancestry of Abram.
• Genesis, Chapter 12: Call of Abram. His worship and testing. The error in Egypt.
• Genesis, Chapter 13: Abram's return to the land and the altar. Separation from Lot. Lots backsliding and choice of the land.
• Genesis, Chapter 14: Abram delivers Lot. Abram's refusal to compromise with the King of Sodom.
• Genesis, Chapter 15: Abrahamic covenant confirmed and spiritual seed promised.
• Genesis, Chapter 16: Birth of Ishmael.
• Genesis, Chapter 17: The revelation of God. Abram's name changed. Covenant confirmed. Circumcision established. Promise of Isaac.
• Genesis, Chapter 18: Abraham, the friend of God. Promise of the seed renewed. The plea of Sodom.
• Genesis, Chapter 19: Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's backsliding and escape.
• Genesis, Chapter 20: Abraham's lapse at Gerar. Lying to Abimelech about his wife.
• Genesis, Chapter 21: Birth of Isaac. Bondwoman and her son cast out. Abraham at Beersheba.
• Genesis, Chapter 22: Offering of Isaac. Abrahamic covenant again confirmed.
• Genesis, Chapter 23: Death of Sarah. Burial in cave of Machpelah.
• Genesis, Chapter 24: Bride of Isaac secured by Abraham's servant.
• Genesis, Chapter 25: Abraham weds Keturah. Isaac becomes Abraham's heir. Death of Abraham. Generations of Ishmael and Isaac. Birth of Esau and Jacob and the sale of the birthright.
• Genesis, Chapter 26: Covenant confirmed to Isaac. Isaac's lapse at Gerar, Isaac as a well digger.
• Genesis, Chapter 27: Fraudulent methods of Jacob in getting Isaac's blessing. Remorse of Esau.
• Genesis, Chapter 28: Jacob at Bethel and the Abrahamic covenant confirmed to him in a dream.
• Genesis, Chapter 29: Jacob and Laban, two bargain makers, meet.
• Genesis, Chapter 30: Jacob's posterity in Padan-aram. Another bargain between Jacob and Laban.
• Genesis, Chapter 31: Jacob's resolution to return. Laban's hot pursuit; their quarrel and final agreement.
• Genesis, Chapter 32: Jacob becomes Israel. Preparation for meeting Esau. Wrestling against the angel.
• Genesis, Chapter 33: Jacob meets Esau. Settles in Canaan.
• Genesis, Chapter 34: Harvest of evil years comes on Jacob and family. Dinah defiled and the bloody revenge.
• Genesis, Chapter 35: Jacob's return to Bethel and renewed communion. Death of Rachael. Birth of Benjamin. Death of Isaac.
• Genesis, Chapter 36: Generations of Esau and their settlements.
• Genesis, Chapter 37: Generations of Joseph. Joseph hated and rejected by his brothers. Cast into pit. Carried away by Gentiles.
• Genesis, Chapter 38: Shame of Judah and his sons.
• Genesis, Chapter 39: Joseph tested in Egypt in the house of Potiphar.
• Genesis, Chapter 40: Joseph in prlison in Egypt. Interprets dreams.
• Genesis, Chapter 41: Pharaoh's dream. Joseph's exaltation in Egypt and his Gentile bride.
• Genesis, Chapter 42: Joseph preserves his brethren from the famine.
• Genesis, Chapter 43: Second visit of Joseph's brethren to Egypt in their necessity.
• Genesis, Chapter 44: Joseph's brethren further tested. Arrest on charge of taking a cup.
• Genesis, Chapter 45: Joseph reveals himself to his brethren whom he blessed and sends back to Egypt.
• Genesis, Chapter 46: Jacob's Journey to Egypt and meeting with Joseph.
• Genesis, Chapter 47: Jacob and descendants exalted in Goshen.
• Genesis, Chapter 48: Jacob on his death bed blesses Joseph's sons.
• Genesis, Chapter 49: Jacob's dying blessing, prophetic of the tribes of Israel.
• Genesis, Chapter 50: Jacob's burial. Joseph's death.