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cChart from recommended resource Jensen's Survey of the OT - used by permission
| Summary Chart of The Book of Genesis |
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| Focus | Foundation Events (Four Events) (Events Predominant) |
Foundation People (Four People) (People Predominant) |
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| Divisions | Creation (Ge 1-2) |
Fall (Ge 3-5) |
Flood (Ge 6-9) |
Nations (Ge 10-12) |
Abraham's Faith (Ge 12-24) |
Isaac's Family (Ge 25-26) |
Jacob's Conflicts (Ge 27-36) |
Joseph's Calamity (Ge 37-50) |
| Topics | Beginning of the Human Race (Race As A Whole) |
Beginning of the Hebrew Race (Family of Abraham) |
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| Faithfulness of Mankind (Noah) |
Faithfulness of One Man's Family (Abraham) |
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| Historical | Biographical | |||||||
| Place | Eastward From Eden to Ur |
Westward From Canaan to Egypt |
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| Time | ~2000+ Years (20% of Genesis) (~4004-2090BC) |
About 300 Years 193 Yr in Canaan, 93 Yr in Egypt (80% of Genesis) (2090-1804BC) |
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| Primeval History of Humanity |
Patriarchal History of Israel |
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| Author | Moses | |||||||
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BEGINNINGS
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Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
- blessed - Ge 9:7 1:22,28 2:3 8:17 24:60 Ps 112:1 128:3,4 Isa 51:2
- Be - Ge 9:7,19 1:28 8:17 10:32
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth
Genesis 9:2 "The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
- Ge 1:28 2:19 35:5 Lev 26:6,22 Job 5:22,23 Ps 8:4-8 104:20-23 Eze 34:25 Ho 2:18 Jas 3:7
The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
Genesis 9:3 "Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
- Every - Lev 11:1-47 22:8 De 12:15 14:3-21 Ac 10:12-15 1Ti 4:3-5
- even - Ge 1:29,30 Ps 104:14,15 Ro 14:3,14,17,20 1Co 10:23,25,26,31 Col 2:16,21,22 1Ti 4:3,4
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant
Genesis 9:4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
- the life - Lev 3:17 7:26 17:10-14 19:26 De 12:16,23 14:21 15:23 1Sa 14:34 Ac 15:20,25,29 1Ti 4:4
Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Genesis 9:5 "Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man.
- every - Ex 21:12,28,29
- and at - Ge 4:9,10 Lev 19:16 Nu 35:31-33 De 21:1-9 Ps 9:12 Mt 23:35
- brother - Ac 17:26
Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man.
Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.
- by - Ex 21:12-14 22:2,3 Lev 17:4 24:17 Nu 35:25 1Ki 2:5,6,28-34 Mt 26:52 Ro 13:4 Rev 13:10
- in - Ge 1:26,27 5:1 Ps 51:4 Jas 3:9
Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man
Genesis 9:7 "As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
- Ge 9:1,19 1:28 8:17
As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.
Genesis 9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:9 "Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
- Ge 9:11,17 6:18 17:7,8 22:17 Isa 54:9,10 Jer 31:35,36 33:20 Ro 1:3
Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you
Genesis 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
- Ge 9:15,16 8:1 Job 38:1-41 41:1-34 Ps 36:5,6 145:9 Jon 4:11
and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth
Genesis 9:11 "I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."
- And I - Ge 8:21,22 Isa 54:9
- neither shall all - Ge 7:21-23 8:21,22 2Pe 3:7,11
I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth
Genesis 9:12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
- Ge 17:11 Ex 12:13 13:16 Jos 2:12 Mt 26:26-28 1Co 11:23-25
God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations
Genesis 9:13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
- Eze 1:28 Rev 4:3 10:1
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth
Genesis 9:14 "It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
Genesis 9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- remember - Ex 28:12 Lev 26:42-45 De 7:9 1Ki 8:23 Ne 9:32 Ps 106:45 Jer 14:21 Eze 16:60 Lu 1:72
- the waters - Isa 54:8-10
and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh
Genesis 9:16 "When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- everlasting - Ge 9:9-11 8:21,22 17:13,19 2Sa 23:5 Ps 89:3,4 Isa 54:8-10 55:3 Jer 32:40 Heb 13:20
When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth
Genesis 9:17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."
Genesis 9:18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
- Shem - Ge 9:23 10:1 1Ch 1:4
- Ham - Ge 10:1,6
- Canaan - Heb. Chenaan
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan
Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
- These - Ge 5:32
- and of - Ge 8:17 10:2-32 1Ch 1:4-28
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated
Genesis 9:20 Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
- an husbandman - Ge 3:18,19,23 4:2 5:29 Pr 10:11 12:11 Ec 5:9 Isa 28:24-26
- planted - De 20:6 28:30 Pr 24:30 Song 1:6 1Co 9:7
Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard
Genesis 9:21 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
- and was - Ge 6:9 19:32-36 Pr 20:1 23:31,32 Ec 7:20 Lu 22:3,4 Ro 13:13 1Co 10:12 Ga 5:21 Tit 2:2
- and he - Hab 2:15,16 Rev 3:18
He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Genesis 9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Ham - Ge 9:25 10:6,15-19 1Ch 1:8,13-16
- told - 2Sa 1:19,20 Ps 35:20,21 40:15 70:3 Pr 25:9 30:17 Ob 1:12,13 Mt 18:15 1Co 13:6 Ga 6:1
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
- Ex 20:12 Lev 19:32 Ro 13:7 Ga 6:1 1Ti 5:1,17,19 1Pe 2:17 4:8
But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
Genesis 9:25 So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers."
- Cursed - Ge 9:22 3:14 4:11 49:7 De 27:16 28:18 Mt 25:41 Joh 8:34
- a servant - The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity. Jos 9:23,27 Jud 1:28-30 1Ki 9:20,21 2Ch 8:7,8 Joh 8:34
So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers
Genesis 9:26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
- Blessed - De 33:26 Ps 144:15 Ro 9:5
- the Lord - Ge 10:10-26 12:1-3 Lu 3:23-36
- Shem - Heb 11:16
- his servant - or, servant to them, Ge 27:37,40
He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 9:27 "May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant."
- enlarge - or, persuade
- Japheth - Japheth denotes enlargement, and how wonderfully have his boundaries been enlarged; for not only Europe, but Asia Minor, part of Armenia, Iberia, the whole of the vast regions of Asia north of Taurus, and probably America, fell to the share of his posterity.
- he shall dwell - These words may mean either that God or that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem. In either sense the prophecy has been literally fulfilled.
- dwell - Isa 11:10 Ho 2:14 Mal 1:11 Ac 17:14 Ro 11:12 15:12 Eph 2:13,14,19 3:6,13 Heb 11:9,10
May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant
Genesis 9:28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
Genesis 9:29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
- nine - Ge 5:5,20,27,32 11:11-25 Ps 90:10
So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.