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God's covenant with Abraham and the patriarchs
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God creates the heavens, earth, and all life in six days, culminating with humanity made in His image to rule creation.
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God forms Adam, plants Eden, creates Eve as his partner, and establishes the first marriage in perfect harmony.
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The serpent tempts Eve and Adam; they disobey God, bringing sin, death, and separation, yet God promises redemption.
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Cain murders Abel out of jealousy; sin spreads as Cain builds the first city and his descendants develop civilization.
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Adam's genealogy spans 1,656 years to Noah; Enoch walks with God and is taken; Methuselah lives 969 years.
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Humanity's wickedness grieves God; He chooses Noah to build an ark and preserve life through the coming flood.
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Noah, his family, and animals enter the ark; God shuts them in as rain falls for 40 days, flooding the earth.
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The flood waters recede; Noah sends out birds to test the land, then exits the ark and offers sacrifice to God.
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God establishes a covenant with Noah, permits eating meat, institutes human government, and promises never to flood the earth again.
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The table of nations: descendants of Noah's sons spread across the earth, establishing 70 distinct people groups.
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Humanity rebels by building Babel; God confuses their language and scatters them, then calls Abraham to start over.
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God calls Abram to go to Canaan, promises blessing and a great nation; famine drives him to Egypt where he misrepresents Sarai.
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Abram and Lot separate to avoid strife; God reaffirms the land promise as Abram dwells near Hebron.
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Abram rescues Lot from warring kings, is blessed by Melchizedek, and refuses plunder to honor God.
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God covenants with Abram, promising innumerable offspring and land; Abram believes and it is counted as righteousness.
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Sarai gives Hagar to Abram; Ishmael is conceived; God sees Hagar’s affliction and promises a future for her son.
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God establishes circumcision as the covenant sign, renames Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, and promises Isaac.
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The Lord visits Abraham, announces Isaac’s birth; Abraham intercedes for Sodom with bold, compassionate prayer.
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Sodom and Gomorrah are judged; Lot is rescued, his wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt; Moab and Ammon arise from Lot’s daughters.
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Abraham repeats the sister ruse in Gerar; God protects Sarah and corrects Abimelech.
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Isaac is born; Hagar and Ishmael are sent away but preserved by God; Abraham makes a treaty at Beersheba.
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God tests Abraham with Isaac’s sacrifice; the Lord provides a ram and reaffirms His oath of blessing.
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Sarah dies; Abraham purchases the cave of Machpelah as a family burial site in Canaan.
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Abraham’s servant, led by God’s providence, finds Rebekah who willingly becomes Isaac’s wife.
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Abraham dies; Esau and Jacob are born; Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for a meal.
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God confirms the promise to Isaac; a famine, a repeat of the sister ruse, well disputes, and a covenant with Abimelech follow.
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Jacob, guided by Rebekah, deceives Isaac to gain the blessing; Esau vows revenge.
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Jacob flees; at Bethel he dreams of a ladder to heaven and receives God’s covenant promises.
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Jacob serves Laban, marries Leah by deception and then Rachel, and begins to build his family.
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Rachel and Leah compete in childbearing; mandrakes and flocks feature as God prospers Jacob.
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Jacob departs secretly; God warns Laban; they make a covenant at Mizpah and part ways.
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Jacob prepares to meet Esau, wrestles with a mysterious man, receives the name Israel, and is blessed.
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Esau and Jacob reconcile; Jacob settles near Shechem.
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Dinah is violated; Simeon and Levi massacre the men of Shechem, bringing reproach on Jacob’s house.
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God calls Jacob back to Bethel; foreign gods are put away; Rachel dies bearing Benjamin; Isaac dies and is buried.
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The generations of Esau: the chiefs and kings of Edom are listed.
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Joseph’s dreams provoke jealousy; his brothers sell him into slavery; he is taken to Egypt and sold to Potiphar.
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Judah and Tamar’s story displays sin, justice, and unexpected lineage mercy.
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In Egypt Joseph prospers under Potiphar, resists temptation, is falsely accused, and imprisoned but the Lord is with him.
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Joseph interprets the cupbearer’s and baker’s dreams in prison; the cupbearer is restored but forgets Joseph.
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| 41 |
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams of famine and plenty, rises to power, and stores grain to save many lives.
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Joseph’s brothers come to buy grain; Simeon is detained; they are tested and troubled by their guilt.
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The brothers return with Benjamin; Joseph hosts them, stirring fear and wonder.
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Joseph’s silver cup test prompts Judah’s heartfelt plea to spare Benjamin for their father’s sake.
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Joseph reveals himself, forgives his brothers, and summons Jacob to Egypt under God’s providential plan.
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Jacob journeys to Egypt with his household; God assures him; the family settles in Goshen.
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Joseph manages the famine economy; Jacob blesses Pharaoh; land policy shifts; Jacob nears death.
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Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh, crossing hands to give the younger the greater blessing.
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| 49 |
Jacob prophesies over his twelve sons, then dies instructing burial in Machpelah.
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Joseph buries Jacob in Canaan, reassures his brothers of forgiveness, and dies in faith, awaiting God’s visitation.
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