Genesis Flashcards
Theme of Genesis
Theme: Beginnings/Covenants/Generations
Key Chapters Genesis: 1
Key Chapters: Creation (Broad Perspective)
Key Chapters Genesis: 2
Key Chapters: Creation (Focus on Man)
Key Chapters Genesis: 3
Key Chapters: Temptation, Fall, Curses
Key Chapters Genesis: 4
Key Chapters: Cain & Able, Cain’s line - civilization
Key Chapters Genesis: 6-8
Key Chapters: Flood: deliverance in the Ark
Key Chapters Genesis: 9
Key Chapters: Noahic covenant, curse of Canaan
Key Chapters Genesis: 11
Key Chapters: Babel: dispersion of nations
Key Chapters Genesis: 12
Key Chapters: Abrahamic covenant established
Key Chapters Genesis: 18-19
Key Chapters: Sodom and Gomorrah
Key Chapters Genesis: 22
Key Chapters: Isaac is offered up
Key Chapters Genesis: 32
Key Chapters: Jacob wrestles w/God
Key Chapters Genesis: 37
Key Chapters: Joseph’s dream; Joseph is sold by his brothers
Key Chapters Genesis: 49
Key Chapters: Jacob blesses his sons
Key Passages: Genesis 1:24-27
Key Passages: 6th day of creation
Key Passages: Genesis 1:31
Key Passages: Creation is declared “very good.”
Key Passages: Genesis 2:24
Key Passages: A man shall leave, cleave, and weave
Key Passages: Genesis 3:15
Key Passages: The promised seed.
Key Passages: Genesis 6:1-4
Key Passages: The “sons of God”
Key Passages: Genesis 12:1-3
Key Passages: Abrahamic covenant
Key Passages: Genesis 35:9-12
Key Passages: Jacob becomes “Israel.”
Key Passages: Genesis 50:20
Key Passages: “God meant it for good.”
Key Dates: Genesis was written by Moses in the years following the Exodus
Key Dates: 1445 B.C.
Key Dates: Creation
Key Dates: Unknown, if genealogies in Gen. 5 and 10 are incomplete. Possibly ca. 10,000 - 5,000 B.C.
Key Dates: Flood
Unknown from todays reference point, but 1656 AM (Anno Mundi - “year of the world”) according to the OT genealogies.
Key Dates: Abraham
Key Dates: 2165 B.C. - 1990 B.C.
Key Dates: Joseph
Key Dates: 1914 B.C. - 1804 B.C.
Outline Genesis: Four Events
Ch. 1-11 - Creation(1-2), Fall(3-5), Flood(6-9), Nations(10-11)
Outline Genesis: Four People
Ch. 12-50 - Abraham(12-24), Isaac(25-26), Jacob(27-36), Joseph(37-50)
Key People in Genesis: Enoch
Key People: Father of Methuselah; walked w/God; never died but was taken.
Key People in Genesis: Shem
Key People: Noah’s eldest, ancestor of Abraham (Royal line of Christ)
Key People in Genesis: Nimrod
Key People: hunter, great King, founder of cities, sone of Cush.
Key People in Genesis: Terah
Key People: Abram’s father, left Ur for Haran
Key People in Genesis: Melchizedek
Key People: priest, king of Salem
Key Chapters: Genesis 25
7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years. 8#Abraham p breathed his last and q died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 9#Isaac and Ishmael r his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, 10#the field s that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. t There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife. 11#After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at u Beer-lahai-roi.
Key Chapters: Genesis 27
Key Chapters: Jacob’s Deception, The Stolen Blessing.
