Genesis
50 chapters, 1533 verses. The 1st of 66 books, in The Law.
How it begins
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Chapters
- 1The creation
- 2God's rest and the garden
- 3The fall of man
- 4Cain and Abel
- 5From Adam to Noah
- 6Wickedness grows
- 7The flood begins
- 8Waters recede
- 9The covenant with Noah
- 10Nations divided
- 11The tower of Babel
- 12Abram called
- 13Abram and Lot separate
- 14Kings wage war
- 15The covenant with Abram
- 16Ishmael is born
- 17Abram becomes Abraham
- 18Visitors at Mamre
- 19Sodom destroyed
- 20Abraham at Gerar
- 21Isaac is born
- 22The sacrifice of Isaac
- 23Sarah dies
- 24A wife for Isaac
- 25Abraham's death
- 26Isaac in Gerar
- 27Jacob deceives Isaac
- 28Jacob's ladder
- 29Jacob marries Leah and Rachel
- 30Jacob's children
- 31Jacob flees Laban
- 32Jacob prepares to meet Esau
- 33Jacob and Esau reconcile
- 34Dinah is defiled
- 35God confirms Jacob
- 36Esau's descendants
- 37Joseph's dreams
- 38Judah and Tamar
- 39Joseph in Potiphar's house
- 40Joseph in prison
- 41Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams
- 42Joseph's brothers come to Egypt
- 43Benjamin goes to Egypt
- 44Joseph's cup
- 45Joseph reveals himself
- 46Jacob goes to Egypt
- 47Jacob settles in Goshen
- 48Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
- 49Jacob blesses his sons
- 50Jacob's funeral
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.