Genesis Overview

The Book of Moses called Genesis—1^st of 5 Books written by Moses

Correlation with The Book of Moses found in the Pearl of Great Price

Chapter 1--IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED—See Moses 2

Day 1	light
	darkness
Day 2	earth
	water
Day 3	grass
	seed-bearing hers
	fruit-bearing trees
Day 4	greater light
	lesser light
Day 5	water creatures
	fowl
Day 6	beast
man	cattle
woman—(from man)	creeping things

   

Chapter 2—See Moses 3 

God rests on the 7^th day. Further explains creation of man and woman and location and condition of Garden of Eden

 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Notice the reference to “generations of heaven” suggesting that the “days” terminology is symbolic

4  These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Situation in the Garden of Eden

 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

 Relationship between husbands and wives and condition in the garden 

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Chapter 3—See Moses 4--FIRST TEMPTATION
 
Eve and Adam partake of the fruit of good and evil. The Lord appears to the couple. The couple hides themselves.  They make aprons of leaves and the Lord clothes His children with animal skins. The Lord curses ground for the couple’s sake:  They must work. The couple is banished from the garden.

Chapter 4—See Moses 5--CAIN AND ABEL
 
Abel presents a sheep as an offering.  Cain offers fruit of the ground.  Cain’s offering is not acceptable to the Lord.  Cain is angry and kills is brother. Cain is marked so he is not killed.

We learn from Moses 5:17 a more complete version.  Cain’s offering was not acceptable because he followed Satan.

18 And Cain loved Satan more than God. And Satan commanded him, saying: Make an offering unto the Lord.

Genealogy of Adam’s son Cain

Cain	Adam’s Son
Enoch	Adam's grandson
Irad	Adam’s (2) great grandson
Mehujael	Adam’s (3) great grandson
Methuselah	Adam’s (4) great grandson
Lamech wife Adah. Jabal & Jubal	Adam’s (5) greats grandsons
Lamech wife Zillah son Tubalcain & daughter Naamah	Adam’s (5) greats grandson & grand daughter

Chapter 5—See Moses 6

ADAM’S SON SETH’S GENEALOGY

Name	Generation	Years
Adam		930
Seth	son	912
Enos	grandson	905
Cainan	great grandson	910
Mahalaleel	(2) great grandson	895
Jared	(3) great grandson	962
Enoch	(4) great grandson	365
Methuselah	(5) great grandson	969
Lamech	(6) great grandson	777
Noah	(7) great grandson	500

We find the story of Enoch in Moses 7.  This final verse summarize Enoch’s experience:

 69 And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from thence went forth the saying, Zion is Fled.

Chapter 6--NOAH’S STORY

Noah was a just man who was commanded to build an ark of gopher wood 300 cubits by 50 cubits because the people were corrupt and violent.  Gopher wood is likely a type of coniferous cedar.  He is told a great flood will come and to populate the ark with his family and two of every kind of clean and unclean animal & fowl.

“It would take approximately 85 class members standing with their arms outstretched and their fingertips touching to make a line the same length as the ark that Noah built.”

An oceean liner is about 1007 feet long.  The ark just under 450 feet long.

Chapter 6--NOAH’S STORY CONTINUED

Noah obeys. It rains for 40 days.  The ark lifts from the ground and floats.  The water was 15 cubits upwards deep.

“The ordinary unit of length among the Hebrews; originally the distance from the elbow to the tip of the fingers. It varied in length, from 17 1/2 inches in the 8th century B.C. to 21 1/2 inches in time of our Lord.”

  23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remaine alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Chapter 8--NOAH CONTINUED

God made wind to pass over the earth. The waters receded. After 150 days the water was abated. The ark rested on Mt. Arafat. Waited in the ark from the 7^th month until the 2^nd month of the next year to leave the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offering on the altar.

Chapter 9--NOAH CONTINUED

God Covenants with Noah never to destroy all the inhabitants by flood again.

He says that the symbol of the rainbow will remind the inhabitant of this promise.

 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

Chapter 10--DESCENDANTS OF NOAH

Japeth whose descendants are Gentiles.

Ham whose descendants include the Canaanites.

Shem who is associated with Peleg.

Chapter 11--TOWER OF BABEL

Babel is located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Equivalent=Babylon.

The Lord confounds language and scatters them across the earth/

Chapter genealogy leads us to Abraham’s family.

Shem		600
Arphaxad (born 2 yrs. after flood	Shem’s son	530
Salah	Shem’s grandson	403
Eber	Shem’s great grandson	860?
Peleg	Shem’s 2 greats grandson	239
Reu	Shem’s 3 greats grandson	239
Serug	Shem’s 4 greats grandson	230
Nahor	Shem’s 5 greats grandson	148
Terah	Shem’s 6 greats grandson—sons: Abram (later Abraham), Nahor, and Haran	205 Died in Haran

Chapter 12--ABRAM LEAVES HARAN FOR EGYPT       

 

At 75, Abram with Lot leaves Haran.  Abram passes through Sichem, the plains of Moreh in Canaan, pitching his tent by Bethel on the west and Hai on the east.  Continues to journey to the south.  Famine pushed Abram into Egypt.

Pharaoh tries to take Sarai from Abram because of her beauty.  

Chapter 13--ABRAM LEAVES EGYPT SETTLES IN HEBRON.  

A wealthy Abram leaves Egypt, and Lot and he divide the land. Lot gets the better land.

Abram is promised Canaan. He walks the length and breadth of the land.  He moves to Hebron.

Chapter 14--LOT CAPTURED IN BATTLE OF KINGS

Abram rescues Lot after he is captured in a battle between two groups of kings.

Abram refuses the spoils of war.  Abram meets Melchizedek who blesses him

 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made.

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