GENESIS

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GENESIS

• The Book of Beginnings

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These are the generations

• Hebrew tAdl.At hL,ae - Elleh toledoth
• Ten sets
• History of account follows These are the
  things that followed

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Beginning Ending

• Genesis begins with God In the beginning God
  created
• Genesis ends with a corpse in a coffin in
  Egypt

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Genesis 126-27

• The God said, Let Us make man in Our image,
  according to Our likeness and let them rule over
  the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky
  and over the cattle and over all the earth, and
  over every creeping thing that creeps on the
  earth.
• And God created man in His own image, in the
  image of God He created him male and female He
  created them. (Genesis 126-27).

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Genesis 128

• God blessed them and God said to them, Be
  fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and
  subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and
  over the birds of the sky and over every living
  thing that moves on the earth. (Genesis 128).

• In the Image of God
• Federal Headship
• Stewardship and a basis for Ecology

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Seed of the Woman
Seed of the Serpent
Abel Seth
Cain
Enoch
Lamech
Noah
Shem
Ham
Abraham
Canaan
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The First Three Patriarchs

• Each is given a series of promises
• A Seed
• A Land
• A Blessing
• A Blessing to the nations
• Each lives as an alien in the land
• Each has a barren wife who gives birth
• Each deals with rivalry among his sons

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Genesis 15 The Covenant Ceremony

• To Cut a Covenant

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The Isaac Narrative

• His name Laughter
• The offering of Isaac Take now your son, your
  only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the
  land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt
  offering on one of the mountains of which I will
  tell you. (Genesis 222).

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The Jacob Narrative
? Haran

• His name Heel-grabber
• The Birthright.
• The Blessing.
• Jacobs Ladder.
• Sojourn in Haran.

• The Esau Incident

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The Joseph Story

• A problem of favoritism
• Deception with garments and a goat
• Departure from the land
• Egypt in the days of Joseph
• Josephs Imprisonment
• Josephs Exaltation
• Israels Entrance into Egypt

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A Pattern of Israels Purpose

• Altars Worship
• A Sense of Purpose
• Unity
• Racial Religious Purity

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Seed of the Woman
Seed of the Serpent
Abraham
Ishmael
Isaac
Jacob
Esau
Whose Seed are You?
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