Genesis
How each chapter begins
- Genesis 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 2
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
- Genesis 3
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did…
- Genesis 4
And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have…
- Genesis 5
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
- Genesis 6
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
- Genesis 7
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this…
- Genesis 8
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the…
- Genesis 9
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
- Genesis 10
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- Genesis 11
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
- Genesis 12
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will…
- Genesis 13
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
- Genesis 14
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
- Genesis 15
After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your…
- Genesis 16
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- Genesis 17
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be…
- Genesis 18
Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of…
- Genesis 19
Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them…
- Genesis 20
Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying…
- Genesis 21
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
- Genesis 22
Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- Genesis 23
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
- Genesis 24
By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
- Genesis 25
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
- Genesis 26
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to…
- Genesis 27
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him…
- Genesis 28
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
- Genesis 29
Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
- Genesis 30
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will…
- Genesis 31
Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this…
- Genesis 32
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Genesis 33
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah…
- Genesis 34
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 35
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you…
- Genesis 36
This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 37
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 38
About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
- Genesis 39
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of…
- Genesis 40
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
- Genesis 41
After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
- Genesis 42
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 43
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 44
Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s…
- Genesis 45
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!”…
- Genesis 46
So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father…
- Genesis 47
So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come…
- Genesis 48
Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Genesis 49
Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to…
- Genesis 50
Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.