Genesis
The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Genesis
How each chapter begins
- Genesis 1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 2
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
- Genesis 3
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has…
- Genesis 4
The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s help.”
- Genesis 5
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
- Genesis 6
When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
- Genesis 7
The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in…
- Genesis 8
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass…
- Genesis 9
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 10
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them…
- Genesis 11
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
- Genesis 12
Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I…
- Genesis 13
Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
- Genesis 14
In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,
- Genesis 15
After these things the LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your…
- Genesis 16
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Genesis 17
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me…
- Genesis 18
The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
- Genesis 19
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed…
- Genesis 20
Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in…
- Genesis 21
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- Genesis 22
After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
- Genesis 23
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
- Genesis 24
Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Genesis 25
Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
- Genesis 26
There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to…
- Genesis 27
When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My…
- Genesis 28
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Genesis 29
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
- Genesis 30
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or…
- Genesis 31
Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this…
- Genesis 32
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Genesis 33
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the…
- Genesis 34
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 35
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you…
- Genesis 36
Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 37
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 38
At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
- Genesis 39
Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him…
- Genesis 40
After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
- Genesis 41
At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
- Genesis 42
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
- Genesis 43
The famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 44
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each…
- Genesis 45
Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go…
- Genesis 46
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
- Genesis 47
Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all…
- Genesis 48
After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and…
- Genesis 49
Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in…
- Genesis 50
Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.