Genesis
Genesis

50 chapters · Old Testament

Chapter 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Chapter 2
The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.
Chapter 3
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God ha...
Chapter 4
The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I h...
Chapter 5
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he...
Chapter 6
It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daught...
Chapter 7
Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have...
Chapter 8
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him i...
Chapter 9
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and...
Chapter 10
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham,...
Chapter 11
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Chapter 12
Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and...
Chapter 13
Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, int...
Chapter 14
It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Ch...
Chapter 15
After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't...
Chapter 16
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian,...
Chapter 17
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him,...
Chapter 18
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the h...
Chapter 19
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw t...
Chapter 20
Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kade...
Chapter 21
Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Chapter 22
It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abrah...
Chapter 23
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.
Chapter 24
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all thi...
Chapter 25
Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Chapter 26
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of...
Chapter 27
It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could no...
Chapter 28
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife o...
Chapter 29
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east...
Chapter 30
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She s...
Chapter 31
He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was o...
Chapter 32
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Chapter 33
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him...
Chapter 34
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughte...
Chapter 35
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar...
Chapter 36
Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
Chapter 37
Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
Chapter 38
It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a...
Chapter 39
Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain...
Chapter 40
It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his bak...
Chapter 41
It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he s...
Chapter 42
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do...
Chapter 43
The famine was severe in the land.
Chapter 44
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food,...
Chapter 45
Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and...
Chapter 46
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifi...
Chapter 47
Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with...
Chapter 48
It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your fathe...
Chapter 49
Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell...
Chapter 50
Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.