Bibl e Jour nal Guid e

Week 1: Genes is 1-7

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1:1-31;2:1-2
In the beginning, the earth
was without form and void

Day 1
“Let there be light”
God saw that the light was good, so he
separated the light from the darkness

Day 2
“Let there be a vault between
the waters to separat e water
from water.”
God called the vault “sky”

Day 3
“Let the water under the sky be gathere d to one
place, and let dry ground appear. ”

The land produced vegetation.

Day 4
“Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separat e the
day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark
sacred times, and days and years,”
sky to give light to the earth, to govern the
day and night, to separate light from darkness.

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 Day 5
“Let the water teem with living creatur es,
and let birds fly above the earth across the
vault of the sky.”
“Be fruitful and increase in number and fill
the water in the seas, and let the birds
increase on the earth.”

Day 6
“Let the land produce living creatur es accordin g to their kinds:
the livestock , the creatur es that move along the ground, and
the wild animals, each accordin g to its kind.”

“Let us make mankind

Day 7
in our image, in our
likeness , so that they By the seventh day God had
may rule over the fish finished the work he had
in the sea and the been doing; so on the
birds in the sky, over seventh day he rested from
the livestock and all all his work.
the wild animals, and
over all the creatur es
that move along the
ground.”

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Now no shrub had yet appeare d on
the earth and no plant had yet
Chapter 2 sprung up, for the Lord God had
not sent rain on the earth and
there was no one to work the
ground, but streams came up from
the earth and watered the whole
surface of the ground.

Adam
The Lord God took the man and
put him in the Garden of Eden to
Then the Lord God work it and take care of it.
formed a man from the
dust of the ground and Eden
breathe d into his nostrils
the breath of life, and
the man became a living
being.

Tree of
Knowle dge

And the Lord God

comman ded the man, “You
are free to eat from any
tree in the garden; but
you must not eat from the
tree of the knowled ge of
good and evil, for when
you eat from it you will
certainly die.”

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 An im al s Now the Lord God had formed out of the
ground all the wild animals and all the birds
in the sky. He brought them to the man to
see what he would name them; and
whateve r the man called each living
creatur e, that was its name. So the man
gave names to all the livestock , the birds in
the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

Ev e
Then the Lord God made
a woman from the rib he
had taken out of the man,
and he brough t her to the
man.

Adam and his wife were both

The man said, naked, and they felt no shame.

“This is now bone

of my bones and
flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called
‘woman, ’ for she
was taken out of
man.”

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 Ge nes isChapter 3

“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in
Se rp en t the garden’? ”

“We may eat fruit from the trees in the

Ev e garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit
from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you will
die.’ ”
“You will not certainly die, for God knows that
Se rp en t when you eat from it your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the

tree was good for food and pleasing to the
eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom,
she took some and ate it. She also gave
some to her husband, who was with her,
and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they realized they
were naked; so they sewed fig leaves
together and made covering s for
themselv es.

Lo rd go d “Where are you?”

Ad am “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid

because I was naked; so I hid.”
“Who told you that you were naked? Have you
Lo rd go d eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to
eat from?”

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 “The woman you put here with me—she gave me
Ad am some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

lo rd go d “What is this you have done?”

Ev e “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

lo rd go d
to the serpent
“Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and
all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all
the days of your life.”
to the woman
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor
you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
to the man
“Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about
which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the
ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all
the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and
you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you
will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you
were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”‬‬

“The man has now

The Lord banished from the
Garden of Eve become like one of lo rd go d
He drove the man out us, knowing good
and evil. He must
He placed on the east side of not be allowed to
the Garden of Eden cherubim reach out his hand
and a flaming sword flashing
and take also from
back and forth to guard the
way to the tree of life. the tree of life and
eat, and live
forever.”
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 Ge nes isChapter 4

Adam and Eve conceive d and bore Cain then Abel

Abel
Cain keeper of the ground
keeper of sheep

brought to the Lord the

offering of the firstborn of
brought an his flock and of their fat
offering of the portion
fruit of ground

The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, But the Lord looks on the
but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. heart (1 Samuel 16:7)
So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.

“If you do well, will you not be accepted ? And if you do not
Lord god do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary
to you, but you must rule over it.”

“What have you done? The voice of your

brother’s blood is crying to me from the
ground. And now you are cursed from the
Cain rose up ground, which has opened its mouth to
against his brother receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Abel and killed him When you work the ground, it shall no
longer yield to you its strength . You shall be
a fugitive and a wandere r on the earth.”

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 “My punishme nt is greater than what I
can bear. Behold, you have driven me Cain showed
Cain today away from the ground, and from arrogant -vindictiv e
attitude instead of
your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a
fugitive and a wandere r on the earth, repentan ce
and whoever finds me will kill me.”

“Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengean ce shall be taken on

Lord god him sevenfold .”

Then Cain went away from When he built a city, he

the presence of the Lord called the name of the city
and settled in the land of after the name of his son,
Nod, east of Eden. Enoch.

Adam Eve
Cain Abel Seth
Enoch killed by Cain
Enosh
Irad
Adam and Eve’s
Mehujael Geneolo gy as per
1st wife Methushae l 2nd wife Genesis 4
Adah Lamech Zillah
Jabal Jubal Tubal-cai n Namaah

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 Ge nes isChapter 5
This is the book of generat ions of
Adam (to Noah and his sons)

at age Male and female he

130 - fathered Enosh created them, and he
Adam had other sons and
daughters after Cain, Abel
blessed them and
and Seth named them Man
Adam fathered when they were
912 - died
Seth in his own created.
likeness, after
his own image

Seth Enosh kenan

at age at age at age
105 - fathered Enosh 90 - fathered Kenan 90 - fathered Kenan
807 - fathered other sons 815 - fathered other sons 815 - fathered other sons
and daughters and daughters and daughters
912 - died 905 - alive 905 - alive

Enoch Jared Mahalalel

at age at age at age
65 - fathered Enosh 162- fathered Kenan 65- fathered Kenan
300 - fathered other sons 800- fathered other sons 830- fathered other sons
and daughters and daughters and daughters
365- died 962- alive 895- alive

Mathuselah Lamech Noah

at age at age
187 - fathered Enosh 182 - fathered Enosh at 500 he fathered Shem,
782- fathered other sons 595- fathered other sons Ham, and Japheth
and daughters and daughters
969- died 777 - died

“Out of the ground that the Lord

has cursed, this one shall bring us
relief from our work and from the
painful toil of our hands.”
- Lamech referring to his son Noah

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 Ge nes is
Chapter 6:1-8

Man begin to multiply Lord god

Daughter were born
“My spirit shall not
Sons of God saw that the daughters of abide in man
man were attractive forever, for he is
They took as their wives any they flesh: his days shall
choose be 120 years.”

were on the earth in those days, and also afterward.

nephilim
children of SONS OF GOD and DAUGHTERS OF MAN

mighty men who were of old, the men of renown

The Lord saw:

the wickedness of man was great in the earth
every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.

The Lord regretted that he had

made man, and it grieved him to his
heart.

“I will blot out man whom I have created from

the face of the land, man and animals and
Lord god creeping things and birds of the heavens,
for I am sorry that I have made them.”

…but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

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 Ge nes is
Chapter 6:9-22
righteou s man
walked with God

Noah blameles s in his

had three sons:
Shem, Ham, Japheth
generat ion

filled with violence

Earth
corrupt in God’s eyes
all flesh had corrupte d in
their way to the earth

“I have determin ed to make an

end of all flesh, for the earth
Lord god is filled with violence through
them. Behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.”

God instructed Noah to make an

arc of gophe r wood

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 Noah did all this; he did all that
God comman ded him.

Lord god “For behold, I will bring a flood of

waters upon the earth to destroy all
“This is how you are flesh in which is the breath of life
to make it” under heaven. Everyth ing that is on
the earth shall die.”
Length of the ark 300
cubits, its breadth 50
cubits, and its height 30 “But I will establish my covenant with you”
cubits

Make it with lower, In the ark came:

second, and third
Noah
decks.
His sons
His wives
Make a roof for the His sons’ wives
ark, and finish it to a Every living thing of all flesh
cubit above, and set
the door of the ark in Two of every sort, male and female,
its side. according to their kinds:
Birds
Animals
Creeping thing of the ground
With them also came:
Every sort of food that is eaten
that served as food for all of
them

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 Ge nes is
Chapter 7

“Go into the ark, you and all your househol d, for I have seen
Lord god that you are righteous before me in this generatio n.”

God’s additional instructio ns:

Take seven pairs of all clean animals (male and his mate)
a pair of the animals that are not clean (the male and his mate)
seven pairs of the birds of the heavens (male and female)
to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth

in seven days God will send rain on the earth

40 days and 40 nights

every living thing that God have made he will blot out from
the face of the ground

Noah (600y.o.), his wife, his

sons, his sons’ wives

every sort of food that

is eaten 7 pairs of clean animals
and birds
2 of each kind of
animals, birds, a pair of unclean animals
creeping things
(Genesis 6)

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 All fountains of the great deep
broken up, windows of heaven
were opened

When:

in the 600th year of Noah,

rain was upon the earth for
in the 2nd month of that year
40 days and 40 nights
in the 17th day of that month

“The waters prevailed and

increased greatly on the earth, and
the ark floated on the face of the
waters. And the waters prevailed
so mightily on the earth that all
the high mountains under the whole
heaven were covered. The waters
prevailed above the mountains,
covering them fifteen cubits deep.”
“He blotted out every living thing
that was on the face of the
ground, man and animals and
creeping things and birds of the
heavens. They were blotted out
from the earth. Only Noah was
left, and those who were with him
in the ark.”

“And the waters

prevailed on the
earth 150 days.”

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