There's no other history so old. There's nothing in the most ancient books which exists that contradict it. Many things recorded by the oldest heathen writers, or traced in the customs of different nations, confirm the book of Genesis adapted from Matthew Henry's Commentary. This Genesis Bible study features daily online study questions designed for small group or individual study. It's always better if you can share your insights with another, so we recommend small group studies if possible.
Some questions require you to study the scriptures within the chapter, others will require you to go to related chapters or books of the Bible. Then there are questions only you can answer as we seek to apply Biblical principles to our lives. What you will study in these first 11 chapters are some of the most famous stories of all time:. Book of Genesis Chapter 1 -- This study of Genesis is the first of eleven in a series of studies of the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis.
Learn how and why God created our world and what He considered good and blessed. Learn who helped God create our world, learn whether evolution is supported, and see how we fit into the picture. Discover how these events affect us to this very day. What commands did God issue at the beginning of time and do they affect us still today?
Book of Genesis Chapter 3 -- Learn about the fall of man and how Adam and Eve's sin affects us all still today. See how Satan, the Father of Lies, uses a lie to trick mankind just as he continues to do today. Was it a sin to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
The serpent is cursed. The promised seed. The punishment of mankind. Their first clothing. Their casting out of paradise. The murder of Abel. The curse of Cain. Enoch the first city.
Lamech and his two wives. The birth of Seth, and Enos. The godliness and translation of Enoch. Noah findeth grace. The order, form, and end of the ark. The beginning, increase, and continuance of the flood.
The ark resteth on Ararat. The raven and the dove. Noah, being commanded, goeth forth of the ark. He buildeth an altar, and offereth sacrifice, which God accepteth, and promiseth to curse the earth no more. Blood and murder are forbidden.
God's Covenant signified by the rainbow. Noah replenisheth the world, planteth a vinyard, is drunken, and mocked of his son, curseth Canaan, blesseth Shem, prayeth for Japheth, and dieth. The sons of Japheth. The sons of Ham. Nimrod the first monarch. The sons of Shem. The building of Babel. The confusion of tongues.
The generations of Shem. The generations of Terah the father of Abram. Terah goeth from Ur to Haran. He departeth with Lot from Haran. He journeyeth through Canaan, which is promised him in a vision.
He is driven by a famine into Egypt: fear maketh him feign his wife to be his sister. Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her. By disagreement they part asunder. Lot goeth to wicked Sodom. God reneweth the promise to Abram. He reneweth the promise to Abram. He removeth to Hebron, and there buildeth an altar. Lot is taken prisoner. Abram rescueth him. Melchizedek blesseth Abram. Abram giveth him tithe. The rest of the spoil, his partners having had their portions, he restoreth to the king of Sodom.
Abram complaineth for want of an heir. God promiseth him a son, and a multiplying of his seed. Abram is justified by faith. Canaan is promised again, and confirmed by a sign, and a vision.
Hagar, being afflicted for despising her mistress, runneth away. An angel sendeth her back to submit herself, and telleth her of her child. Ishmael is born. Abram his name is changed in a token of a greater blessing. Circumcision is instituted. Sarai her name is changed, and she is blessed. Isaac is promised. Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised. Sarah is reproved for laughing at the strange promise.
The destruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham. Abraham maketh intercession for the men thereof. The vicious Sodomites are stricken with blindness.
Lot is sent for safety into the mountains. He obtaineth leave to go into Zoar. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. Lot's wife is a pillar of salt. Lot dwelleth in a cave. The incestuous original of Moab and Ammon.
Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream. He rebuketh Abraham, restoreth Sarah, and reproveth her. He is healed by Abraham's prayer. He is circumcised. Sarah's joy.
Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth. Hagar in distress. The angel comforteth her. Abimelech's covenant with Abraham at Beer-sheba. He giveth proof of his faith and obedience. The angel stayeth him. Isaac is exchanged with a ram.
Abraham is blessed again. The generation of Nahor unto Rebekah. The purchase of Machpelah, where Sarah was buried. GEN And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. GEN And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
GEN And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. GEN And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. GEN And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
GEN And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. GEN And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
GEN So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. GEN And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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