The beginning of everything — creation, the fall, and the first families of faith.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the ______."
Genesis covers more time than the other 65 books combined — from creation to Joseph's death in Egypt, well over two thousand years of story in fifty chapters.
The word 'Genesis' means 'origin' or 'beginning' — and the book delivers: the first family, the first city, the first rainbow, and the first coat anyone ever argued over.
Joseph's story is the longest single story in Genesis — fourteen chapters of dreams, betrayal, and the best plot twist in the Old Testament.
Genesis 1 verses show up constantly in our Warm-Up dailies. Genesis 36 — the genealogy of Esau — does not. You're welcome.