Genesis

Treated in 420 passages across the library.

The first book of the Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses. Genesis tells of the creation of the world, the fall of humanity in Adam and Eve, the flood in Noah's day and the tower of Babel, then follows God's covenant with Abraham and its passing to Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. It closes with Jacob's family settled in Egypt, carrying the promise that through Abraham's seed all nations will be blessed.

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  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 8 — The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as Natural Reason Admits cites Gen. 49:5

    …come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united,” (Gen. 49:5, 6). This stigma he certainly might have passed in silence, not only that he might spare…

  2. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising cites Gen 49:4

    …to another. Such as are unsettled are of the tribe of Reuben, ‘unstable as water,’ Gen 49:4; like a ship without ballast, overturned with every wind of doctrine. Beza writes of one…

  3. Tell Me the Story – Book 1: In the Beginning · Ochorus Originals

    Introduction: The Best Story of All cites Genesis 1:1

    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1 Do you like stories? Stories about brave people, and long journeys, and big surprises?…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Gen 25: 5

    …but he settled the inheritance upon Isaac. ‘Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.’ Gen 25: 5. God may send away the men of the world with gifts, a little gold and silver; but in…

  5. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Righteousness of Faith cites Gen. 15:6

    …Even so Abraham “believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness.” (Gen. 15:6.) “And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith, — that…

  6. Communion with God · John Owen

    That the saints have communion with God cites Gen. v. 22

    …the friend of God, Isa. xli. 8; David, a man after his own heart; Enoch walked with him, Gen. v. 22; — all enjoying this communion and fellowship for the substance of it. But the way into…