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Key Verses in Genesis
Important passages from Genesis, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning God created
The Bible's first sentence names God as the Creator of everything that exists. It opens the account of the six days of creation and God's rest on the seventh (Genesis…
26God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Made in the image of God
On the sixth day God makes humanity, male and female, in his image and gives them care of the earth. Every human being shares this dignity.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. The two become one flesh
After the creation of the woman, the narrator explains why a man leaves his parents and is joined to his wife. Jesus quotes this verse when asked about divorce (Matthew…
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.” The offspring of the woman
God speaks to the serpent after the fall, announcing lasting conflict between the serpent and the woman's offspring, ending with a crushing blow to the serpent's head.
1Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. 2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.” The call and promise to Abram
God calls Abram to leave his homeland and promises land, a great nation and blessing for all the families of the earth. The rest of Genesis follows this promise, and…
He believed in the LORD, who credited it to him for righteousness. Abram believed the LORD
Childless and old, Abram is told his descendants will be as many as the stars. He believes, and the LORD counts it to him as righteousness. Paul quotes the verse…
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’” All nations blessed through your offspring
After Abraham was willing to offer Isaac, the angel of the LORD repeats God's promise: all the nations of the earth will be blessed through Abraham's offspring, "because you have…
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.” I am with you, and will keep you
God speaks to Jacob in a dream at Bethel as he flees from his brother. He promises to be with Jacob, protect him and bring him back to the land.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. You meant evil, but God meant it for good
After their father dies, Joseph's brothers fear revenge. Joseph refuses to take God's place, forgives them, and sees God's purpose in what they did, without calling their wrong good.
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