By its Hebrew Paragraphs
1:1-5 {p} First day of Creation
1:6-8 {p} Second day of Creation
1:9-13 {p} Third day of Creation
1:14-19 {p} Fourth day of Creation
1:20-23 {p} Fifth day of Creation
1:24-31 {p} Sixth day of Creation
2:1-3 {p} Seventh day of Creation
2:4-3:15 {s} Disobedience to YHVH’s command is sin
3:16 {s} Consequences for the woman
3:17-21 {p} Consequences for the man
3:22-24 {s} Exile from YHVH’s presence is a consequence of sin
4:1-26 {s} Exile from family is the consequence of sin
5:1-5 {s} Mortality of Adam
5:6-8 {s} Mortality of Seth
5:9-11 {s} Mortality of Enosh
5:12-14 {s} Mortality of Kenan
5:15-17 {s} Mortality of Mahalalel
5:18-20 {s} Mortality of Jared
5:21-24 {s} Enoch walked with God and did not die
5:25-27 {s} Mortality of Methuselah
5:28-31 {s} Mortality of Lamech
5:32-6:4 {p} Holy Spirit will not strive with flesh forever
6:5-8 {p} Exile a consequence of sin, but Noah found grace in the eyes of YHVH
6:9-12 {s} Righteous Noah contrasted with the corrupt earth
6:13-8:14 {s} The righteous preserved through the judgment of the wicked
8:15-9:7 {s} Blessing on the righteous, be fruitful and multiply
9:8-17 {p} God’s everlasting covenant with the earth
9:18-29 {p} Shem and Japheth blessed/ Canaan cursed
10:1-14 {s} The sons of Japheth and Ham
10:15-20 {s} The sons of Canaan
10:21-32 {p} The sons of Shem
11:1-9 {p} The tower of Babel rebellion against God
11:10-11 {s} Shem the father of Arphaxad
11:12-13 {s} Arphaxad the father of Shelah
11:14-15 {s} Shelah the father of Eber
11:16-17 {s} Eber the father of Peleg
11:18-19 {s} Peleg the father of Reu
11:20-21 {s} Reu the father of Serug
11:22-23 {s} Serug the father of Nahor
11:24-25 {s} Nahor the father of Terah
11:26-32 {p} Terah the father of Abram, Nahor, Haran
12:1-9 {p} Promise of land + descendants
12:10-13:18 {p} Abram’s faith in the promise tested + promise reaffirmed
14:1-24 {s} Signs of Messiah: victory over death, Melchizedek, bread + wine
15:1-21 {s} Promise reaffirmed by covenant
16:1-16 {s} Abram’s faith in the promise tested (Ishmael)
17:1-14 {s} Circumcision, sign of the covenant, given
17:15-27 {p} Promised seed through Sarah (Isaac)
18:1-19:38 {s} Abraham’s intercession/ overthrow of Sodom + Gomorrah
20:1-18 {s} Abimelech takes but then restores Sarah, Abraham’s wife
21:1-21 {p} Isaac becomes Abraham’s heir when he is weaned
21:22-34 {p} Abimelech and Abraham make a covenant of peace
22:1-19 {p} Abraham and the offering of Isaac
22:20-24 {p} The seed of Nahor
23:1-20 {s} Heth gives Abraham a possession in Canaan
24:1-67 {p} The servant finds a bride for Isaac, the promised seed
25:1-11 {p} The seed of Abraham
25:12-18 {p} The seed of Ishmael
25:19-34 {p} The seed of Isaac
26:1-33 {s} Life of Isaac repeats events from the life of Abraham
26:34-35 {s} Esau’s wives
27:1-28:9 {s} Jacob receives the blessing/ Jacob’s wife
28:10-32:2 {p} God fulfills His promise to Jacob (wives + children + flocks)
32:3-33:17 {s} Jacob renamed Israel, “Upright of El”
33:18-20 {s} Jacob acquires property in Canaan + altar of God
34:1-31 {p} Defilement with Canaanites + killing/ plunder + rebuke
35:1-8 {p} Repentance and return to the house of God
35:9-22a {p} Renewal of the covenant
35:22b-29 {p} The seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
36:1-19 {s} The seed of Esau
36:20-30 {p} The seed of Seir
36:31-43 {p} The kings of Edom
37:1-36 {p} Joseph’s advancement and enslavement
38:1-30 {s} Judah departed from his brothers among Canaanites
39:1-23 {p} Joseph departed from his brothers among Egyptians
40:1-23 {p} Joseph in prison
41:1-44:17 {s} Joseph the overseer
44:18-46:7 {s} Joseph revealed to his brothers and father
46:8-27 {s} Seventy persons of Israel went down to Egypt
46:28-47:31 {p} Joseph the provider
48:1-22 {p} Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
49:1-4 {p} Reuben’s blessing
49:5-7 {p} Simeon and Levi’s blessing
49:8-12 {p} Judah’s blessing
49:13 {p} Zebulun’s blessing
49:14-15 {s} Issachar’s blessing
49:16-18 {s} Dan’s blessing
49:19 {s} Gad’s blessing
49:20 {s} Asher’s blessing
49:21 {s} Naphtali’s blessing
49:22-26 {p} Joseph’s blessing
49:27-50:26 {p} Benjamin’s blessing + death, burial of Jacob + death of Joseph