| 1:1 – 2:3 | The creation of Heaven and Earth | |
| 2:4 – 2:25 | The creation of Adam and Eve | |
| 3:1 – 3:24 | The sin and fall of man | |
| 4:1 – 4:26 | Cain and Abel | |
| 5:1 – 5:32 | The descendants of Adam | |
| 6:1 – 8:22 | The flood | |
| 9:1 – 9:29 | God’s covenant with Noah | |
| 10:1 – 10:32 | The descendants of Noah | |
| 11:1 – 11:9 | 1 | The Tower of Babel |
| 11:10 – 11:32 | The descendants of Shem | |
| 12:1 – 12:9 | The call of Abram | |
| 12:10 – 12:20 | Abram goes to Egypt | |
| 13:1 – 13:18 | Abram leaves Egypt / Abram and Lot separate | |
| 14:1 – 14:6 | 2 | War of kings / Abram saves Lot |
| 14:7 – 14:24 | 3 | Abram’s blessing from Melchizedek |
| 15:1 – 15:21 | God’s covenant of Abram | |
| 16:1 – 16:16 | Ishmael is born of Hagar | |
| 17:1 – 17:27 | The sign of the covenant with Abram instituted – circumcision | |
| 18:1 – 18:15 | Abram encounters three visitors | |
| 18:16 – 18:33 | Abraham pleads for Sodom | |
| 19:1 – 19:29 | 4 | The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah |
| 19:30 – 19:38 | The sins of Lot’s daughters (Moab and Ammon conceived) | |
| 20:1 – 20:18 | Abraham and Abimelech | |
| 21:1 – 21:7 | The birth of Isaac | |
| 21:8 – 21:21 | 5 | Hagar and Ishmael cast out |
| 21:22 – 21:34 | Abraham and Abimelech make covenant | |
| 22:1 – 22:24 | 6 | Abraham and Isaac worship God (a lamb provided) |
| 23:1 – 23:20 | The death and burial of Sarah | |
| 24:1 – 24:67 | Isaac and Rebecca | |
| 25:1 – 25:11 | The death of Abraham | |
| 25:11 – 25:18 | The descendants of Ishmael | |
| 25:19 – 25:34 | Jacob and Esau (Esau/Edom: father of the Edomites – 36:9) | |
| 26:1 – 26:35 | Isaac and Abimelech | |
| 27:1 – 27:40 | 7 | Jacob steals Esau’s blessing |
| 27:41 – 28:9 | Jacob sent to be with Laban to be protected from Esau’s anger. | |
| 28:10 – 28:22 | 8 | Jacob’s dream at Beth-el (Jacob’s Ladder) |
| 29:1 – 29:30 | 9 | Jacob meets Rachel / Marries both Leah and Rachel |
| 29:31 – 30:24 | The sons of Jacob (12 tribes of Israel) | |
| 30:25 – 30:43 | Jacob and Laban make agreement so Jacob can leave to return homeland | |
| 31:1 – 31:55 | Jacob runs from Laban / Covenant made between the two. | |
| 32:1 – 32:21 | Jacob sends gifts to soften the heart of Esau | |
| 32:22 – 32:32 | 10 | Jacob wrestles with God at Peniel |
| 33:1 – 33:20 | Jacob and Esau meet | |
| 34:1 – 34:31 | Dinah defiled / City of Hamor destroyed | |
| 35:1 – 35:15 | Jacob returns to Beth-el / God appears to him again | |
| 35:16 – 35:29 | The deaths of Isaac and Rachel | |
| 36:1 – 36:43 | The descendants of Esau / The Kings of Edom | |
| 37:1 – 37:11 | Joseph’s Dream | |
| 37:12 – 37:36 | Brothers lot to kill Joseph / Sold into slavery | |
| 38:1 – 38:30 | Judah and Tamar | |
| 39:1 – 39:23 | Joseph and Potiphar’s wife / Put into prison | |
| 40:1 – 41:57 | 11 | Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams / Made ruler |
| 42:1 – 47:31 | Great Famine / Joseph’s brothers visit Egypt for help / Family united | |
| 48:1 – 48:22 | Jacob blesses Joseph’s sons | |
| 49:1 – 50:21 | Jacob blesses his sons / Death of Jacob / Comfort to brothers | |
| 50:22 – 50:26 | The death of Joseph |