The Living Bible Series

The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity.

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans.

The motive for Cain's crime is typically assumed to be jealousy, but the narrative never states this, nor does it provide a reason for God's rejection of his sacrifice.

The Genesis flood makes up chapters 6 to 9 in the book of Genesis.

Even though the rainbow is a natural phenomenon today, it must be remembered that it had never rained before this event.

There was a severe famine in the land of Canaan, so that Abram and Lot and their households, traveled south to Egypt.

Abraham and Lot divide the land and settle in separate lands.

God speaks to Abraham and makes a covenant with him.

Three angels bring a message to Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah is destroyed.

God promises that Sarah will give birth to a son. She gives birth to Isaac.

Isaac married Rebekah. She gave birth to two sons, Esau and Jacob.

Jacob deceived his father by pretending to be Esau and thereby taking his birthright.

Jacob fell in love with Rachel. He was deceived into taking her sister Leah as his wife. Rachel was barren but Leah gave birth to four sons.

Shechem is killed by Jacob and Simeon for defiling their sister.

Joseph interprets a dream for Pharaoh and is then put in charge of the whole of Egypt.

Joseph is reunited with his father and brothers.

Moses is found in a basket in a river by Pharao's daughter.

God commands Moses to bring his chosen people out of Egypt into the Promised Land.

From Egypt, Moses led the Israelites to biblical Mount Sinai, where he was given the Ten Commandments from God, written on stone tablets.

Some of the Isaraelites make a golden calf to worship instead of God. The tabernacle is built.

Moses sends men who discover that Canaan is a good land. People loose trust and God says that they will never see the Promised Land.

The Israelites arrive in the desert of Zin. There was no water for them and the people questioned why Moses had led them out of Egypt.

The death of Moses was at God’s command: “So Moses died according to the word of the Lord.”

The march around the city for seven days, the shouts and blowing of the ram's horn trumpets, the crumbling of Jericho's walls—all are dramatic and unforgettable.

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.