The primeval saga
Creation 1:1-2:3
Eden 2:4-3:24
Cain and Abel 4:1-26
Genealogy 5:1-32
Flood 6:1-9:17
Noah and his sons 9:18-29
Table of nations 10:1-32
Tower of Babel 11:1-9
Genealogy 11:10-26
The Abraham/Sarah cycle
Origins 11:27-32
Promise and call 12:1-9
Threat to ancestress 12:10-20
Abraham and Lot 13:1-18
Abraham and Sodom 14:1-24
Covenant 15:1-21
Hagar 16:1-16
Covenant 17:1-27
The three visitors 18:1-21
Intercession for Sodom 18:22-33
Lot flees Sodom 19:1-38
Threat to ancestress 20:1-18
Birth of Ishmael 21:1-21
Treaty with Abimelech 21:22-34
Binding of Isaac 22:1-24
Death of Sarah 23:1-20
Wife for Isaac 24-1-67
Death of Abraham 25:1-11
Descendants of Ishmael 25:12-18
The Jacob/Leah/Rachel cycle
Birth of Esau and Jacob 25:19-26
Esau sells birthright 25:27-34
Threat to ancestress 26:1-16
Treaty with Abimelech 26-17-35
Jacob steals blessing 27:1-45
Jacob leaves Canaan 27:46-28:9
Jacob's dream at Bethel 28:10-22
Jacob marries 29:1-30
The 11 sons of Jacob 29:31-30:24
Jacob leaves Laban 30:25-31:55
Jacob prepares to meet Esau 32:1-21
Jacob wrestles man at Jabbok 32:22-32
Jacob meets Esau 33:1-20
Threat to Dinah 34:1-31
Jacob goes to Bethel 35:1-15
Death of Rachel 35:16-21
Death of Isaac 35:22-29
Descendants of Esau 36:1-43
The Joseph story
Joseph sold into Egypt 37:1-36
Judah and Tamar 38:1-30
Potiphar's house 39:1-23
Joseph interprets dreams 40:1-23
Pharaoh's dreams 41:1-36
Joseph made overseer 41:37-57
Joseph and his brothers 42:1-44:34
Joseph tells his brothers who he is 45:1-24
Jacob goes to Egypt 45:25- 46:7
The names of the Israelites 46:8-27
Jacob meets Joseph 46:28-34
Jacob blesses Pharaoh 47:1-12
Joseph as saves Egypt 47:13-26
Jacob near death 47:27-48 '22
Jacob's blessing 49:1-28
Death and burial of Jacob 49:29-50.3
Joseph and his brothers 50:15-21
Death of Joseph 50:22-26