Genesis Summary

The story of Genesis starts with creation of the universe by the holy God during 7 days. In the seventh day God made humans such as Adam and Eve. They were not supposed eat the apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil. Eve without any thinking got tempted for power from the apple. Adam also had the apple without knowing it was different.

They got ejected from the forest and got banished from God. They created a simple family, but at first it wasn’t great because the sons of Adam and Eve since they had an accident of murder between Cain and Abel which Cain killed Abel. Time passed and the population of humans grew, but people were trying to gain the power of God and with that they did many stupid actions like reaching the sky with towers and more. At the time one human called Noah was the least corrupted out of the humans, so God told him to create an ark with his family and pairs of each animal species in it. Then God made waves of natural disasters which killed many people except Noahs family.

Long after Noah’s family lived, corrupted humans still existed, but Abraham existed as a person who put God before others. Abraham and Sarah met and became a fine couple, but they never had children even though they were in the 80s. They prayed to God then, soon enough they got Isaac. When Abraham had to sacrifice something, he had nothing so he chose to sacrificed Isaac since he put his heart on God. God feels bad for Abraham, so God creates a lamb which soon enough gets sacrificed.

Isaac as a grown man created an dynasty which he was blind soon enough. His son Jacob tricked him and Esau and left to his Uncles place for almost 20 years. Jacob meets God and goes to Esau when he has an successful life and has a happy reunion. Since Jacob has 12 children with him, he gave his blessing to Joseph since he was the favorite and the others were jealous, so they sold him to Egypt to be a scribe. Joseph adapts to Egypt and becomes the prime minister.

In a fateful reunion which God created, the siblings meet Joseph again and apologizes to him when the siblings saw him as Joseph. Isaac comes with the siblings and stays there for some time. Then Isaac dies and get buried in Canaan at age 110. Joseph blesses his sibling and wished his siblings the best as he dies at old age like Isaac. The siblings buried him to places that would be best for him as Prime minister. The siblings live on remembering their father and brother Joseph in Egypt.

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