I Try to Explain the Book of Genesis

**I Try to Explain the Book of Genesis** is the 1st episode Jake Doubleyoo's series(es) Jewish Mythology and Abrahamic Mythology along with the 1st episode of his series Catholicism and the 31st episode of his Mythologies series overall.

## Synopsis

*This video covers (most of) the book of Genesis, from creation, to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, and the lives of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.*

## Plot

Unlike most of the beginning of his religion series(es) Jake Doubleyoo rather than ask a question about said religion before starting the video just gets started with the video.

In the beginning of the universe there was darkness up until God created light (in Jake's video he exaggerates the creation of light through having God injure himself). Afterwards God creates earth using water that was flooding the planet to create enough oxygen to create land, God then created animals before creating the first human named Adam. After having Adam named the animals but finding that none of them quite boded well with Adam he took one of Adam's ribs and created a female human named Eve, the 2 fell in love and everything seemed great, God only had 1 rule for the 2, that being to never eat from the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil. Adam and Ever obeyed this rule for the longest time until a serpent came over to Eve who was impressed with his legs and told her to eat the tree, Eve was hesitant until the serpent told her that God had lied to her.

Eve seeing how tasty the fruit was ate it and gave it to Adam who also ate it opening their minds to the secrets of the universe and the fact that they were naked. So the 2 hid in a bush until God arrived, Adam awkwardly explained that he had no clothes on to which God questioned who told him he had none until he realized Adam ate the fruit. Adam stated that if God had maybe given the tree another name that it would make more sense before blaming it on Eve, Eve however blamed it on the serpent. God was furious at the serpent and so removed his legs, Adam and Eve thought everything was good between them and God now that the serpent lost its legs however God fearing the 2 would eat the Tree of Life gaining them immortality. So God kicked them out and had 2 Cherubs stand guard of the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword in case Adam and Eve didn't get the message, Adam now would have to work for his food and Eve's births would be painful.

Eve would give birth to 2 children Cain and Able, however Able was more popular than Cain and so Cain out of rage, jealousy, and anger killed Able in cold blood. This however did not up Cain's popularity to he fled with his wife to the land of Nod and created a city called Enoch where he began his lineage, later on Adam had a son named Seth who had many children before his own death starting a city of his own. God decided to check in on the humans and upon seeing how much sin and anger they had turned to decided to destroy them all, however he saw that one human named Noah still worshiped and loved God and so gave him a head's up before helping with specific instructions on how to build an ark. Noah and his family lived in the Ark for a little over a year before God told them that the next apocalypse will be better and will happen a long time later but in the meantime he created a rainbow. Noah's children began to have more children and God went to check on the humans again only to find them trying to overthrow him this time so he made their languages different so they couldn't understand each other leading to them abandoning the project.

Sometime later a man named Abram got a call from God who told him to move out of his homeland and put his faith in God because if he did his descendants would be numerous. Abram listened however as the centuries passed Abram still didn't have any children, God told Abram not to worry as his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. However Abram's wife Sarai still couldn't produce and so had Abram have a child with her slave/servant Hagar, at first Sarai was cool with having her servant do this but upon becoming pregnant Hagar began to act rebellious making Sarai not so cool with it. So in an act of revenge Sarai began to enact punishment so Hagar left until a angel stopped her informing her that if she went back she would get a son named Ishmael who would give her a long legacy of descendants, Hagar asked the angel if Sarai would stop being mean to which he did not respond but she went back anyway. God then came to Abram who had just turned 99 years old and told him that he was going to finally give him a child and that him and his wife's names were now "Abraham" and "Sarah" and that all males had to be circumcised now.

Abraham and Sarah thought it was laughable the 2 could have a child but sometime later the 2 finally had a son named Isaac giving God the last laugh quite metaphorically and literally given that Isaac means "He laugh". After having Isaac, Sarah had Abraham kick Hagar and Ishmael out of Canaan where Hagar set Ishmael up with an Egyptian lady where he started a lineage of his own. Abraham and his wife Sarah were happy to have Isaac and Abraham loved his son more than anything when God told him to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham not happy about it decided to do so, meanwhile God asked the angel if he told Abraham it was a test yet. The angel realizing that it was time to tell Abraham went as fast as he could and told Abraham that he passed God's test and instead of sacrificing Isaac to sacrifice a nearby goat, Isaac then grew up to marry his cousin Rebekah. Rebekah came pregnant with twin boys who she could feel fighting in the womb letting her know the 2 would have an intense rivalry, she eventually gave birth to 2 named Esau and Jacob. Isaac favored Esau while Rebekah favored, one day Esau famished from hunting asked for some of Jacob's food, Jacob stated he would give said food if Esau handed over his birthright of their father's blessing and Esau agreed.

Eventually Isaac got so old that he became blind and he knew God was soon going to collect his soul and so decided it was time to give his blessing to Esau, Esau decided to go hunting to give his father a big feast to earn said blessing. However Rebekah heard this and told Jacob about it and advised him to trick his father into giving him the blessing first, Jacob asked what he was supposed to do about not being hairy and Rebekah covered him in fur. Jacob then brought his father the food pretending to be Esau, Isaac suspicious asked why "Esau" sounded like Jacob (to which Jake took a moment to make a joke about him being the only voice actor) Isaac felt this makes sense and so ate the food before giving the blessing to Jacob. However Jacob then heard Esau nearby and so left, when Esau eventually came, Isaac realized he'd been tricked and informed his son that he could only give the blessing once, this angered Esau to the point that he wanted to kill Jacob. Rebekah overheard Esau's plans and so warned Jacob and he fled the land of Canaan to Heron where he married his cousins Leah and Rachel, Jacob had many children with his wives and their slaves before going back to Canaan.

On the way there, Jacob met up with an angel and wrestled him and won but in the process dislocated his hip, this would leave the angel to rename Jacob to "Israel" meaning "He who struggled with divine beings". Upon going back to Canaan, Jacob met back up with Esau however Esau had gotten over his rage and was happy to see his brother, Jacob later on had a child with Rachel his favorite wife that he named Joseph, Joseph became the favorite of his children and Jacob even gave him a coat. Joseph began having dreams that he would rule over his family and told his brothers this, however his brothers highly disliked this and so tossed him into a pit, Reuben the eldest of the brothers planned to come back for Joseph later. Unfortunately before he could his brothers noticed Egyptian slave traders and so sold Joseph to them, the brothers then came back with the coat covered in goats' blood stating that it had been discarded much to Jacob's horror.

Joseph was sold to Potiphar one of the pharaoh's highest servants and thanks to God's blessing Joseph was great at handiwork and manual labor, however Potiphar's wife felt an attraction towards Joseph. However after Joseph rejected her she accused him of sexual assault and had him thrown in prison, there he met his prison inmates who had strange dreams and he translated both of them, the wine bearer would become a wine bearer again however the baker would be hanged. Later on the pharoah soon heard of Joseph's ability and told him about his dream to which Joseph informed him the next 7 years would be full of food and wealth while the next 7 years after that would be full of famine and poverty and had the pharoah put him in charge of storing and organizing. And as Joseph stated his prophecy came true affecting all the land, Jacob sent his son's and his newest son Benjamin to where the food was being held with Benjamin being a sort of replacement for Joseph. Joseph recognized his brothers but they did not recognize him so Joseph set up a test framing them for thievery however when the brothers begged him to not take their brother away he revealed his true self to their shock he then brought the rest of his family to Egypt where him and his brother started another lineage.

We are then taken to Jake who is reading the Bible and states that what he just read is (more or less) the book of Genesis, he states he hasn't read the rest but he's sure that the Israelites did just fine in Egypt. Only for him to turn the other page and realize they didn't do so well nearly cursing at the realization.

## Characters

* Yahweh
* Adam(debut; death)
* Eve(debut; death)
* Lucifer(debut; snake form; future dragon form mentioned)
* Cherubs(debut)
* Cain(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Able(debut; death)
* Cain's Wife(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Enoch(debut; presumed death)
* Irad(debut; presumed death)
* Mehujael(debut; presumed death)
* Methushael(debut; presumed death)
* Lamech(debut; presumed death)
* Adah(debut; presumed death)
* Zillah(debut; presumed death)
* Jabal(debut; presumed death)
* Jubal(debut; presumed death)
* Tubal-cain(debut; presumed death)
* Naamah(debut; presumed death)
* Able's Wife(debut; indirectly mentioned; presumed death)
* Seth(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Seth's WIfe(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Enosh(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Kenan(debut; presumed death)
* Mehalalel(debut; presumed death)
* Jared(debut; presumed death)
* Enoch(debut; presumed death)
* Methuselah(debut; presumed death)
* Lamech(debut; presumed death)
* Noah(debut; presumed death)
* Man's First Civilization(debut; deaths)
* Noah's Wife(debut; presumed death)
* Shem(debut; presumed death)
* Shem's Wife(debut; presumed death)
* Ham(debut; presumed death)
* Ham's Wife(debut; presumed death)
* Japeth(debut; presumed death)
* Japeth's Wife(debut; presumed death)
* Noah's Rebellious Descendants(debuts; presumed deaths)
* Abram/Abraham(debut; death)
* Sarai/Sarah(debut; death)
* Hagar(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Unnamed Angel(debut)
* Ishmael(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Isaac(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Ishmael's Wife(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Nebiaoth(debut; presumed death)
* Massa(debut; presumed death)
* Kedar(debut; presumed death)
* Hadar(debut; presumed death)
* Adbeel(debut; presumed death)
* Tema(debut; presumed death)
* Mibsam(debut; presumed death)
* Jetur(debut; presumed death)
* Mishma(debut; presumed death)
* Naphish(debut; presumed death)
* Dumah(debut; presumed death)
* Kedemah(debut; presumed death)
* Rebekah(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Esau(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Jacob/Israel(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Leah(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Rachel(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Zilpah(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Bilhah(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Reuben(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Joseph(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Benjamin(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Potiphar(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Potiphar's Wife(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Paroah's Wine Pourer(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Pharoah's Baker(debut; offscreen death)
* Pharoah(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Enoch(debut; presumed death)
* Pallu(debut; presumed death)
* Hezron(debut; presumed death)
* Carmi(debut; presumed death)
* Simeon(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Jemuel(debut; presumed death)
* Jamin(debut; presumed death)
* Ohad(debut; presumed death)
* Zohar(debut; presumed death)
* Saul(debut; presumed death)
* Jachin(debut; presumed death)
* Levi(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Gershon(debut; presumed death)
* Kohath(debut; presumed death)
* Merari(debut; presumed death)
* Judah(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Shelah(debut; presumed death)
* Perez(debut; presumed death)
* Zerah(debut; presumed death)
* Issachar(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Tola(debut; presumed death)
* Puvah(debut; presumed death)
* Job(debut; presumed death)
* Shimron(debut; presumed death)
* Zebulun(debut; presumed offscreen death)
* Sered(debut; presumed death)
* The other Descendants of Israel(debuts; presumed death)

## Trivia

* Along with being the longest video on his channel or rather Mythologies series it has the most characters in it both on and offscreen