Genesis

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The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament, the Pentateuch and the Holy Scripture overall. According to the tradition, it was written by Moses around 1400 BCE, after Israelis' Exodus from Egypt. The name originates from the Greek *Γένεσις*, meaning *origin*. In the Hebrew Bible, it starts with the word *Bereshit* (In the Beginning)

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Subjects

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Genesis is mostly referring to how God (as the Father, 1st person of the Holy Trinity) created the world, and how the generations evolved til we reached to the generation of Jacob. It is divided in 50 chapters. The Chapters 1-11 are considered the Primeval History of the World and the Chapters 12-50 are considered its Ancestral History.

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Summary

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Genesis begins with how God created the world in the six first days. In the Seventh Day (Sunday) He decided to rest. His most notable creatures were humans, with the firstly created being Adam and his wife Eve. Adam and Eve were allowed to live in the Garden of Eden (Southern Mesopotamia). However, God would kick them out if they ate any fruit from a certain tree. (The fruit is thought to be lotus) Despite God's warnings, Eve was tempted to sin and eat from the fruit because of Satan, who, told her that if they ate it they would become *gods* and that's why God didn't want them to eat it. Adam ate from the tree as well. God decided to kick the humans out of the Garden and turn the Satan into a snake as a punishment.

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Humans continued to be born, but they soon became very sinful, til they got to the point where brothers killed each other. God decided to destroy every human (and every animal consequently) by sending a flood to the Earth for the mankind's sins. However, He informed Noah about the destruction (because of Noah's virtues) and asked him to create the Ark (huge ship) where he would stay with his family during the days of the Cataclysm. He also asked Noah to take two animals of each species with him in the Ark, since this was the only way to save them. This was the Covenant between God and the whole mankind, the first of the three covenants God has made with us.
In Genesis 18, God decided to inform Abraham (the first Patriarch of Israel, with the others being Isaac and Jacob) that, despite her age, his wife Sarah would born a child that time the next year. (This is the second covenant, between God and Abraham.) The child was named Isaac. Isaac later married Rebeca, who born Jacob, the third Patriarch of Israel. Furthermore, Jacob's children were the leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Main Characters: God the Father, Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah, Rachel, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin

Antagonists: Satan, Pharaoh

Trivia

1. Genesis' greatest meaning is actually how the generations evolved. Abraham was the first major Patriarch of Israel because his generation was the one our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ would come from. God decided to bless Abraham's generation for that reason.
2. Like many books of the Old Testament, some entities either take some forms that have deeper meanings or are given some characteristics. For example, when God realized that Adam and Eve had eaten from the forbidden fruit, the humans could hear His ''steps''. The fact of the matter is that these characteristics were used by the writer (Moses in this case) in order to make the holy text understandable. God's steps cannot be heard, since Moses was referring to God the Father at that time, who is indescribable and doesn't have a physical body.
3. According to Genesis, God created the humans in His image. (He gave them feelings and the freedom to choose) As a result, Charles Darwin's ''Evolution Theory'' that humans evolved from monkeys is considered heretic and blasphemous.