An Outline of Genesis:
GENESIS: CREATION, DAMNATION & THE PROMISE OF NEW CREATION

Creation, Damnation, New Creation, Damnation (1-11)
I. Creation, Sin, Judgment, Exile and the Promise of Salvation (1-6)
A. Creation (1-2)
1. God Speaks the Cosmos (1)
2. The Generations of the Heavens and the Earth Begin/Birth of Eden (2)
B. Sin-Judgment-Exile and the Promise of Salvation (3-6)
1. The Sin, Judgment, Exile and Salvation Promise for Adam and Eve (3)
2. The Sin, Judgment, Exile and Salvation Promise for Adam and Eve’s Children (4-6)

II. New Creation, Sin, Judgment, Exile and the Promise of Salvation (6-11)
A. New Creation: The Salvation of Noah and the Animals through the Waters (6-9)
B. Sin, Judgment, Exile and Promise of Salvation for Noah’s Sons (9-11)

Another New Creation: The Covenant with Abraham and his Offspring (12-50)
I. The Covenant with Abraham (12-25)
A. Abram from Babylon to Canaan, to Egypt, back to Canaan (12)
B. Lot Chooses Sodom, Abram is Promised the Land Again (13)
C. Abram Victorious in Battle, Blessed by Melchizedek (14)
D. God Seals His Covenant with Abram (15-17)
1. An Unconditional Covenant Cut (15)
2. Abram and Sarai Doubt the Covenant (16)
3. God Renews and Seals His Covenant: New Names & Circumcision (17-18)
E. Abraham Among the Nations (18-24)
1. Abraham a Priest for Sodom and Gomorrah (18)
2. God Judges Abraham’s Wicked Neighbors, Saving Lot (19a)
3. The Sin and Exile of Lot/Ammonites (19b)
4. Abimelech Barren, Abraham Blessed (20-21)
5. The Test of Abraham’s Faith (22)
6. Abraham Possesses the Hitites (23)
7. Abraham Keeps the Covenant Race Pure (24)
F. Abraham Dies Blessing Isaac (25a)

II. The Covenant with Isaac (25b-26)
A. Two Nations Spring From Isaac, Jacob Inherited (25b)
B. God Renews His Covenant with Abraham through Isaac (26a)
C. Isaac Blessed Among the Philistines (26b)

III. The Covenant with Jacob (27-36)
A. Jacob Takes Isaac’s Only Blessing (27)
B. Jacob in Exile (28-33)
1. Jacob Keeps the Covenant Race Pure, Esau Defiled (28a-b)
2. Joseph’s Dream at Beth-El (28c)
3. Jacob’s Blessings Multiply (29-30)
a. Jacob Marries Leah (fruitful) and Rachel (barren) (29)
b. Jacob Fathers Many Children (30a)
c. Jacob’s Flocks Multiply (30b)
4. Jacob Flees Laban (31)
5. Jacob and Esau Reconciled (32-33)
a. God Wrestles Jacob in his Night of Dread (32)
b. The Brothers Meet (33)
C. Jacob in Canaan (34-36)
1. The House of Shechem Plundered (34)
2. God Renews His Covenant at Beth-El (35a)
3. Rachel and Israel Die (35b)
4. Esau’s Descendents (36)

IV. The Covenant With Joseph [and Judah’s Redemption] (37-50)
A. Joseph Sold into Slavery to Egypt [Judah Ruthless](37)
[B. Judah Humiliated by Tamar (38)]
C. Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife (39)
D. Joseph in Prison (39b-40)
1. Joseph Promoted (39b)
2. Joseph Interprets Dreams (40)
E. Joseph in Pharaoh’s Court (41-50)
1. Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams and is Promoted (41)
2. Joseph Reconciled to His Family (42-46)
a. Joseph’s Brothers Arrive, (Dreams Fulfilled), Simeon Detained (42)
b. Joseph’s Brothers Reconciled to Him (43-45)
i. Return with Benjamin (43)
ii. Joseph Tests their Love for Benjamin [Judah Redeemed] (44)
iii. Joseph Restored to His Brothers (45)
c. Joseph Reunited with Jacob (46)
3. Joseph’s Family Settle in Egypt (47)
4. Jacob Blesses His Descendants (48-49)
5. Joseph Dies (50)