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From Eden to Egypt: Exploring the Genesis Themes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis comes first in the biblical canon and arguably forms the foundation for understanding the rest of the Bible. Its great narratives of the patriarchs and exciting stories capture the imagination of the youngest reader, and its great themes, like creation, the fall, and the flood help answer many questions. Important issues are all dealt with ably, but this is not a technical commentary; the...

Genesis 1: The work of creation READ GENESIS CHAPTER 1 There is a very real sense in which the book of Genesis is the most important book in the whole Bible. Not because it comes first in the biblical canon, but because it is foundational for the understanding of the other books of the Bible. The title ‘Genesis’ in both its Hebrew and Greek forms means ‘beginnings’ or ‘origins’ and comes from the Hebrew phrase ‘bereshith’ (In the beginning) with which the book opens. In the chapters that follow we
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