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Berean Standard Bible

Genesis

50 chapters

Chapters

Genesis 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 2

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Genesis 3

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

Genesis 4

And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.

Genesis 5

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

Genesis 6

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 7

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 8

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Genesis 9

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 10

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

Genesis 11

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

Genesis 12

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

Genesis 13

So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.

Genesis 14

In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

Genesis 15

After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

Genesis 16

Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Genesis 17

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 18

Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.

Genesis 19

Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

Genesis 20

Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

Genesis 21

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

Genesis 22

Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

Genesis 23

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.

Genesis 24

By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

Genesis 25

Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

Genesis 26

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Genesis 27

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

Genesis 28

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

Genesis 29

Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

Genesis 30

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

Genesis 31

Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”

Genesis 32

Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 33

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

Genesis 34

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

Genesis 35

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 36

This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

Genesis 37

Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.

Genesis 38

About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.

Genesis 39

Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

Genesis 40

Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

Genesis 41

After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

Genesis 42

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

Genesis 43

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Genesis 44

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 45

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Genesis 46

So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 47

So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

Genesis 48

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 49

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:

Genesis 50

Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.