The Bible: the Book of Genesis

Chapter 1, verse 1		In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
Chapter 1, verse 3		And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
On the second day		God made the firmament and called it Heaven.
On the third day		God created the dry land and called it Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he the Seas. (God created) the grass, the herb and the fruit tree.
On the fourth day		God made (the sun, the moon and the stars)
On the fifth day		God created the great whales, and every living thing that moveth.
On the sixth day		God created the beast of the earth after his kind God created man in his own image
On the seventh day		God ended his work which he had done, and he rested …

The first words spoken by God to man (Genesis 1:28)		Be fruitful and multiply
Noah on releasing the animals from the Ark (28:4)		Go forth and multiply
Tree that God forbade Adam to eat from		The tree of the knowledge of good and evil

Age at which Noah begat his three sons		500
Noah's age at the time of the Flood		600
Size of the Ark, in cubits (length, breadth, height)		300 x 50 x 30
Number of people on Noah's Ark		8
The rains lasted		40 days and nights
The waters prevailed upon the earth		150 days
The tops of the mountains were seen on the first day of the		10th month
First bird released from the Ark, never to return – the first bird mentioned in the Bible		Raven
Second bird released from the Ark		Dove
Noah released the dove		3 times
First time it brought back		Nothing
Second time it brought back		An olive leaf
Third time		It didn't come back
Mountain on which Noah's Ark came to rest		Ararat

Tribes of Israel (named after the sons of Jacob)		12
Methuselah lived for		969 years

Second son of Adam and Eve: became a shepherd; was murdered by his elder brother Cain; first person to die in the Bible (Genesis Chapter 4)		Abel
The common ancestor of the Israelites and their neighbours; "Father of the Jews"		Abraham
Sarah and Keturah (in turn) were the wives of; Hagar (Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden) was his concubine, and the mother of his first–born son, Ishmael		Abraham
Youngest of Jacob's twelve sons – Joseph's only younger brother		Benjamin
Eldest son of Adam and Eve; the first person born of human parents, and also the first murderer: a crop farmer, he murdered his younger brother Abel after God seemed to show a preference for Abel's offering of livestock. When God asked him where Abel was, he replied "I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?" Exiled by God from Eden, went out and dwelt in the Land of Nod (east of Eden)		Cain
Son of Cain; also (a different person) the son of Enos, grandson of Seth, father of Methuselah and great–grandfather of Noah		Enoch
Son of Seth (grandson of Adam); grandfather of Methuselah, great–great–grandfather of Noah, etc.		Enos
Sold his birthright to his younger twin Jacob, for "a mess of pottage"		Esau
Wood used for the Ark		Gopher wood
The mother of Abraham's first–born son, Ishmael: the Egyptian handmaiden of his first wife, Sarai (Sarah), who offered her to him in order to bear him a son		Hagar
Purpose of the Tower of Babel		To reach heaven
Second and longest lived of the three Biblical patriarchs: son of Abraham and Sarah, whom God ordered Abraham to sacrifice as a test of his faith; father of Jacob and Esau		Isaac
Eldest son of Abraham; patriarch of the Arabs		Ishmael
Last of the three Biblical patriarchs; son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham; the younger twin brother to whom Esau sold his birthright		Jacob
Married his first cousins Leah and Rachel (daughters of Laban, who was the brother of his mother Rebecca)
Wrestled with an angel (described in Genesis as a "man", but often equated with God) – after which God renamed him Israel
The twelve tribes of Israel were descended from him, and named after his sons
Second youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob (Israel) – see Rachel, Benjamin; famous for his coat of many colours; given by God the ability to interpret dreams; sold into slavery by his jealous brothers		Joseph
Son of Methuselah, father of Noah		Lamech
First wife of Jacob and mother of six of his twelve sons		Leah
700 specially–chosen men from Benjamin's tribe who fought the Israelites at Gibea		Left handed
Nephew of Abraham, settled in Sodom when Abraham went to Canaan		Lot
Turned into pillar of salt, for looking back at the destruction of Sodom		Lot's wife
The oldest man named in the Bible – Noah's paternal grandfather		Methuselah
Noah's great grandson – "a mighty hunter before the Lord"		Nimrod
Described (Genesis Chapter 6, verse 9) as "a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time"		Noah
Shem, Ham and Japheth were the three sons of
The first person in the Bible to get drunk ("And he drank of the wine, and was drunken" – Genesis 9:21)
Land East of Eden, where Cain went after killing Abel – probably meaning "a life of wandering"		Nod
Captain of the Pharaoh's Palace Guard, into whose household Joseph was sold as a slave, and whose wife accused him of rape		Potiphar
Second and favourite wife of Jacob – mother of Joseph and Benjamin		Rachel
God's sign of his "covenant" with Noah, that "Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth"		Rainbow
Wife of Isaac, mother of Jacob and Esau		Rebekah
Wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac – name often said to mean "princess"		Sarah (Sarai)
Adam and Eve's third child – given to them by God to replace Abel; an ancestor of Noah		Seth
Two of the cities of the Plain, destroyed by fire and brimstone		Sodom
		Gomorrah

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The Bible: the Book of Genesis