Jenèz
Chapters
Chapter by chapter
- 1 Ordered, not hurried Light, sky, land, lights, creatures, then people — each introduced in its place rather than at speed. Explained
- 2 A garden, and a man from dust The seventh day is set apart; then the account starts again from dry ground, a garden and a rib. Explained
- 3 Three questions, and no answer that helps A serpent questions what God said, they eat and hide, and God asks three questions before anyone is sent out. Explained
- 4 Am I my brother's keeper Two offerings, one accepted, and the brother who was not kills the other — then is marked so nobody kills him. Explained
- 5 Ten generations, and one who does not die A list from Adam to Noah with the same shape each time, broken once by a man who walked with God and was not. Explained
- 6 Measured in cubits The earth fills with violence and God decides to end it, except for one man given exact dimensions to build to. Explained
- 7 The waters rise They go in, the rain comes, the mountains are covered, and everything on dry land dies. Explained
- 8 A raven, then a dove God remembers Noah, a wind passes, the vessel rests, and two birds are sent to ask whether the world is back. Explained
- 9 A sign put in the cloud A blessing, permission to eat meat with one restriction, a rule about blood, and a covenant with something to look at. Explained
- 10 By family, language, land and nation The peoples descended from Noah's three sons, grouped four ways and ending where the next chapter begins. Explained
- 11 One language, and then not A plain, a plan to build a tower, and a scattering; then a genealogy that walks quietly toward Abram. Explained
- 12 Go, to a land not named A man is told to leave everything for a country he is not told the name of, and he goes. Explained
- 13 You choose first Too rich to share one country, their herdsmen quarrel, and the elder gives the younger first pick. Explained
- 14 Four kings against five The cities of the plain are looted and Lot is taken; Abram arms his household, and a priest-king meets him coming back. Explained
- 15 Count the stars, if you can He says he is still childless; he is taken outside, shown a sky, and a covenant is cut in the dark. Explained
- 16 The God who sees me A servant is given, conceives, is driven out, and meets someone by a spring who gives God a name nobody else gives him. Explained
- 17 New names, at ninety-nine A covenant, a new name for him and for her, and a sign cut into the body. Explained
- 18 She laughed, and said she did not Three men arrive in the heat of the day; one says Sarah will have a son, and then Abraham argues God down from fifty to ten. Explained
- 19 Do not look back Two messengers are taken in, the city surrounds the house, and the family is pulled out by the hand. Explained
- 20 She is my sister, again The same half-truth a second time, a king warned in a dream before anything happens, and a rebuke from outside the family. Explained
- 21 This time, out loud Isaac is born and Sarah laughs where everyone can hear; then she asks for the other mother and son to be sent away. Explained
- 22 Three days' walk He is told to take his son to a mountain, and the story gives the walk its full length before anything is said. Explained
- 23 Four hundred shekels, weighed out Sarah dies and Abraham refuses a gift, insisting on buying the field and the cave at the going rate, in public. Explained
- 24 A sign asked for at a well A servant is sent back to find a wife, asks for a specific sign, and it happens before he has finished speaking. Explained
- 25 Sold for a bowl of stew Abraham dies and is buried by both his sons; then twins struggle, and the elder trades what he was born with. Explained
- 26 The same wells, dug again A famine, the same half-truth his father told, and wells reopened one after another under the same names. Explained
- 27 The voice is Jacob's An old blind father, a mother listening at the door, and a blessing that cannot be taken back once it is given. Explained
- 28 A stone for a pillow Sent away to find a wife, he sleeps in the open, sees a stairway, and wakes saying God was here and he did not know. Explained
- 29 Seven years, then seven more He works seven years for Rachel and is given Leah on the wedding night, then works seven more. Explained
- 30 Each name is an argument Eleven sons and a daughter are born, and every name records something said between two sisters. Explained
- 31 His face had changed Jacob sees the welcome go cold and leaves without saying so; Rachel takes the household gods and sits on them. Explained
- 32 Wrestled until daybreak Four hundred men are coming; he sends gifts ahead, is left alone, and comes out of the night limping and renamed. Explained
- 33 He ran, and embraced him Jacob bows seven times expecting the worst; Esau runs to meet him and the feared reunion does not happen. Explained
- 34 Answered with a knife Dinah is seized; her brothers use a covenant sign as a trap, and their father's objection is about reputation. Explained
- 35 Buried under a tree Told to go back, he buries the household's foreign gods, builds an altar, and buries Rachel on the road. Explained
- 36 A list of the other brother Esau's wives, sons and chiefs, the people already in Seir, and kings who reigned before there was a king in Israel. Explained
- 37 A coat, and two dreams The favourite is given a coat and tells his brothers two dreams in which they bow; he is sold and a coat is returned bloodied. Explained
- 38 The story stops for a chapter Judah leaves his brothers, and a woman he has wronged proves it with three objects he gave her himself. Explained
- 39 She kept his coat Trusted with everything, refused day after day, and accused by the garment he left behind when he ran. Explained
- 40 Two dreams, one night Two officers dream in the same prison, and the man who reads both is forgotten by the one who goes free. Explained
- 41 Seven fat, seven thin Two years later Pharaoh dreams twice, nobody can read it, and the forgotten man is brought up out of the pit. Explained
- 42 He knew them, and they did not Ten come to buy grain and the man selling it recognises them; he speaks through an interpreter and keeps one back. Explained
- 43 They cannot go back without him The grain runs out and Judah stands surety; the youngest is brought down, and the host has to leave the room. Explained
- 44 Searched from the eldest down A cup is planted, the sacks are opened in order, and Judah offers himself in the place of his brother. Explained
- 45 I am Joseph He sends everyone out and tells them who he is, weeping loudly enough for the Egyptians to hear. Explained
- 46 Do not be afraid to go down He stops to sacrifice on the way, is told not to fear the journey, and a household is counted as it goes. Explained
- 47 Few and hard, my years have been Five brothers and then his father meet Pharaoh; asked his age, the old man answers with an assessment nobody requested. Explained
- 48 He crossed his hands Two grandsons are adopted as sons, and the hands go deliberately to the wrong heads despite an objection. Explained
- 49 Twelve, one at a time He gathers his sons and speaks over each in turn: some get a future, some a character, some the memory of what they did. Explained
- 50 You meant it for harm He carries his father back to the bought cave; afterwards the brothers fear him, and he answers without denying what they did. Explained
The order is the edition’s own; your canon is chosen in the app. Every book the edition carries is listed here.