Quick Look-Up Bere'shit - Genesis


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Sedra Bere'shit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) The Origins

1:1-2:3 Creation
2:4-2:25 Adam and Chava in Eden
3:1-3:24 The Fall
4:1-4:15 Kayin and Havel
4:16-4:24 Kayin's descendants
4:24-4:26 Shet
5:1-5:32 Genealogical tables
6:1-6:8 The Titans


Sedra No'ach (Genesis 6:9-11:32) The Flood

6:9-9:29 The Flood
10:1-10:32 Genealogical tables
11:1-11:9 The Tower of Bav-El
11:10-11:32 Ages of the tribal chiefs


Sedra Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) Av-Ram

12:1-13 Av-Ram leaves Charan for Kena'an; goes to Mitsrayim
12:14-20 Sarai sold to Pharaoh
13:1-18 Av-Ram and Lot separate; one to Mamre, the other to Sedom
14:1-16 The war of the kings
14:17-24 Malki-Tsedek of Shalem
15:1-21 Covenant
16:1-16 Hagar and Yishma-El
17:1-17 Covenant and annunciation


Sedra Va Yera (Genesis 18:1-22:24) Av-Raham

18:1-19 Angels at Mamre; 2nd annunciation
18:20-19:38 Destruction of the Cities of the Plain
20:1-18 Sarah sold to Avi-Melech of Gerar
21:1-21 Birth of Yitschak, expulsion of Hagar and Yishma-El
21:22-34 Well-treaty with Avi-Melech
22:1-19 The Akeda (the non-sacrifice of Yitschak)


Sedra Chayey Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18) Yitschak

23:1-20 Death and burial of Sarah
24:1-67 Eli-Ezer fetches Rivkah for Yitschak
25:1-11 Keturah; death of Av-Raham
25:12-18 Genealogy of Yishma-El


Sedra Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) Ya'akov and Esav

25:19-34 Birth of 
Ya'akov and Esav. The sale of the birthright.
26:1-35 Yitschak in Mitsrayim - another version of the Avi-Melech tale from Av-Raham.
27:1-28:9 The blessings of 
Ya'akov and Esav.


Sedra Va Yets'e
(Genesis 28:10-32:3) Ya'akov in exile

28:10-22 Ya'akov at Beit-El
29:1-30:24 Ya'akov's women
30:25-32:3 Lavan's sheep


Sedra Va Yishlach
(Genesis 32:4-36:43) Ya'akov returns

32:4-32:33 Penu-El
33:1-33:20 Return to Kena'an
34:1-31 Dinah and Shechem
35:1-15 Ya'akov at Beit-El; 2nd naming as Yisra-El; covenant
35:16-20 Death and burial of Rachel; birth of Bin-Yamin
35:29 Death of Yitschak
36:1-43 Toldot Esav


Sedra Va Yeshev
(Genesis 37:1-40:23) Yoseph & his brothers

37:1-36 Yoseph sold into Mitsrayim
38:1-30 Yehudah and Tamar
39:1-23 Yoseph and Poti-Phera
40:1-23 The butler and the baker


Sedra Mi Ketz
(Genesis 41:1-44:17Yoseph and his dreams

41:1-57 Pharaoh's dreams
42:1-44:17 The brothers in Mitsrayim


Sedra Va Yigash
(Genesis 44:18-47:27) Ya'akov in Mitsrayim

44:18-47:27 The brothers in Mitsrayim cont


Sedra Va Yechi
(Genesis 47:28-50:26) Ya'akov in Mitsrayim cont

47:28-50:26 Blessings and death of Ya'akov



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